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Message no. 1
From: Geoff Skellams <geoff.skellams@*********.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Carp scene in Monty Python [was Re: Newbie Question]
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 16:37:15 +1000
On Shadowrun Discussion, Martin Steffens[SMTP:chimerae@***.IE] wrote:
> An animated item ends with a sign saying "And now, the Fish Slapping
> Dance".
<<<SNIP DESCRIPTION OF THE FISH SLAPPING DANCE>>>
> I don't remember if it was a carp, I tend to buy my fish cut in
> slices, but that has to be the source of the Thwap. It had me
> crippled with laughter for some time, specially with the fish scenes
> that followed :).

I heard somewhere that the Fish Slapping Dance is one of the classic
python indicator tests. If you show it to a person who has never seen
any Python at all and they crack up laughing, then it's a pretty fair
bet they will enjoy python. If they can't see the point, then chances
are they'll hate the rest of the stuff as well.

I don't think the fish were carp, but I could be wrong

cheers
G (who lost the plot laughing the first time I saw the fish slapping
dance sketch)

--
Geoff Skellams R&D - Tower Software
Email Address: geoff.skellams@*********.com.au
Homepage: http://www.towersoft.com.au/staff/geoff/
ICQ Number: 2815165

"That rates about a 9.5 on my weird-shit-o-meter"
- Will Smith in "Men in Black"
Message no. 2
From: Jett <zmjett@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Carp scene in Monty Python [was Re: Newbie Question]
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 03:22:02 -0400
Geoff Skellams wrote:
>
> On Shadowrun Discussion, Martin Steffens[SMTP:chimerae@***.IE] wrote:
> > An animated item ends with a sign saying "And now, the Fish Slapping
> > Dance".
> <<<SNIP DESCRIPTION OF THE FISH SLAPPING DANCE>>>
> > I don't remember if it was a carp, I tend to buy my fish cut in
> > slices, but that has to be the source of the Thwap. It had me
> > crippled with laughter for some time, specially with the fish scenes
> > that followed :).
>
> I heard somewhere that the Fish Slapping Dance is one of the classic
> python indicator tests. If you show it to a person who has never seen
> any Python at all and they crack up laughing, then it's a pretty fair
> bet they will enjoy python. If they can't see the point, then chances
> are they'll hate the rest of the stuff as well.
>
> I don't think the fish were carp, but I could be wrong
>
> cheers
> G (who lost the plot laughing the first time I saw the fish slapping
> dance sketch)
>
> --

What have we learned from this, boys and girls? Carpe carp. Seize the
carp.

--Jett

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"I'll make this clear, that I'm just here for backup. And to offer the
occasional advice or insult."
--Jett, on being an NPC

"Crushed to death IS natural. Walls fall on people and kill them all the
time. I just make the walls a little more aggressive about it!"
--Cinder the pyrokinetic/psi, on natural causes of death


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Message no. 3
From: "Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject: Re: Carp scene in Monty Python [was Re: Newbie Question]
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 22:46:25 -0300
At 03:22 16/07/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Geoff Skellams wrote:
>>
>> On Shadowrun Discussion, Martin Steffens[SMTP:chimerae@***.IE] wrote:
>> > An animated item ends with a sign saying "And now, the Fish Slapping
>> > Dance".
>> <<<SNIP DESCRIPTION OF THE FISH SLAPPING DANCE>>>
>> > I don't remember if it was a carp, I tend to buy my fish cut in
>> > slices, but that has to be the source of the Thwap. It had me
>> > crippled with laughter for some time, specially with the fish scenes
>> > that followed :).
>>
>> I heard somewhere that the Fish Slapping Dance is one of the classic
>> python indicator tests. If you show it to a person who has never seen
>> any Python at all and they crack up laughing, then it's a pretty fair
>> bet they will enjoy python. If they can't see the point, then chances
>> are they'll hate the rest of the stuff as well.
>>

I cracked up just from reading the thing's description.....

Bira

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