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DM of the Rings LVIII:
It is a Silly Place
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Jaquandor once said this about quoting Monty Python at a Renaissance Festival, although this applies just as well to playing D&D:
[...] So it’s with nothing but love and heartfelt concern that I inform you that walking around shouting quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail like “I’m bein’ repressed!” and “Ni!” is the Renaissance Festival equivalent of shouting “Freebird!” at a rock concert. Don’t do this, folks. Wandering through a Renaissance Festival with your friends, pretending to debate the airspeed of an unladen swallow, is just shooting fish in a barrel. Don’t do it.
Having said that, just try to get through this part of the movie without thinking about it. I swear the old woman in panel six is just about to say, “There’s some lovely filth over here.”
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This really is like shooting fish in a barrel.
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There are now 96 comments. Almost a hundred!
“I can’t let you in while we, or anyone else is armed.” ROFLOLMCOMN (…milk coming out my nose)
I’m going to go and get a glass of water.
I don’t know how you do it. Another masterpiece!
Not comments about how the Romans, they go in the house?
Crud… that should be “No comments.”
Also, I just realized, it should be something about “The Rohan, they go in the house.”
(Defiantly): It says “Rohirrim go home!”
“=How= many Rohirrim?”
People they are called Rohirrim go to the house?
Surely John Cleese’s finest moment
But this is direction toward, isn’t it?
A moose bit me once…
No realli! I was Karving my initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given to me by Svenge
We apologize for the faults in the comments. Those responsible have been sacked. The comments have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
When I was in Latin, I had a bad moment while watching Life of Brian. “You want the imperative, you fool!” I was actually correcting his grammar before Cleese…
Actually, not once during any of the LOTR movies did any MPFC dialog make itself felt inside Mr Brain. It must be an age thing (born before MP&THC). Either that, or repeated exposure to the Lego version of Holy Grail (it’s in the extra features) works the need out of you.
When it’s done with Lego, its done for good.
I’m kind of surprised though that Legoless didn’t try the “Ni!” ploy when they got surrounded by Rohirrim back in “The Name Game”.
Steve.
Oh, I’m such a sucker for the whole melodrama thing, I was too busy going “Ooh! Ahh!” to even *think* any such thing.
That said, I am going to have a LotR marathon, and I think we’ll ban MP quotes *except* at Edoras.
Steve, no MP twinges at all? Not even during the Lurtz/Aragorn “It’s only a flesh wound” fight?
WORMTONGUE: “Kill them!”
LEGOLAS: “Aha… !”
DM: “No, please… no!”
Fetchez la vache!
When Sam and Frodo climbed into Shelob’s cave, they should have known something was up. “Lookit the bones, man!”
And soon they’ll be forced to eat their minstrils…
And there shall be much rejoicing.
(if they had any minstrils, that is)
Aw, you missed a good punchline.
“Can I trust you guys not to quote Monty Python?”
“Yes! GET ON WITH IT!”
In fact, according to one of the Lord of the Rings fan club magazines, even Peter Jackson and company were desperately resisting the urge to make Holy Grail references during the filming at Edoras.
It’s just too easy.
this was produced by word llamma press. a llamma bit my sister once….
Mind you, llamma bite can be nasti.
We apologise again for the fault in the comments. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
Right! Right! This is getting silly. Move along, move along, nothing to see, nothing to see.
Director Shamus! Now… a close up on my comment… good, good. Closer… there. Now… write the next post! Aaaaaaaand… post it!
I think the humor on xkcd would appeal to people who like DMotR too, so I figured it made sense to point out:
http://xkcd.com/c16.html
Me brain hurts.
Seriously, tho, the only thing I could think of when they were encountering Shelob was, “Where’s Harry Potter when you need him?”
And now it’s time for the penguin on top of your telly to explode.
Now, I would just like to point out that this thread is displaying a distinct tendency to become SILLY. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do… except, perhaps my wife… and some of her friends. Oh, yes, and Captain Johnson. Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that’s beside the point! I’m warning this thread NOT to get SILLY again! Right!
I swear the old woman in panel six is just about to say, “There’s some lovely filth over here.”
Bow to the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of Putrescence! Boo! Boo! Rubbish! Filth! Slime! Muck! Boo! Boo! Boo!
“Bow to the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of Putrescence! Boo! Boo! Rubbish! Filth! Slime! Muck! Boo! Boo! Boo!
”
A quote from “The Princess Bride”, right ? It’s in a dream of the main character if I recall correctly. Good movie. Watched it 3 times as a kid.
