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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