Scene: A Monty Python launderette which is also a domestic living room. On a
sofa sit Terry Jones and Eric Idle in drag as hair-piled-high housewives
with aprons, egg-stained cardigans and rolling pins.
Housewife One (con falsetto) : 'I'm sick of all this Jean-Paul Sartre,
what's on the box?' (looking at a washing machine)
Housewife Two (tweaking moustache, basso profundo) : ' Just Bloody Repeats.
As Joyce said ' (voice changing to falsetto) 'History is the nightmare from
which I am trying to awake. Or ...'
(both in unison): 'It's - Yet Again - The Dissolution of The Monasteries
Show' :
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=41
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(David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
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