BEER!
 
 
nothing cures so many ills as my favorite ale.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/CHEERS!

Water Purification

i say the use of medicine

Women.

Anything but that wretched Ginger-scooter thingy everyone kept talking about last year...
 
Apart from that (and obviously computers), I'd have to say civilisation!
 
Rgds
AndyF

The Wheel

transistors

Transistors ?
 
Clutch already gave the definitive answer.
 
H.

I'd say women too but it was a flawed invention.
 
 
 
How can one thing bring so much pleasure, and so much pain .....
 
 
all at the same time
 
 
then again thats why there is BEER!
 
 
/CHEERS!

Me

Quote:
BEER!


*clink!*

Yeeeeehaaaaw!

Many researchers suggest (with the backup of much evidence) that the stirup contributed a great deal to the development of a class heirarchy in European society.
 
The printing press did much the same.
 
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However it is the idea of the class system, Artharian England and Monty Python that has got me sold on the stirup.
 
ARTHUR
Old woman!
 
DENNIS
Man!
 
ARTHUR
Man. I'm sorry. Old man, What knight live in that castle over there?
 
DENNIS
I'm thirty-seven.
 
ARTHUR
What?
 
DENNIS:
I'm thirty-seven ... I'm not old.
 
ARTHUR:
Well - I can't just say: "Hey, Man!'
 
DENNIS
Well you could say: "Dennis"
 
ARTHUR
I didn't know you were called Dennis.
 
DENNIS
You didn't bother to find out, did you?
 
ARTHUR
I've said I'm sorry about the old woman, but from the behind you looked ...
 
DENNIS
What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior ...
 
ARTHUR
Well ... I AM king.
 
DENNIS
Oh, very nice. King, eh! I expect you've got a palace and fine clothes and courtiers and plenty of food. And how d'you get that?
By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the social and economic differences in our society! If there's EVER going to be any progress ...
 
An OLD WOMAN appears.
 
OLD WOMAN
Dennis! There's some lovely filth down here ... Oh! how d'you do?
 
ARTHUR
How d'you do, good lady ... I am Arthur, King of the Britons ... can you tell me who lives in that castle?
 
OLD WOMAN
King of the WHO?
 
ARTHUR
The Britons.
 
OLD WOMAN
Who are the Britons?
 
ARTHUR
All of us are ... we are all Britons.
 
DENNIS winks at the OLD WOMAN.
 
... and I am your king ....
 
OLD WOMAN
Ooooh! I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective ...
 
DENNIS
You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship, A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes ...
 
OLD WOMAN
There you are, bringing class into it again ...
 
DENNIS
That's what it's all about ... If only -
 
ARTHUR
Please, please good people. I am in haste. What knight lives in that castle?
 
OLD WOMAN
No one live there.
 
ARTHUR
Well, who is your lord?
 
OLD WOMAN
We don't have a lord.
 
ARTHUR
What?
 
DENNIS
I told you, We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune, we take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
 
ARTHUR
Yes.
 
DENNIS
... But all the decision of that officer ...
 
ARTHUR
Yes, I see.
 
DENNIS
... must be approved at a bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs.
 
ARTHUR
Be quiet!
 
DENNIS
... but a two-thirds majority ...
 
ARTHUR
Be quiet! I order you to shut up.
 
OLD WOMAN
Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
 
ARTHUR
I am your king!
 
OLD WOMAN
Well, I didn't vote for you.
 
ARTHUR
You don't vote for kings.
 
OLD WOMAN
Well, how did you become king, then?
 
ARTHUR
The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held Excalibur aloft from the bosom of the water to signify by Divine Providence ... that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur ... That is why I am your king!
 
OLD WOMAN
Is Frank in? He'd be able to deal with this one.
 
DENNIS
Look, strange women lying on their backs in ponds handing out swords ... that's no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
 
ARTHUR
Be quiet!
 
DENNIS
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
 
ARTHUR
Shut up!
 
DENNIS
I mean, if I went around saying I was an Emperor because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, people would put me away!
 
 
ARTHUR (Grabbing him by the collar)
Shut up, will you. Shut up!
 
DENNIS
Ah! NOW ... we see the violence inherent in the system.
 
ARTHUR
Shut up!
 
PEOPLE (i.e. other PEASANTS) are appearing and watching.
 
DENNIS (calling)
Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!
 
ARTHUR (aware that people are now coming out and watching)
Bloody peasant!
(pushes DENNIS over into mud and prepares to ride off)
 
DENNIS
Oh, Did you hear that! What a give-away.
 
Monty Python's Completely Useless Web Site

@Felix,
 
Been watching "Connections"?
 

Oh, goodie. Another Monty Python fan.
 
"Right!"