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. Year Six

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 Parishioners, This week I decided that the threat to all of humanity known as “AI” needed to be brought to your attention once again.  On the one hand tech companies proceed with reckless abandon at developing AI and perfecting robots to “take to the field” for AI.  It looks like the real company that will perform the function of “Skynet” will be called “Foundation” and it plans on having 50,000 ARMED robots in the field by 2027 (https://www.zerohedge.com/military/watch-russian-soldiers-surrender-gun-wielding-robot-humanoid-warfare-nears)!  Here is another article where the CEO of Foundation talks specifics with CNET (https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/cnet-goes-hands-on-with-foundations-phantom-humanoid-as-ceo-discusses-arming-robots).  The weapon load Foundation plans includes both conventional guns, as well as tasers and chemical grenades.  At least they have not developed a multi gigawatt laser yet. 

Naturally, no story about “robotpolosa” would be complete without an update from China.  A company in the land of Xi is advertising that you can own your own “robowolf” for the paltry sum of $73, 500, American (https://x.com/Sinical_C/status/2037463478584418434).  The “robowolf” can be equipped with a range of weapons including a submachine gun, a grenade launcher or a taser.  The “robowolf” is also capable of operating as a group if you were to buy more than one of them.  They automatically synch, so if you wish to purchase one now and more later, do not fear, the later additions will seamlessly integrate with the original model and then upload all the experiences of the original to the pack!  The designers say that the “robowolf” is particularly well adapted for the urban environment! 

Finally, for all those who say that concerns over a “robopocalypse” are hyperbole I would respond with this story.  It turns out that the two massive AWS systems outages that have happened this year were traced to have originated in the same thing, The company’s own AI systems attempted to reprogram the corporate system (https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d)!  I am sure that once all these armed robots are meandering about no AI system will ever attempt to reprogram them.  If they did, I am sure that all it would do is crash the system, no chance that generative AI could commandeer, its own army – RIGHT? 

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.