First, it’s suggested that a typical European swallow weighs 5 ounces and must beat its wings 43 times per second in order to maintain airspeed velocity. This is given as evidence that the bird could not, in fact, carry a 1-pound coconut.

It’s a simple question of weight ratios! A five-ounce bird could *not* carry a one-pound coconut! Arthur: (exasperated) Well it doesn’t matter!

A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut. ARTHUR: Well, it doesn’t matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.

A swallow will have a cone-shaped body that is 15 to 19 centimeters long and a flat head, without a visible neck. His wings are long and pointed, and his tail may be forked or notched. A sparrow has a stocky body 12 to 18 centimeters in length with a rounded head and tail, and broad wings.

The words “Monty Python” were added because they claimed it sounded like a really bad theatrical agent, the sort of person who would have brought them together, with John Cleese suggesting “Python” as something slimy and slithery, and Eric Idle suggesting “Monty”.

In the end, it’s concluded that the airspeed velocity of a (European) unladen swallow is about 24 miles per hour or 11 meters per second. But, the real question is not about swallows at all. King Arthur in the movie had two coconut shells that he banged together to simulate the sound of a horse galloping.

I’m invincible

English Language Learners Definition of Holy Grail : something that you want very much but that is very hard to get or achieve. : the cup that is said to have been used by Jesus Christ and that was sought by knights during the Middle Ages.

Monty Python’s

King Arthur: “What are you going to do, bleed on me?” French soldier: “I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.”

Graham Chapman

As the flowers age they take on a narcotic urine-like smell, that some find unappealing. The fresher the blossom, the less they smell. But, berries smell like berries. I have never smelled fresh elderberries but when opening a bag of dried, the aroma is distinctively a mix of rich fruit, grapes and blackberries.

Aralia spinosa

Berries are purplish-black, about 1/8” in diameter, growing in droopy umbrella-shaped clusters. They give off a musky odor.

Who’s The Richest Monty Python Cast Member?

• Terry Gilliam – £25.4million.
• Michael Palin – £12.7million.
• Eric Idle – £9.5 million.
• Terry Jones – £9.5million.
• John Cleese – £6.3million.
• Graham Chapman – N/A.

Michael Palin

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Only surviving members remaining now of The Monty Python are Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and John Cleese. The remaining four-piece joined forces with the now late Jones for a special live event in 2014 but Gilliam shut down the chance of the reunion ever taking place again.

Terry Jones

Deceased (1942–2020)

Following their television work, they began making films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983)….

You’ve heard it again and again, and then a couple more times: the Pythons hate each other. Even Entertainment Weekly ran a spread where they asked each one of the remaining Pythons who irritated them the most, and the responses seemed to speak for themselves.

By the end of December 1971, after a second series of 13 programmes, Monty Python had become a household name. Nevertheless, Palin tells his diary: “The split between John and Eric and the rest of us has grown. John and Eric see Monty Python as a means to an end — money to buy freedom from work.

The five surviving members of the famed British comedy troupe Monty Python – Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam – do not get along. “So you can see that we hate the Daily Mail slightly more than we hate each other,” added Palin.

John Cleese

Chapman died of tonsil cancer which spread to his spine in 1989, on the Pythons’ 20th anniversary. His life and legacy were commemorated at a private memorial service at St Bartholomew’s with the other five Pythons….