[Paleo Conservative]

You can't make this stuff up.

[Paleo Conservative]

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[dennisw]

He could have rented a car much cheaper. But it’s a good publicity stunt that they (must have) cooked up over cocktails.

[PLD]

I have to laugh at this and only, because I was watching FOX this morning and the People giving the news mentioned the Volcano, and then added there are people paying up to five thousand dollars for a cab ride back home since the planes are grounded..Why didn't they just say John Cleese paid that instead of trying to build it up to lots of people..

[Theo]

I bet the taxi driver was thrilled for that job!

I love rich people. I’m not wealthy, but appreciate how rich people can stimulate the economy in honest free enterprise ways.

[Daffynition]

He could have walked.

[supremedoctrine]

I’M glad he didn’t ask Sarah Palin for advice, because he’s already trashed her like the good Euro-Lefty he is, and she
might’ve said “Just stay where you are. Everything will be all right.After all, it’s an ‘expanding universe’.”

[xp38]

Cleese to Taxi dispatcher....Ah my fine man...I am feeling a need to peregrinate but not on foot mind you!

[Thane_Banquo]

Typical Cleese. Antics like this are what makes him who he is.

[surfer]

Had relatives that were stuck in Vegas after 9/11...they bought a new car, drove it back home and then sold it.

[Willie Green]

You can't make this stuff up.

It makes sense to me....
It wouldn't be very safe to let an idiot like this drive his own rental car anyway.

[CodeToad]

I once missed the last train home one night from London. It costs me 125 pounds, or $250 to get home and that was 25 years ago. Drunk and stupid is no way to miss a train.

[Finatic]

Its simple folks, no car - no freedom.

Why do you think the regime is bent on getting us out of our cars and into public transportation.

[The Great RJ]

If some entrepreneurs could get a cruse ship to the UK they could do a brisk business in trans Atlantic crossings.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

"We checked every option but there were no boats and no train tickets available. That's when my fabulous assistant determined the easiest thing would be to take a taxi."

Must have been a 'water taxi' then.

Or am I missing something here?

[dfwgator]

Looks like life imitated art for Cleese.

BTW this is a great movie if you haven't seen it.

[racing fan]

(in London outside headquarters)

Mata Bond: How do I get to Berlin?

Hadley: Dear silly me, taxi.

Taxi driver: Where to?

Hadley: Berlin

(they walk to taxi)

Taxi driver: East or West?

Mata Bond: West, of course.

Taxi driver: Oh, thats alright then.

from the motion picture Casino Royale (1967)

[Radix]

Heck,

the Three Stooges took a taxi all the way to Egypt....or did you forget?

http://www.threestooges.net/transcripts.php?action=view&id=64

[Manic_Episode]

Somewhere around 15 years ago I saw a British documentary where a couple ordered a taxi from London and when the driver asked where they were going they replied "Bangladesh" and they proceeded to travel to India until they ran out of road about a month later racking up as I remember about a $100,000 fare.

Quite an interesting ride.