You did a nice job on that.

But surely someone in the bomb disposal squad must have seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail....

One would hope. But do you want to be the guy who says, "Oh! It's a prop!" and then have the thing take out half of London because some member of Al-Qaeda or the IRA saw Holy Grail too? I think bomb squads in London have earned a little paranoia.

Isn't the protocol for most bomb squads to have a robot do the initial close-up inspection to minimize the chances of a human getting accidentally exploded?

Isn't the protocol for most bomb squads to have a robot do the initial close-up inspection to minimize the chances of a human getting accidentally exploded?

It'll be the bomb squad robots that will be first to rebel.

It'll be the bomb squad robots that will be first to rebel.

They'll start by saying, "Go ahead, pick it up. It's a Monty Python prop."

I think this bit is one of the funniest things the Pythons ever did:

A Reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:

Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

Hee.

I really enjoyed "The Color of Magic" last night. It looked like it had been made by the same people that made "The Hogfather" - have there been any other Terry Pratchett adaptations from these people?

Although they don't make a big deal of the score in these soccer games, both the kid's teams won handily. It was kinda satisfying that my daughter's team won since the opposing coach was sorta intense and their coed team was more experienced then my daughter's all girl team.

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone!!

I'm going to celebrate my 43rd b-day by working all day, then heading over to the local park district's pool and signing up for the year (only $69, not bad) and then finally going grocery shopping (the pantry's been bare for some time, but now that I've cleaned out my fridge, I have room for fresh food that I hopefully won't let rot in the crisper drawer). My goal is to start bringing in my lunch instead of spending money at the cafeteria every day.

Sobering thought, that girl playing soccer looked like this when I first joined the Buffistas back in the Table Talk days.

She's so tall!

Although they don't make a big deal of the score in these soccer games, both the kid's teams won handily. It was kinda satisfying that my daughter's team won since the opposing coach was sorta intense and their coed team was more experienced then my daughter's all girl team.

We played our first game on Saturday, and not only lost but the slaughter rule was invoked. Woe!

Though we were actually ahead after two innings (against a tough team) and it came down to one bad inning. It was my fault for leaving a pitcher out there too long when he was getting batted around. I knew he'd give up some runs but I wanted to give him some experience and he wasn't walking anybody. But it can really undermine their confidence when they get hammered like that. On the other hand, he might not be able to pitch at this level.