From: "Herman" 


"Reverend Ozone" 
schreef in 
bericht news:g6rb9l$2sd$1{at}registered.motzarella.org...
> For reasons known only to Him, *Analda Anglin* typed:
>
>> Erik D Larsen wrote:
>>
>>> I was just tipped off to this by a post in uk.media.tv.misc. Sue
>>> Jones-Davies (Judith in LoB) is now the mayor of Aberystwyth, Wales -
>>> and is trying to overturn her town's ban on showings of
"Brian",
>>> still in effect almost 30 years later!
>>>
>>> news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7514423.stm
>
>> Hello Erik!  Your post is timely.  Just the other day, someone I knew
>> was telling me how much he enjoyed Monty Python films but then remarked
>> that he can't watch Life of Brian due to his personal beliefs.  I was
>> quite surprised those attitudes still existing in the face of today's
>> movie and television offerings.
>
> When "LOB" came out, I was quite the "Holy Roller"
but still enjoyed the 
> movie as I "got" the joke.  Actually, it's fairly
historically accurate, 
> as the times were calling for a messiah of some sort, political or 
> otherwise.  Brian's "disciples" just got it wrong, that's all.
>
> Nothing offensive at all about it, really.  Well, /maybe/  the "Full 
> Monty" shot.....
>
> -- 
> Reverend Ozone
>
> "Non illegitimi carborundum est"
>

Yes, times have not really changed.
Many people who have no idea what LOB was really about are still very much 
against it (of course without having seen it, because knowledge is the enemy 
of primitive thought).
The main difference between genius and stupidity is that stupidity has no 
limits.

Regards,
Herman


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