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"His exact words were, 'Please, I don't want to be humiliated for centuries to come'" (lemmy.world)
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[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 97 points 2 months ago

Ancient Streisand Effect

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 50 points 2 months ago

How the fuck did they wojack the horse lmao

[-] skulbuny@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

The kids are alright

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 45 points 2 months ago

"You can cut that out, right?"

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

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Can do! But, won’t.

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

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 21 points 2 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 17 points 2 months ago

History is written by the historians.

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

This meme is top shelf.

[-] st33lb0ne@lemmy.world 9 points 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

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

We hear you loud and clear.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 2 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 2 months ago

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

[-] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Chewget@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

The King Taejong effect, if you will

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