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But perhaps some day I'll stay at the Hotel Kessler.

Harvey Korman passed away today. I wasn't a big fan of the Carol Burnett show, but man, Korman was a funny guy.

That's my excuse, and I'm sticking with it.

I always thought that saying had some sort of hidden meaning, but apparently it's so obvious I really didn't need to look it up:

The slang term 'qt' is a shortened form of 'quiet'. There's no definitive source for the phrase 'on the q.t.', although it appears to be of 19th century British origin - not, as is often supposed, American. The longer phrase 'on the quiet' is also not especially old, but is first recorded somewhat before 'on the qt', in Otago: Goldfields & Resources, 1862:

"Unless men can work [the gold] on 'the quiet', they are not likely to make 'piles' so rapidly as Messrs. Hartley and Riley."

And the people have spoken. Either I don't have a good "moustache face" or I don't have a good "face moustache" or both. So I have rotated the whisker acres once more, and am clean shaven.

But to haunt your dreams, the floating stache!

I promise this will be my last post about Monty Python this week. (No I didn't!) If you'd like a giggle the scripts are online to read here. Here's a random bit from the second season:

Linkman (very excited): Hello and welcome to 'Election Night Special'. There's great excitement here as we should be getting the first results through any minute now. We don't know where it'll be from...it might be Leicester or from Luton. The polling's been quite heavy in both areas... oh, wait a moment...I'm just getting...I'm just getting a loud buzzing noise in my left ear. Excuse me a moment. (he bangs ear and knocks a large bee out) Uuggh! (cheering from crowd). Anyway, let's go straight over to James Gilbert at Leicester.

Shot of returning officer in front of a group consisting half of grey-suited, half of silly-dressed candidates and agents. The silly ones are in extraordinary hats, false noses etc.

Voice Over Well it's a straight fight here at Leicester...On the left of the Returning Officer (camera shoes grey-suited man) you can see Arthur Smith, the Sensible candidate and his agent, (camera pans to silly people) and on the other side is the silly candidate Jethro Walrustitty with his agent and his wife.

Officer Here is the result for Leicester. Arthur J. Smith...

Voice Over Sensible Party

Officer 30,612...Jethro Q. Walrustitty...

Voice Over Silly Party

Officer 32,108.

Cheering from the crowd. Cut back to studio.
Linkman (even more excited) Well, there's the first result and the Silly Party has held Leicester. What do you make of that, Norman?

Cut to Norman. He is very excited.

Norman Well, this is largely as I predicted, except that the Silly Party won. I think this is largely due to the number of votes cast. Gerald?

No cheating. I'll know if you look at the source.

A few weeks ago I snuck Monty Python and the Holy Grail into our NetFlix queue. This is one of the silliest movies of all time, and also one of my favorite comedies, and it had been quite a while since I had watched it, and I thought our oldest would enjoy it.

Of course, she was not happy that I had knocked some other movie she wanted to see back further in the queue, so she started with a chip on her shoulder. Plus, it was an old movie. 1975? Was it black and white? C'mon, Dad.

I shot back: C'mon, you like Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Time and they're from the same time frame. She was barely mollified, but she and I and her brother sat down with some popcorn to watch MP on Saturday night.

I'm not going to deny it. I laughed out loud several times. Still. I had to skip the final part about Sir Galahad and Castle Anthrax, but it took me until the spanking scene was about to begin to remember what was coming wasn't really appropriate for the kids. Our son laughed out loud several times, at predictable times. He loved the killer rabbit, and the Black Knight. Oh, and the French throwing the cow. And I heard him say "Knights that say Ni!" a couple of times.

Our daughter? Begrudging at best. She liked the Bridge of Death Scene. "Blue. No YeAAAAAAGH!" she laughed a couple of times. And she also wanted to watch the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog scene over, which we did. But at the end, she said she didn't really like it.

I'll be listening these next few weeks for her to repeat some of the movie's lines. That's how the Monty Python infection starts, and then it builds. We'll see.

Is that really a way to charge for air transportation?

I agree with Lone Wolf. The government should make fat people pay more for gasoline. Since they weigh more, it takes more fuel to move that person from point A to point B than a person in good shape like myself. If you make fat people in America pay say $6 a gallon, that would inspire them to walk or bike instead of drive, and then maybe they can lose some weight. At least then I can respect that person.

I assume that the author of that comment would also agree that children should be charged less than adults, and that jockeys should be charged less than basketball players.

This probably would be a boon to commercial scale manufacturers.

I just wanted to promote this very early piece of web design art. Dole was still a candidate back in those days!

I don't know. I'm confused about what to blog about anymore.

Image by Chris & Ariella

This is when it hits home.

That leaves the question, though, of whether the proposal will score points on the campaign trail. In Kokomo, Ind., last week, Kathy Spier said the rising cost of gas is to blame for the 50 percent drop-off in sales at her three exotic lingerie stores. "They don't have extra money to spend on frivolous things," she said.