I mentioned in the previous post that Voice of the Faithful New Jersey sounds suspiciously like a Monty Python skit from the movie “Holy Grail”. Here’s my reimagining of the scene between a bishop named “Arthur” and two Voice of the Faithful members:
ARTHUR: I am your bishop!
WOMAN: Well, I didn’t vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don’t vote for bishop.
WOMAN: Well, how did you become bishop, then?
ARTHUR: The Bishop of Rome, his arm clad in the purest shimmering damask, held aloft a crosier from the bosom of the cathedra signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry a crosier. That is why I am your bishop!
DENNIS: Listen. Strange men sitting on thrones distributing crosiers is no basis for a system of church government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical medieval ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well, but you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ‘cause some German bookworm threw a crosier at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went ‘round saying I was a cardinal just because some silk-clad bint had lobbed a staff at me, they’d put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up, will you? Shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!
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That came way too easily to you.
Just how many times have you watched that movie?
You don’t want to know.
“Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who.”
Just how many times have you watched that movie?
The African or the European cut?
Now, in true bettnet.com fashion, getting totally off the point of the original post:
My most watched movie is:
The Great Santini with Robert Duvall & Blythe Danner
I come from the moon, behind the clouds… UNANNOUNCED!
38 or so times….
Yes, I am a tool
Wow … the most times I’ve seen any movie is just 25.
I should probably specify, it’s THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, the film Orson Welles made right after finishing CITIZEN KANE.
Cor, Lancelot – It’s just a little rabbit!
Obviously MP fiction, Dom. A U.S. Bishop would have ignored them for forty years, or hired them to head up religious education in his diocese.
Perhaps Bishop Arthur should have said:
“I don’t want to talk to you, no more, you empty-headed animal, food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. You mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”
…but only if he’s French.
I thought it was, “…and your father REEKED of elderberry.”
Fetchez la vache.
Dinsdale, Diiinsdale!!!
My most watched movie is a tie between Star Wars, The Big Easy (fast forward through the scene where, uh, you know), and The Shoes of the Fisherman.