Carol wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/39957>: << still thinking about the pantomime horses (no horse costume involved) that she encountered in Monty Python >> To my surprise, and while looking for something else, I found that 'pantomime horse' is an entry in Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime_horse>