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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 101 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago
[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How the fuck did they wojack the horse lmao

[–] skulbuny@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

The kids are alright

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess he didn't make a habit of reading what they wrote.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or couldn't read, and the scribes left it out when reading it out loud

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

I hope they put like a big asterisk next to it. What happens when the main guy is on vacation and there’s a scribe from out of town filling in for a few days. He gets like half way through the sentence while he’s reading out loud and then he’s like “oh…”

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"You can cut that out, right?"

"We can.... But we won't."

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm seeing John Cleese carrying a clipboard, alongside some hapless customer or client or something, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, but am unable to remember which sketch it was: "Ah! Yes. Can do... but won't!"

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Can do! But, won’t.

ETA: Looks to be from season 2, episode 2, The Spanish Inquisition.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Imagine that... someone made a clip of that exact line - and nothing else - on YouTube five years ago! Amazing. And thank you!

Ok, he's saying it to Graham Chapman, when my glitching memory saw Michael Palin or Terry Jones hazily... and erroneously.
From what I recall, Cleese is a sketch assembly supervisor or something meta like that, after the sketch is over he is denying giving a lift back to Chapman, having transported him to the sketch location in the first place.

And that's as far as my memory will take it. I can't remember what the sketch was, what comes before or after... zip. Nada. Zilch.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

It looks like you could wind that hat up with the little lever on the side, and then it would spin with the tassels flying outward.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago

History is written by the historians.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

This meme is top shelf.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

Then King Taejong said "I see you writing something down... are you writing down that I fell off the horse? Why are you still writing? Are you writing this down too? STOP WRITING! Ok fine. Write this down then..." after which he gave many compliments about my thoroughness which I'm too humble to recount.

[–] st33lb0ne@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Fast forward to 2024: ""Let me do the dumbest thing I can think of and film it for Tik Tok"

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Like those podcasts where someone bloops and the host says - "It's okay, we'll fix it in post [production]... just kidding, we don't do any post".

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Don't write that down. Do you hear me?

We hear you loud and clear.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Cambyses II, in the afterlife: "shit happens, bro"

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Could have been improved by the left one being a crying soyjak, and the right one being a chad.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 4 points 3 months ago

Should have just sung a Beatles song all the way through.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Any further reading on this? I don't know this story.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Excellent analogy.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wow. One of the comments on that post makes me wonder if it wasn't the historians themselves recording their identity as historians, when in fact they sound more like the royal press pool or even paparazzi; one "historian" only went with the king on a hunt by using a disguise. Kind of like how in a hundred years we will have a bunch of blog posts misidentified as journalism (burn).

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not the gaff, but the cover up.

[–] Chewget@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

The King Taejong effect, if you will