The Fourth and Final Week of Pythonalia Honoraria,The Ministry of Connie Booth

 

Welcome to the Final week of our SUPER time, “Pythonalia Honoraria”.  This, our final week, will celebrate Connie Booth, who appeared in two seasons of the tele show and in all of the Python Movies as well.  Additionally, she also co-wrote Faulty Towers with John Cleese. 

Please open your Hymnal to page 3 and join in our processional  “O Lord Please Don’t Burn Us” Verse 1

O LORD, please don’t burn us,   Don’t grill or toast your flock,

Don’t put us on the barbecue,  Or simmer us in stock,

Don’t braise or bake or boil us,  Or stir fry us in a wok. 

Welcome to the Fourth and final week of our SUPER time, “Pythonalia Honoraria” this week we celebrate Connie Booth, the closest of all the Honorary Pythons, at least to John.  Now please open the Holy Text volume 1 to episode 9 page 115 where the prophets say …

Mounties Choir	He's a lumberjack, and he's OK, He sleeps all night and he works all day.
Barber	I chop down trees, I wear high heels, Suspenders and a bra. I wish I'd been a girlie Just like my dear Mama.
Mounties Choir	He cuts down trees, he wears high heels (spoken rather than sung)Suspenders and a .... a Bra????
	They all mumble. Music runs down. The girl looks horrified and bursts into tears.
Barber	...just like my dear Mama.
Girl (Connie Booth)	Oh Bevis! And I thought you were so rugged.
	Cut to hand-written letter.
Voice Over	Dear Sir, I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song which you have just broadcast, about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them are transvestites. Yours faithfully, Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.) PS I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.
Mounties Choir	He's a lumberjack, and he's OK, He sleeps all night and he works all day.
Barber	I chop down trees, I wear high heels, Suspenders and a bra. I wish I'd been a girlie Just like my dear Mama.
Mounties Choir	He cuts down trees, he wears high heels (spoken rather than sung)Suspenders and a .... a Bra????

 

Open your hymnal to page 14 and join us in reciting “Do What John?” entire

Do what John?
Come again do what?
Do what John?
Do what John?
Do what?
Do what?
Do where John?
Do where John?
Why, what, wiv whom and when?
Triffic, really triffic!
Pardon?
Come again?

Now let us recite from memory the words of the prophets when they say (Burn the witch) …

Villager: We have found a witch, may we burn her?

Crowd: BURN!! BUUUURN HER!

Bedevere: But how do you *know* she is a witch?

Villager: She looks like one!

Other Villagers: Yeah!  She looks like one!!!

Bedevere: Bring her forward.

 (a young woman is pushed through the crowd of villagers to the platform.  She is dressed all in black, has a carrot tied around her face on top of her nose, and a black paper hat on her head.  She talks funny because her nose is closed by the carrot.)

 Witch: I'm not a witch, I'm not a witch!

Bedevere: Er,...but you are dressed as one.

Witch: THEY dressed me up like this.

Villagers: No! nooo!  We didn't!  We didn't!

Witch: And this isn't my nose, it's a false one!

 (Bedevere lifts up the carrot to reveal the woman's real nose, which is in fact rather small.)

 

Homily  And … I give up.  I actually tried to find more good news this week, or even “goodish” news, but it is simply not there.  So I decided to go with an alert about your financial security, while there may be still time.  Just in case you live under a rock, Gold started this week at all time highs and went even higher as the Biden (Mis)Administration’s economic policies continue to implode (https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gold-dollar-surged-week-stocks-crypto-purged-reflation-ww3-risk-wreck-rate-cut-hopes).  Obama’s words ring loudly.

With such problems in mind I wanted to point out some knock on effects from this unfurling calamity.  The first of which is that Inflation is back (technically “reinflation”) and growing (https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/its-official-reflation-here).  And this means that everything is going to cost more, especially if there is a limited supply.  In particular the recent price surge in cocoa has been felt at easter and the same is now happening in coffee (https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/next-bean-hyperinflating-and-its-not-cocoa).  Cutting back on the Kids “antiquated” and “realigned” Holiday is one thing, but when mom and dad’s java doubles in price, me thinks “Heads are going to roll”! 

What I really wanted to alert you to though was another commodity that appears to be fueling to launch – silver (https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/silver-about-do-cocoa)!  According to the Bloomberg/FRED based charts used in the above article, you might want to look into buying some silver before it goes parabolic.  The trends are echoing the Hunt Brothers period from 1980.  Remember that when COSTOCO starts selling it, it is already too late to buy! 

Amen

Please join us in our recessional on page 3 of your hymnal “O Lord Please Don’t Burn Us” second verse. 

Oh Please don’t lightly poach us,  Or Baste us with hot fat,

Don’t fricassee or roast us,    Or boil us in a vat,

And please don’t stick thy servants, Lord,  In a Rotissomat.