Daily Dialogue — September 11, 2016

“I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”

— Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), written by Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Eric Idle & Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones & Michael Palin

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Argument, suggested by Mark Twain.

Trivia: The French tactic of pelting Arthur and his knights with livestock echoes the relatively modern legend of a medieval siege of the fortified southern French town of Carcassonne. Said to have been near starvation, the townspeople used the last of their food to pelt the besieging army to convince them, suffering likewise, that the town was well stocked with food and that the siege was hopeless. The tactic was successful, and the siege was lifted.

Dialogue On Dialogue: As far as I’m concerned, one of the best cinematic arguments of all time. The whole bit is hysterical and no one screams invectives better than John Cleese.