Terry Jones

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born

February 01, 1942 in Colwyn Bay, Wales, The United Kingdom

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male

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http://www.terry-jones.net/main.htm

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Humor, Entertainment

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Terence Graham Parry Jones is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter and actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team.

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Books by Terry Jones

Average rating: 3.85 · 10,747 ratings · 603 reviews · 83 distinct works

	Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book 3.95 avg rating — 3,917 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Goblin Companion 4.15 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Terry Jones, Alan Ereira 4.03 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams, Terry Jones, Marie-Catherine Caillava (Translator) 3.37 avg rating — 2,716 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery by Terry Jones, Alan Fletcher, Terry Dolan 3.85 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells: Based on Quentin Cottington's Journal of Faery Research by Terry Jones, Brian Froud 4.04 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Terry Jones' Barbarians by Terry Jones, Alan Ereira 3.85 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Saga of Eric the Viking by Terry Jones, Michael Foreman 4.00 avg rating — 91 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Terry Jones' Fairy Tales by Terry Jones, Michael Foreman (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 51 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Crusades by Terry Jones, Alan Ereira 3.98 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Series by Terry Jones

The Fantastic World of Terry Jones (3 books)
by Terry Jones, Michael Foreman (Illustrator)

4.16 avg rating — 61 ratings

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Quotes by Terry Jones

“What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”
― Terry Jones

tags: bush , bushism , grammar , politics , terrorism

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“Sarah: That's not fair!

Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?”
― Terry Jones

tags: labyrinth

7 people liked it

“Short or long to Goblin City?
The straight way's short
But the long way's pretty...”
― Terry Jones, Terry Jones' Fairy Tales

4 people liked it

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