Instead Of A Blog Post Today Let’s Have Something Completely Different

Instead of a blog post today, let’s just look at this section from a classic Monty Python sketch (“The golden age of ballooning“):

Louis: Right! OK! Let’s get ‘em.

(He and his two dukes are suddenly galvanized into action. They are about to grab the plans when Joseph enters, clad only in a towel and rather silly bath hat.)

Joseph: Just a moment!

Jacques: Joseph!

Joseph: (indicating the king) This man is not Louis XIV!

Jacques: Joseph! Are you out of your mind!

Joseph: I’ve been looking it up in my bath. Louis XIV died in 1717. It’s now 1783! Answer me that!

Louis: Did I say Louis XIV? Oh, sorry, I meant Louis XV… Louis XV.

Joseph: He died in 1774!

(Louis, getting rather hot and angry, comes over to Joseph belligerently.)

Louis: All right, Louis XVI!… listen to me, smartarse, when you’re King of France,… you’ve got better things to do than go around all day remembering your bloody number.

(Putting his face very close to Joseph’s. He butts him sharply and viciously on the bridge of the nose with his forehead in the time-honoured Glaswegian way.)

Joseph: Aaaaaarh!

(He reels away, clutching his nose in agony. Louis approaches Jacques, equally belligerently.)