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Re: "You Might Be an Engineer If..."

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Originally Posted by Beth Sweet
If you can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie
I want a clarification on this one. Depending how the sentence is parsed, this could mean "If you can quote a scene from at least one Monty Python movie" or "If you can quote at least one scene from every Monty Python movie." Is the correct interpretation the first one or the second.

Actually, never mind, it really doesn't matter.

-dave


"Oooohhhh, I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day..."

"It's only a flesh wound! Come back you pansy!"

"I heard he nailed your head to the floor?" "Yeah, well I deserved it, didn't I? After all, I had broken the unwritten law."

"We are three wise men." " Well, what are you doing creeping around a cow shed at two o'clock in the morning? That doesn't sound very wise to me."

"There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all." "Uh, well, one." "Oh, yeah, yeah, there's one. But otherwise, we're solid."

"Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite."

"It is the middle of the dark ages, ages darker than anyone had expected."

"Dead? That's no excuse for laying off work."

"Dear Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence."
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