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yywwyy@mixcom.com (Steven Pearson) writes:

>	the mood for the clinton administration has been set.  
>	about five minutes before the president-elect became the president,
>	the band struck up the theme to monty python.  
>	be afraid.  

Once, long ago, before John Cleese or TV was even born, there was a
piece of music called "The Liberty Bell", a march by John Philip
Sousa.  Sousa's marches have long been used at patriotic celebrations,
and only occasionally for British comedy programs.

Along came Cleese, Chapman, Idle, et al., and TV, or telly, as the
Brits like to call it, and later the birth of the program called
"Monty Python's Flying Circus".  This phenomenal program was quite
funny, even on second and occasionally even third viewing, and hence
was quite popular with the masses.

Some of them liked it SO much that they decided it was the Canonical
comedy program, and thus rearranged causal relationships between
events and features of the programs in such a manner as to imply that
"Monty Python" (as they liked to call it) came first, and that other
things (such as Sousa marches and blancmanges) grew out of the
program.  Such items were then annexed by the ignorant masses, and
thus "The Liberty Bell" became "The Theme to Monty Python."

These people were, however, sadly mistaken.

In summary: *PLONK*

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Ben Cox
thoth@uiuc.edu