Ancient Streisand Effect
How the fuck did they wojack the horse lmao
The kids are alright
Don’t write that down. Do you hear me?
We hear you loud and clear.
“You can cut that out, right?”
“We can… But we won’t.”
I’m seeing John Cleese carrying a clipboard, alongside some hapless customer or client or something, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but am unable to remember which sketch it was: “Ah! Yes. Can do… but won’t!”
ETA: Looks to be from season 2, episode 2, The Spanish Inquisition.
Imagine that… someone made a clip of that exact line - and nothing else - on YouTube five years ago! Amazing. And thank you!
Ok, he’s saying it to Graham Chapman, when my glitching memory saw Michael Palin or Terry Jones hazily… and erroneously.
From what I recall, Cleese is a sketch assembly supervisor or something meta like that, after the sketch is over he is denying giving a lift back to Chapman, having transported him to the sketch location in the first place.And that’s as far as my memory will take it. I can’t remember what the sketch was, what comes before or after… zip. Nada. Zilch.
Then King Taejong said “I see you writing something down… are you writing down that I fell off the horse? Why are you still writing? Are you writing this down too? STOP WRITING! Ok fine. Write this down then…” after which he gave many compliments about my thoroughness which I’m too humble to recount.
I guess he didn’t make a habit of reading what they wrote.
Or couldn’t read, and the scribes left it out when reading it out loud
History is written by the historians.
Fast forward to 2024: "“Let me do the dumbest thing I can think of and film it for Tik Tok”
Any further reading on this? I don’t know this story.
The invention of Git
