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Monty Python


If you are a computer scientist, you must, repeat, must, know Monty Python. It is required knowledge.


  • If you do not know about Monty Python, the links and videos below will help you get a sense of
  1. their humor
  2. their influence on the world of computer programming, computer technology, and computer jargon.



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Meet Eric Idle


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The Dead Parrot


From wikipedia:

The Dead Parrot sketch, alternatively and originally known as the Pet Shop sketch or Parrot Sketch, is a popular sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, one of the most famous in the history of British television comedy.[1][2] It was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman and first performed in the eighth episode of the show's first series ("Full Frontal Nudity", 7 December 1969)...

Spam

From wikipedia:

"Spam" is a popular Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every dish. The term spam (in electronic communication, and general slang) is derived from this sketch.[1]
It features Terry Jones as The Waitress, Eric Idle as Mr. Bun and Graham Chapman as Mrs. Bun. The televised sketch also featured John Cleese as The Hungarian and Michael Palin as a historian, but this part was left out of audio recordings of the sketch.
The phenomenon, some years later, of marketers drowning out discourse by flooding Usenet newsgroups and individuals' email with junk mail advertising messages was named spamming, due to some early internet users that flooded forums with the word "spam"[2] recounting the repetitive and unwanted presence of Spam in the sketch. This phenomenon has been reported in court decisions handed down in lawsuits against spammers - see, for example, CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc., 962 F.Supp. 1015, n. 1 (S.D.Ohio 1997).
The Python programming language, named after Monty Python, prefers to use spam and eggs as metasyntactic variables, instead of the traditional foo and bar.

Ministry of Silly Walks


From wikipedia:

"The Ministry of Silly Walks" is a sketch from the Monty Python comedy troupe's television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 14, which is entitled "Face the Press". The episode first aired in 1970. A shortened version of the sketch was performed for Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. This sketch involves John Cleese as a bowler hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing Silly Walks through grants. Cleese, throughout the sketch, walks in a variety of silly ways (including one that briefly imitates the scissor gait of spastic diplegia), and it is these various silly walks, more than the dialogue, that has earned the sketch its popularity. Cleese has cited the physical comedy of Max Wall, probably in character as Professor Wallofski, as important to its conception.


Finding a Witch


From Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this skit uses questionable logic to determine if someone is a witch. (Start 50 seconds in.)

Three Questions


From Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this skit introduces more entertaining questioning. (Start 1 minute in)

Silly Job Interview


From Monty Python's Flying Circus - Hopefully not related to any job interviews you will ever have


The Penguin on the Television Set


Some more interesting logic, (Start 2 minutes in, and end at 4:45)