Python (Monty) Post
Either everyone or no one has noticed this before.
As you might have guessed, or may be able to infer, two of my guiltiest pleasures are words and reading a high level of significance into small matters.
Case in point, the Anagram link on the side.
I’ve said in a thousand times: My name’s an anagram of DENIAL. Explains an awful lot.
I play with letters like that. Boggle, Scrabble, FowlWords (old online chicken word game). Even outside of game situations. It’s no way to live, and I’ve cut it back from an addiction to an occasional treat.
So. I was looking at a Monty Python DVD the other day. It was sitting on my desk, and I glanced at it quickly while typing at my computer.
For whatever reason, the “P” was slightly larger than the rest of the letters, as I saw it.
For reasons I mentioned earlier, I played with the image in my head.
I looked at the “P”, and peripherally saw the “y” to its right. Fantastic.
Then I thought, wait, the letter to the left of the P is also Y.
Could it..? NO, different letters. But wait…
A PROOF OF THE UN-ABSURDITY OF “MONTY PYTHON”
1. Let’s rewrite “Monty Python” as one word, “montypython.”
To recreate my visualization, let’s capitalize the P, as the
fulcrum around which the other letters form: “montyPython.”
2. Let’s note that “Python”, backwards, is “nohtyP”.
3. Let’s line up the backwards word: nohtyP
…………..with the finished product: montyPython
4. Let’s consider that the (n-m) shift and the (h-n) shift, from the
first and third letters of the top word to the bottom, are tiny,
easily managed, and significant changes.
5. Let’s acknowledge Monty Python’s awareness of palindromes,
as heard in their “Parrot Sketch”:
C: I understand this is Bolton.
PSMB: Yeah.
C: You told me it was Ipswich.
PSMB: It was a pun.
C: A pun?
PSMB: No, no, not a pun. What’s that thing that spells the same
backwards as forwards?
C: A palindrome?
PSMB: Yeah!
C: It’s not a palindrome! The palindrome of Bolton would be
“Notlob”! It don’t work!
(Copied from http://www.wepsite.de/Parrot%20Sketch.htm)
6. Let’s agree that:
a) the name of the group is a modified palindrome.
b) the name is too silly for this to be a coincidence, and is thus
an intentional instance of nomenclature.
c) this name demonstrates a rationality beneath the silliness.
QED.
Good to be back.
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