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- From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Archie Pittigrew's Testicles
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.110222.18901@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:02:21 GMT
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- hillman@triton.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
- >[I wrote]
- >>
- >>>|> "Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
- >>>|> sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
-
- [regarding dear old Archie Pettigrew, man of legend and quick wit]
-
- >The quote is from the sketch "Murder at Moorstones Manor" by Michael Palin
- >and Terry Jones. The book in my hands says "Scripts of a television
- >comedy performed on the BBC in 1976 and 1977" under the Library o' Congress
- >description and "Adventure...Terror...Mystery...Frogs..." on the back.
- >
- >Palin, M., & Jones, T. (1978). *Ripping yarns*. New York: Pantheon Books.
- >ISBN 0-394-73678-8
-
- Several others have pointed me to this series, but I haven't been able to find
- a copy of the original "Ripping Yarns" at my local video parlour yet.
-
- I'm wondering whether Mssrs Jones and Palin (in good UL tradition) stole the
- line from somewhere else, but I guess we'll give them the benefit of the doubt
- for now and credit them with the line.
-
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- "Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
- sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
- --from "Murder at Moorstones Manor", circa 1976
-