Anne Elk’s Theory On Brontosauruses
“... we haven’t had any accidents for months now...
Everything on that island is perfectly ne.”
–
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
“Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last
twenty-ve years, that a ying dragon was an impossible
monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world?
People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them ying dragons, after denying so long that ying dragons could exist.”
–
Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies
“They don’t have intelligence. They have what I like to call ‘thintelligence.’ They see the immediate situation. They think
narrowly and they call it ‘being focused.’ They don’t see the
surround. They don’t see the consequences. That’s how you get an
island like this. From thintelligent thinking.”
–
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO
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A walk around the fringes of nance
By Grant Williams
28 July 2014
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Contents
How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq ............................................................21Bubblenomics and the Future of Real Estate ......................................................23Have Central Banks Been Breaking the Law? ......................................................24A Tour of France: Examining the New Sick Man of Europe ......................................26Deutsche Bank, HSBC Accused of Silver Fix Manipulation .......................................28Billion-Dollar Billy Beane .............................................................................29Rebels With a Cause ...................................................................................31How the Hammer Falls As China Nails Corruption ................................................32“All the Conditions Are There for an Explosion” .................................................34
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Though they reunited this past month for a series of concerts at London’s O2 Arena, the cast of Monty Python last assembled onstage together at London’s Drury Lane Theatre a staggering 40 years ago.As they took to the stage at the O2 in early July, the surviving members of perhaps the most famous comedy troupe in history (sadly, Graham Chapman died in 1989) boasted a combined age of 357.As expected, neither of these facts deterred people
from ocking to see the Pythons; nor, it has to be said,
did the occasional “senior moment” on stage prevent rapturous critics from garlanding them with rave reviews.The centrepiece of the show was, of course, the famous “Parrot Sketch” in which John Cleese returns a dead Norwegian Blue parrot to “the very boutique” from whence it came “not ’alf an hour ago.”The sketch, written by Cleese and Chapman in 1969, took aim at the British fondness for euphemism (particularly as pertains to death) and (somewhat ironically, given the subject) became one of the most mimicked pieces of comedy ever conceived.The YouTube video I linked to above (just in case there is still anybody out there who HASN’T seen the “Parrot Sketch”) has 4.5 million views alone.However, buried in the Python’s canon of work lies another sketch which proved far less popular
amongst the viewing public but which found favour amongst (of all groups) the scientic
community.The sketch, “Anne Elk’s Theory on Brontosauruses,” appeared in the 31st episode of Monty Python’s
Flying Circus,
which was entitled “The All-England Summarize
Proust Competition”; and it featured Chapman as a
television interviewer and Cleese (in drag) as Miss Anne Elk, a paleontologist, who was in the studio to discuss her new, ground-breaking theory on the afore-mentioned dinosaurs.What followed when Elk was questioned about her theory is classic Python:
Presenter:
You have a new theory about the brontosaurus.
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