Welcome and Intro

Welcome to Dead Parrot Fan Club 4! We're glad you could make it! Do check out the other 3 groups by this name on other networks. We want you to do research to find out what is available as far as the scripts for the shows. what is everybody's favorite sketch. I have several. One, of course, is the nudge nudge wink wink sketch. Another is the I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay song. Still another is the Masons sketch, with John Cleese waiting for the bus wearing nothing but a Masonic apron and a pair of antlers. Then there is the sketch where they're asking people like Karl Marx, Socrates, and Chairman Mao questions about sports, and they know nothing about sports. Stephen's favorite sketch or group of sketches is the "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" What is your favorite soundtrack? Stephen's favorite is also "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay." What is your favorite movie? The Meaning of Life is Stephen's favorite movie and mine too. I like it all except for the exploding man sketch which makes me physically sick when I see it. Of course the one that takes the prize is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. . My favorite scene is the one where the two guys come along with the death cart calling "Bring out your dead!" Stephen likes the scene too. I like to call that out when I'm gathering all the trash and garbage into the garbage bag preparatory to taking out the garbage. Stephen's other favorite scene is, predictably, the Marxist-Leninist peasants discussing the class struggle and the violence inherent in the feudal system. Dylan's favorite sketch is the Dead Parrot Sketch. That is the reason I have named this group the way I have. It's kind of an in-joke between us, which we are letting the rest of you in on. I could just as easily have named it either The Knights Who Say Ni or Nudge Nudge Wink Wink. What are your favorite three scenes?

There is a lot of social commentary in Monty Python's comedy. Some of the comedy, we as Americans don't get the jokes because they involve political figures with whom we are unfamiliar. But all of us are familiar with Schopenhauer, Karl Marx, Mao Tsetung and Socrates, and then to ask them sports questions is funny and also a comment on the importance paid to sport is funny. Part of it is to laugh at ourselves and the social environment. This gave the Monty Python humor special humor because it was based on social tragedy. The Monty Python works with working class humor. As much as the Brits like to deny it, they have a class society. The Monty Python uses Cockney accents, and gutteral sounds like those guys with the hankies knotted around their heads.

OT question: How many bi-polar people are actually vessels for angels? Inspired by Supernatural and Stephen's completely weird warped fevered brain.

Dylan Cook has an internet radio show. It's principally for those in recovery, but he won't turn anyone away. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Dylan-Cook Mondays at 6 p.m. EDT. Tune in. I may be on the show as a featured guest soon, talking about my experiences with alcoholics. If you have experiences with anyone who is an addict, to alcohol, drugs, or any of the countless other things to which people can be addicted, you too can be interviewed, as he is desperate for guests. His Yahoo IM id is draconixdragonwing@yahoo.com. Contact him either in an email or on Yahoo IM and tell him you want to be on his show. If you are musical, you can also perform on his show. This could be your foot in the door to stardom.

Stephen has been offline since Wednesday, because either his line conked out or his DSL modem did. An AT&T man will be here this afternoon at 4 p.m. to locate the problem, and hopefully, to fix it. It's weird that he has this problem, because I live in the same house, and I don't. So I think it's a problem with his phone line or his modem. But his phone line is still operational, so call him at 916-455-2267 and arrange for a reading or class for just $31.95. With webcam and voice on Yahoo IM, Windows Live Msgr, or Skype, it's almost like being here. You can choose from a vast array of decks/methods/tools of divination or for the class, a myriad of topics in the area of magick. For those of you who cannot choose between a reading or a class, you can have both for just $59.90. How perfect is that? You can have a reading with a Tarot deck, and then you can have a class on Tarot, and find out how he does it. Or you can have two classes, or two readings as long as the two readings are on completely different and separate topics/questions. All fees/donations are to be deposited into his Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com. And be sure you spread around his Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496 around to everyone you know; friends, relatives, in-laws, neighbors, classmates, teachers, your kids' teachers, fellow parents, kids' bus drivers, your bus driver, co-workers, colleagues, bosses, and anyone else I might have left out. With this number, you get to Stephen directly, and he gets
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