From: dave.rogers{at}yahoo.com


Stacie wrote:
> Wonderful World of Sound(s), I'm thinking. The one with the magnified
> ant roaring and so forth. I'm pretty sure you're right, and the exact
> phrase is used in that sketch. Michael Palin is the host of the show.
>
> It appears to be on the Monty Python's Previous Record CD, though,
> assuming the discography I found is correct.

That's the one - I always confuse those two records. So that's a documented
occurrence in 1972, or 18 years before the date the OP had found. Aside
from anecdotal evidence that Shakespeare used the phrase in his famous play
"Gay Boys in Bondage", I think that's the best we can do here.

Dave Rogers

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