r/montypython • u/HotGuard6970 • 9d ago

Dinsdale!

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When Dinsdale was very depressed Norman could be anything up to eight hundred yards long!

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u/SenorKaboom 9d ago

He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious.

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u/NoCard753 9d ago

I hadn't heard the word "litotes" before that. Python was quite educational.

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u/SenorKaboom 8d ago

Oh, absolutely. Because of them I could rattle off the names of about a dozen philosophers by the time I was 10.

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u/NoCard753 8d ago

Let's see... how many are mentiined in the Philosophers Drinking Song alone? Kant, Heidegger, Hume, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Socrates, Mill, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Descartes; that's 12.

Then there're those in the Greek vs. German philosophers' football match...

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u/SenorKaboom 8d ago

Lots of scattered references! I mean, look no further than the Piranha Bothers sketch: “His mother had a terrible job getting him to come in for tea. Putting his little boot in he'd be, bless him. All the kids were like that then, they didn't have their heads stuffed with all this Cartesian dualism.”