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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 98 points 10 months ago

Ancient Streisand Effect

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 53 points 10 months ago

How the fuck did they wojack the horse lmao

[-] skulbuny@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

The kids are alright

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 45 points 10 months ago

"You can cut that out, right?"

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

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Can do! But, won’t.

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

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

History is written by the historians.

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

This meme is top shelf.

[-] st33lb0ne@lemmy.world 9 points 10 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 10 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".

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Could have been improved by the left one being a crying soyjak, and the right one being a chad.

[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

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

We hear you loud and clear.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Chewget@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

The King Taejong effect, if you will

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

"I am not mad. Do not put it in the papers that I was mad."

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