This morning's random silliness has been gratuitously borrowed from Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"....
MAN:
Yeah. Yeah. [sniff] Can we have your liver, then?
MRS. BROWN:
Yeah. All right. You talked me into it.
MAN:
Eric!
[clap]
[music]
CHAIRMAN:
...Which brings us once again to the urgent realisation of just how much there is still left to own. Item six on the agenda: the meaning of life. Now, uh, Harry, you've had some thoughts on this.
HARRY:
That's right. Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and, uh, what we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: people are not wearing enough hats. Two: matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio, as orthodox Christianity teaches. It has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
[pause]
BERT:
What was that about hats, again?
HARRY:
Oh, uh, people aren't wearing enough.
CHAIRMAN:
Is this true?
EDMUND:
Certainly. Hat sales have increased, but not pari passu, as our research initially--
BERT:
But when you say 'enough', enough for what purpose?
GUNTHER:
Can I just ask, with reference to your second point, when you say souls don't develop because people become distracted,...
[rumble]
...has anyone noticed that building there before?
RANDOM:
Ohh.
RANDOM:
My God!
CHAIRMAN:
Good Lord!
[crash]
[exciting music]
[crash]
EVERYONE:
[mumbling]
[crash]
CRIMSON PERMANENT ASSURANCE PIRATE:
Aaaaah!
[crash]
CHAIRMAN:
Good Lord! The Crimson Permanent Assurance Pirate!
PROJECTIONIST:
We interrupt this film to apologise for this unwarranted attack by the supporting feature. Luckily, we have been prepared for this eventuality, and are now taking steps to remedy it.
[creak]
[boom]
Thank you.
