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I haven't seen Life of Brian in over 10 years, but I don't remember thinking much of it. I'd have to watch it again though. I can barely watch the Holy Grail now because I've seen it so many dozens of times that I know every word. As hilariously awesome as it still is, I just can't anymore.Comment
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I think overall Life of Brian is a more coherent story and social commentary, but Holy Grail just kills it with the skits and jokes.
I actually watched Life of Brian this weekend. It was Ashleigh's first time watching and being raised in a Catholic family I think she quite enjoyed it.
"All I did was say to my wife, "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!"
*taps microphone*
I have never watched Flying Circus skits.
*side-steps thrown vegetables*
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I think overall Life of Brian is a more coherent story and social commentary, but Holy Grail just kills it with the skits and jokes.
I actually watched Life of Brian this weekend. It was Ashleigh's first time watching and being raised in a Catholic family I think she quite enjoyed it.
"All I did was say to my wife, "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!"
*taps microphone*
I have never watched Flying Circus skits.
*side-steps thrown vegetables*
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Alonso de Hojeda, a Dominican friar from Seville, convinced Queen Isabella of the existence of Crypto-Judaism among Andalusian conversos during her stay in Seville between 1477 and 1478. A report, produced by Pedro González de Mendoza, Archbishop of Seville, and by the Segovian Dominican Tomás de Torquemada, corroborated this assertion. The monarchs decided to introduce the Inquisition to Castile to discover and punish crypto-Jews, and requested the pope's assent. Ferdinand II of Aragon pressured Pope Sixtus IV to agree to an Inquisition controlled by the monarchy by threatening to withdraw military support at a time when the Turks were a threat to Rome. The pope issued a bull to stop the Inquisition but was pressured into withdrawing it. On November 1, 1478, Pope Sixtus IV published the Papal bull, Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus, through which he gave the monarchs exclusive authority to name the inquisitors in their kingdoms. The first two inquisitors, Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín were not named, however, until two years later, on September 27, 1480 in Medina del Campo. The first auto-da-fé was held in Seville on February 6, 1481: six people were burned alive. From there, the Inquisition grew rapidly in the Kingdom of Castile. By 1492, tribunals existed in eight Castilian cities: Ávila, Córdoba, Jaén, Medina del Campo, Segovia, Sigüenza, Toledo, and Valladolid. Sixtus IV promulgated a new bull categorically prohibiting the Inquisition's extension to Aragon, affirming that, many true and faithful Christians, because of the testimony of enemies, rivals, slaves and other low people—and still less appropriate—without tests of any kind, have been locked up in secular prisons, tortured and condemned like relapsed heretics, deprived of their goods and properties, and given over to the secular arm to be executed, at great danger to their souls, giving a pernicious example and causing scandal to many. In 1483, Jews were expelled from all of Andalusia. Ferdinand pressured the pope to promulgate a new bull. He did so on October 17, 1483, naming Tomás de Torquemada Inquisidor General of Aragón, Valencia and Catalonia. Torquemada quickly established procedures for the Inquisition. A new court would be announced with a thirty-day grace period for confessions and the gathering of accusations by neighbors. Evidence that was used to identify a crypto-Jew included the absence of chimney smoke on Saturdays (a sign the family might secretly be honoring the Sabbath) or the buying of many vegetables before Passover or the purchase of meat from a converted butcher. The court employed physical torture to extract confessions. Crypto-Jews were allowed to confess and do penance, although those who relapsed were burned at the stake. In 1484 Pope Innocent VIII attempted to allow appeals to Rome against the Inquisition, but Ferdinand in December 1484 and again in 1509 decreed death and confiscation for anyone trying to make use of such procedures without royal permission. With this, the Inquisition became the only institution that held authority across all the realms of the Spanish monarchy and, in all of them, a useful mechanism at the service of the crown. However, the cities of Aragón continued resisting, and even saw revolt, as in Teruel from 1484 to 1485. However, the murder of Inquisidor Pedro Arbués in Zaragoza on September 15, 1485, caused public opinion to turn against the conversos and in favour of the Inquisition. In Aragón, the Inquisitorial courts were focused specifically on members of the powerful converso minority, ending their influence in the Aragonese administration. The Inquisition was extremely active between 1480 and 1530. Different sources give different estimates of the number of trials and executions in this period; Henry Kamen estimates about 2,000 executed, based on the documentation of the autos-da-fé, the great majority being conversos of Jewish origin. He offers striking statistics: 91.6% of those judged in Valencia between 1484 and 1530 and 99.3% of those judged in Barcelona between 1484 and 1505 were of Jewish origin. "In 1498 the pope was still trying to...gain acceptance for his own attitude towards the New Christians, which was generally more moderate than that of the Inquisition and the local rulers."
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Here's my Monty Python memory and literally the only thing I know or remember about it.. and it's extremely random, but..
My parents were out of town when I was 16 and I had a party on the 4th of July. Some people invited some people and it got bigger than expected.
I go into my bedroom at like 4am to crash and there's some girl i don't even know who's naked and wrapped up on my bed. She's watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail on TV. I remember someone getting hit by a sword and their arm falling off and then I laughed about that and then laid down beside the girl and passed the **** out, drunk as balls..
I woke up the next morning and the girl asked me why I went to sleep there and I said, "It's my bed.. naked or not you chose to sleep here".
That was almost 8 years ago and while I was incredibly drunk, I always remember that and associate it with Monty Python.Last edited by AUChase; 05-10-2014, 06:39 PM.Comment
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Here's my Monty Python memory and literally the only thing I know or remember about it.. and it's extremely random, but..
My parents were out of town when I was 16 and I had a party on the 4th of July. Some people invited some people and it got bigger than expected.
I go into my bedroom at like 4am to crash and there's some girl i don't even know who's naked and wrapped up on my bed. She's watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail on TV. I remember someone getting hit by a sword and their arm falling off and then I laughed about that and then laid down beside the girl and passed the **** out, drunk as balls..
I woke up the next morning and the girl asked me why I went to sleep there and I said, "It's my bed.. naked or not you chose to sleep here".
That was almost 8 years ago and while I was incredibly drunk, I always remember that and associate it with Monty Python.Twitter: @TyroneisMaximus
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