Maybe I'll just declare it Monty Python week around here until everyone agrees to settle down. This is irresistible:

PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN: He's not dead.

EXPECTANT MEDIA: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.

WORLD: Yes he is.

PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN: He's not.

EXPECTANT MEDIA: He isn't.

WORLD: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.

I pretty much operate on the assumption that of course you get the reference because of course you memorized all your Monty Python sketches years ago, in much the way that one used to assume that of course people knew their Latin--anyway, if that isn't the case, the source is here.

Something about the whole Yasser thing must jibe naturally with Python sketches; here's Dr. DNA assuring the world that Arafat's just pining for the fjords.

Posted by Ilyka at November 9, 2004 03:22 PM in hell is other people