The Octuple Gloucester

Paul Ouderkirk pouderki at chat.carleton.ca
Thu Sep 4 09:34:31 CDT 1997


Brecher_Keith/mskcc_Neurology at mskmail.mskcc.org writes:
>         Let's face it. Even with its Buddha-nature intact, the Octuple 
>      Gloucester is still the worst joke of the year. And M&D, maybe the 
>      worst masterpiece. 

The Octuple Gloucester is quite possibly the funniest joke of the year.  I
mean, getting run over by a giant cheese!  I think those masters of
comedy, Monty Python, would have been hard pressed to come up with
something even approaching the comic power of that scene.

Later,
	Paul.
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Paul D. Ouderkirk            We are raised to honour all the wrong explorers
English Lit. II              and discoverers-- thieves planting flags,
Carleton University          murderers carrying crosses.  Let us at last 
                             praise the colonizers of dreams.
                                                    --Peter S. Beagle 
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