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captainsblogMichael Palin: We apologise for the previous reference. It is from a series of apologies at the start of Monty Python's Previous Record related to said collection.
Norwegian Announcer : This waltz is the trontheim hammer dance, which is held every 25 minutes in the town of Trontheim, in which the old ladies are struck about the head with round sticks of clerdowl
John Cleese : We apologise for that short extract from the ‘Pleasures of the Dance’ which appeared on this record of Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ owing to the same administrative error which resulted in the first apology.
Right. All associated with the production of these apologies have now been sacked, and the true reason for all this Nor-weirdery can be revealed:
I've just begun reading my first-ever Norwegian novel. In English translation, but still:
This was a total library lark, when I didn't see a damn thing by anybody I recognised or wanted. It's described as a tale of a gardener with a near-fetish connection to the famed Lunar Module pilot of the Apollo 11 mission- who, of course, has his own Python connection.
Don't laugh; it's working for me so far. At least four "a-ha" phrases which probably worked better with all the original umlauts and strokes.
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Today began badly but ended well. A brief court hearing got delayed close to half an hour over someone bitching over the denial of a claim that, in total, would have received a $12.00 distribution, if that much. I seriously considered taking up a collection for her. There followed a series of out-of-the-black-and-blue communications from people I was totally not expecting to hear from today. I think they all worked out okay, since none of them responded to my relatively prompt replies.... yet.
But we just made a job offer to a new hire on our church staff who, we all think, has amazingly good potential for the very things we need the most. Plus she lists on her Facebook page that Jesus is her "Time Lord and Savior."
Fez, hope and love abide, these three.