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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsLondon Celebrates The Monty Python Reunion By Putting A 50-Foot Dead Parrot In Potters Field Park
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3033103/london-celebrates-the-monty-python-reunion-by-putting-a-50-foot-dead-parrot-in-potters-fieldThe Monty Python reunion in London began on July 1, and after a 10-day break, picks up again tonight at the O2 Arena for the final five nights that will see Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin on the same stage together, doing silly things one more time. Of course, it's not all sillinessthe first five-night run of the performance raised more than £20,000 for five different charities chosen by the Python members, by giving those charities the opportunity to auction off the right to perform in a sketch alongside the cast.
To celebrate the achievements of the Monty Python crew, UKTV channel Goldwhich will air the final performance of the reunion on Sundaycontracted with sculptor Iain Prendergast to create a 50-foot fiberglass version of the famous "Norwegian Blue" parrot. The parrot, which is famous for being dead from the moment it was sold, was placed on Monday at Potters Fields Park in South London, near Tower Bridge. This is both a fine reminder to tune in on Sunday to the broadcast and an outstanding opportunity to inspire countless visitors to declare in increasingly frantic tones that "This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! Its expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! Its a stiff!" Because if theres anything that you need to commission a 50-foot fiberglass sculpture to get people who know every word to famous Monty Python sketches to do, its to recite the funnier bits of those sketches to anyone within earshot.
To celebrate the achievements of the Monty Python crew, UKTV channel Goldwhich will air the final performance of the reunion on Sundaycontracted with sculptor Iain Prendergast to create a 50-foot fiberglass version of the famous "Norwegian Blue" parrot. The parrot, which is famous for being dead from the moment it was sold, was placed on Monday at Potters Fields Park in South London, near Tower Bridge. This is both a fine reminder to tune in on Sunday to the broadcast and an outstanding opportunity to inspire countless visitors to declare in increasingly frantic tones that "This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! Its expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! Its a stiff!" Because if theres anything that you need to commission a 50-foot fiberglass sculpture to get people who know every word to famous Monty Python sketches to do, its to recite the funnier bits of those sketches to anyone within earshot.
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London Celebrates The Monty Python Reunion By Putting A 50-Foot Dead Parrot In Potters Field Park (Original Post)
KamaAina
Apr 2015
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Arkansas Granny
(31,513 posts)1. It's pining for the fjords.
Couldn't resist.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)2. Sure
But has it been nailed to the perch?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)3. Are they going to put 5,000 volts through it?
It might go BOOM!
Great to see the Brits celebrating one of the greatest contributions to the last 50 years.
Yavin4
(35,430 posts)4. It's not dead. It's resting.
Hellooo parrot. Hello.