German Monty Python Trivia
 

#1360

The two German episodes are available on VHS (in PAL and NTSC formats) from Guerilla Films (see http://www.guerilla-films.com/mp/fz.htm ) and are on 2 separate DVDs, in two unrelated box sets, in North America, from A&E.

In 1998, a script book, in German, of JUST the two German episodes (from 1971 and 1972) was released. You can get a used copy from amazon.de.

MORE German Monty Python Trivia
 

#1361

In German Episode one, the announcer at the beginning was the then chief female announcer/presenter of the WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) TV network (her name is Claudia Doren).

There are several references to Albrecht Dürer (A personal favorite artist of mine). In every case, the year of his death is wrong. The program gives it as 1530. He actually died in 1528.

Thomas Woitkewitch (who produced episode #2) translated the Lumberjack Song into German (the song is sung by Michael Palin, in German, in episode one. To this day he says he could still recite it. It was released on a CD single in Europe in the early 90s, and appears in the Monty Python Song Book). It is the ONLY appearance of any previously written material in either of the two German episodes.

#1362~Sleeping Beauty slept 100 years.

#1363~The game that is the biggest money-maker for Las Vegas casinos is craps.

#1364~Rin Tin Tin was voted most popular film performer of 1926.

#1365~Lightning strikes the Empire State Building more than 50 times a year.

#1366~Cleopatra was also known as the Serpent of the Nile.

#1367~The Soviet Union suffered the most combat deaths in WWII.

#1368~British spy novelist Ian Fleming wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

#1369~Wilt Chamberlain played professional volleyball after professional basketball.

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Just back from the beach and I have one smelly dog with me!

Housework be damned! We're going to watch movies instead!

#1371~Remove any queen from the card deck to play Old Maid.

#1372~Speaking of the Empire State Building, it stands on the site of New York's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

#1373~Each player in a game of checkers starts with twelve men. (Why can't that be true for real life?) :D

Checkers is 12 "men" and Chess is 15 (not counting the queen, of course).
Hmm. Queen surrounded by 15 guys.
I'll leave that to your imaginations.

#1374

I'd already left that to my imagination, dadaist. Hence my post, above. :D :p :D

#1375

Except there's no queen in Checkers, only Chess.

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that is why I added a disclaimer at post 1194 :)

"OK... done with the "facts"... more likely factoids."

#1378~Yes, dadaist, but when *I* play checkers, there's one woman and 12 men. :D

1379

Waiting for the Simpsons to end so we can watch a movie. Tyler likes the Simpsons more than anyone I know. I also know we say this episode not long ago but he denies it. Oh well, a bit more time to surf before the movie.

1380

"Honey, if it's not Hammer Time, what time is it?"

Why is my boyfriend so weird? :D

#1381~ Strains of M.C. Hammer now floating through her brain~

#1382~Our "favorite positions" are back!

I think I liked it more without them :(

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Why is that, MT?

it looked a lot less cluttered over there without it...

and I kind of agree with Lixy (post 1102 in this thread) that people would ask/look at the profile if they were really interested...


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By my calculations, at you current rate of posting it will take you 23.12395 years to reach one million posts in this thread. For what it is worth this is post #1386.

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So... we are already doing better than before :D

time to go find some dinner

1389

Wow, that is some depressing news...

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Come on! Let's get the estimates under a decade! :)

#1395 and one more post

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1397:devil:

good idea scarecrow... time to put the new smilies to use
:wingang:

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