John Cleese may run for mayor of Santa Barbara ("And now for something completely different...")

AZCentral.com / Arizona Republic ^ | 12.16.03

[Renfield]

Centurion: What's this then? Romanes eunt domus? People call around marnays they go the house?
Brian: It...it says: "Romans go home."
Centurion: No, it doesn't.
Brian: Aih.
Centurion: What's Latin for Romans? Come on!
Brian: Aih! Aah! Romanus!
Centurion: Goes like...?
Brian: Anis?
Centurion: Vocative plural of anis is...?
Brian: Ani?
Centurion: Romani...Eunt? What is eunt?
Brian: "Go"! De...
Centurion: Conjugate the verb "go"!
Brian: Aah...ere, eo, is, it, imus, itis, eunt.
Centurion: So eunt is...?
Brian: Aah, ehm...third person plural present indicative. Ehm..."they go".
Centurion: But "Romans go home" is an order, so you must use the...?
Brian: Aih! Imperative!
Centurion: Which is...?
Brian: Ehm, oh...oh, ehm...i, i!
Centurion: How many Romans?
Brian: Aah! it's...plural, plural! Ite! Ite!
Centurion: Ite.
Brian: Aah, ah.
Centurion: Domus? Nominative?
Brian: Ah, ah?
Centurion: "Go home", this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?
Brian: Ehm...ehm...dative sir?
Sword: [Slinskt]
Brian: Aih! Ooh! Not dative, not the dative, sir! Nah, aah! Ooh! The...accusative! Accusative! Aah! Domum, sir! Ad domum! Aah, ooh!
Centurion: Except that domus takes the...?
Brian: Aah! The locative, sir! Aah!
Centurion: Which is...?
Brian: Domum! Aah, ah, aah...
Centurion: Domum...um. Understand?
Brian: Yes, sir!
Centurion: Now, write that a hundred times!
Brian: Yes, sir! Thank you, sir! Hail Caesar, sir!
Centurion: Hail Caesar! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
Brian: Oh, thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! Hail Caesar and everything, sir! Aah. Mmh! Aah... Finished! Aah.

(For those of you who aren't Anglophiles, this is a dig at British boarding schools....)

[savedbygrace]

I'm serious. My daughter told me that she heard Cleese tell this story. Hard to tell when he's serious, though.

[AndrewB]

Bouzouki players will not be amongst his supporters. He can expect the support of the dance community, however since he delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean Muse.

[Zack Nguyen]

Whatever happened to Manuel? Is he still in acting? He was hilarious.

"[Ahem] I know NOTHEENG!"

[Atlas Sneezed]

It's awfully runny...

[tang-soo]

I'd vote for him as Minister of Silly Walks. Mayor is a bit much.

[annyokie]

Santa Barabara was very conservative when I lived there. Lots of millionaires and real estate tycoons.

[tang-soo]

Sorry for the redundancy!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If he runs as a Democrat, "Bring out your dead!" will become a reality...

[blau993]

Now that you mention it, was it Santa Barbara where Clint Eastwood used to be mayor, or do I have my towns mixed up?

[annyokie]

That was Carmel. Fess Parker runs the council to develope the East Beach in Santa Barbara---The Futeres Foundation.

[annyokie]

Futeres=Futures-----Apparently, I was having an French attack.

[PoorMuttly]

Spotted Owl Stretching Time

[wizardoz]

"Yes, we're just out of Waldorf..."

[wizardoz]

"Last April, Cleese met with a group of eminent social scientists and economists ," Ceci said. At the meeting, the researchers discussed their work with Cleese. "The uniform reaction afterwards was that [the researchers] felt as if they were dealing with a colleague rather than an entertainer. He's an extremely intelligent man and it comes through when he asks questions about research."

Uh-oh.

Joe Thomas, associate dean of academic affairs, evinced similar sentiments. "He is humorous, of course, but he is also highly intelligent and an astute observer of the world in which we live," Thomas said.

Okey-dokey.

[wizardoz]

Oi don't loike spam!!

[AndyTheBear]

Ni!

That term is now been changed to:

"Ecky Ecky Ecky, Kabaaaaaaang ZoOOOoot Boing"

[stanz]

Spam for breakast, spam with eggs, spam sandwiches, spam chili, roasted spam, spam filets, spam cutlets, spam meatballs, spam salad, spam for dinner, spam cakes, spam hash,spam burgers, spam snacks,spam with crackers, spam souffle, spam pot pie, spam pizza,,,,what's not to loike?

[steve50]

I'm a fairly big Python freak and didn't know that. Thanks Flash