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Ancient Streisand Effect

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The OG

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How the fuck did they wojack the horse lmao

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The kids are alright

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I guess he didn’t make a habit of reading what they wrote.

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Or couldn’t read, and the scribes left it out when reading it out loud

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I hope they put like a big asterisk next to it. What happens when the main guy is on vacation and there’s a scribe from out of town filling in for a few days. He gets like half way through the sentence while he’s reading out loud and then he’s like “oh…”

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“You can cut that out, right?”

“We can… But we won’t.”

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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!”

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Can do! But, won’t.

ETA: Looks to be from season 2, episode 2, The Spanish Inquisition.

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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.

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It looks like you could wind that hat up with the little lever on the side, and then it would spin with the tassels flying outward.

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