You KNEW this comic was going to spawn a crapload of stupid Python quotes, didn’t you?
“Stupid Python quotes”??
No such thing.
(No one ever quotes the stupid lines like, “But it’s my only line!”)
Hehe, that was great. :)
Keep it up.
“Not much call for it ’round here.”
“But, but it’s the single most popular cheese in the WORLD!”
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Unfortunately, it has chosen the obvious hiding place of between this post that the post two previous to this one.
Boom.
[Meru] Nope. I guess I’ve just had long enough to work the “spontaneous Holy Grail quote” thing out of my system (I am nearly as old as Gandalf and saw the movie at University when it was on general release).
Plus, I’d been waiting so long for LOTR to be competently visualised as a movie (or three) and was so gobsmacked that Jackson’s vision of the scenery was at once so different to mine yet so in accord with it that I never paused to ruin it with a “Rocky Horror” moment.
I’ve only run the DVDs once though, so there’s plenty of time for a change of heart.
Shamus’s version is, of course, a travesty and he should be roundly thrashed for making fun of what is sure to become a cultural icon. No thrashing is too good for him! We should make him into a ladder!
Steve.
That should read: No COMMA thrashing is blah blah dribble drool. Another victory for Mr Brain.
Right now, I am resisting the urge to quote Dennis, because I am 37. And have been mistaken for a woman from a distance. By someone not covered in s**t.
Barely resisting.
I’ll use the line ONCE before I turn 38, and have done with it. It’s part of my – -
my –
Idiom, my liege?
But it occurs to me that the mutual pleasure principle applies to both D&D and MP’sTHGrail. I mean, there are more women playing D&D by now, but at first there were mostly men (some giving life to female NPCs) wandering about looking for a quest/something to hack with their sword/running away from the higher ECL beasty.
That, and that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
Having endured the horrid snuff film of Mel Gobson’s Christ “story”, did any of you go back and watch the Life of Brian again? I still love that one for its darker than dark humour.
Now, go and boil your bottoms!
Um, left an unfinished note and posted by accident.
I think I looked forward to being serious AND silly, like the Pythons or like the Goblins, which I knew about from TV version of the Hobbit, and watching PBS evening broadcasts of the Flying Circus all got mashed up in me brain. Later, I read all of Tolkien’s Middle Earth works, lots of SciFi (Hello, Gamma World and Cyberpunk!), so it’s never going to be easy to reference oddness in pop culture among nerdly folk. It’s part of our collective experience to do and say goofy things.
Like read DM of the rings….Love it!
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A larch
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A larch
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A larch
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A spoon sir
“What?”
We found a spoon sir.
This is the funniest yet in a very funny series which I have been enjoying and turning my friends on to. Thank you so much for writing it!
Steve Says:
Shamus’s version is, of course, a travesty and he should be roundly thrashed for making fun of what is sure to become a cultural icon. No thrashing is too good for him! We should make him into a ladder!
Oh! Spanking?! Spank *me*! and then…
(someone had to say it! you all know what comes next!)
Still chuckling,
S
These frogs with their terrible prattle, are fighting a battle with cattle, we’re all full of fear so let’s get out of here, run away run away run away.
I’m kinda loking forward to the battle of Helm’s Deep. If the DM says no quoting, you can bet there’s gonna be quoting.
And now for something completely different.
*worships Shamus* All hail the Bandit King!
First one who gets THIS quote gets a cookie.
Now you see the Python inherent in the system… Come see the Python inherent in the system! Help .. Help the comments digress!
Blessed be Sane Gus! Speak up! Oh.. it’s Shamus.. Blessed be Shamus..
A quote from “The Princess Bride”, right ? It’s in a dream of the main character if I recall correctly. Good movie. Watched it 3 times as a kid.
…
What?
Only 3? That’s it?
You poor, poor man. I am soooo sorry. : ( My deepest sympathies on your lack of a proper childhood!
And Sarah… we can’t say it, it’s much too perilous.
I can just see it… at th battle of minus whatever (As the charecters might call it), They are day-dreaming and think that the catipulted chunks of granite are cows.
oops… marble
“Well, but you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some elven tart threw a sword at you!”
Or maybe:
Legolas: “This is an ex-Mumak!”
Gimli: “It still only counts as one…”
(What have you started?) :-)
Think back to the fight with the Orcs where Boromir dies defending the hobbits.
Think back to him taking one dramatically-timed arrow after another from the lead Orc.
Wait for the dramatic timing immediately after the first arrow.
“Message for you, sir!”