Monty Python Influences

[Brian Cordova <blessedbrian@yahoo.com>]

  I knew that I had remembered a cockroach cluster reference in MP, 
so thank you for confirming it.  And being the MP fan that JKR is, 
she must have been overjoyed at John Cleese's being cast as Nearly 
Headless Nick in the movies!

  Another Brian (as in "Life of...")

   



--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Brian <bkb042 at y...>" 
<bkb042 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "sallygrist <sally at g...>" 
> <sally at g...> wrote:
> (Substantial snip)
> > Do the guys from Monty Python really know the full extent of 
their 
> > influence? And does anyone else know of any other unlikely 
> influences 
> > that they've stumbled upon?
> > 
> > Sally
> 
> Funny that you should ask.............
>  
> In the original Monty Python television show, there was a sketch 
> about blancmanges from the planet Skyron who attempted to win 
> Wimbledon by transforming everyone in England into Scotsman. The 
> first victim of these insidious attacks was a Mr. Harold Potter. 
> 
> Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more!
> 
> Brian