@chipchristian I don’t think Earl is a ewe. It appears the wolf (or coyote or dog) swings more than one way, and therefore finds monogamy challenging. Meanwhile Earl wants an exclusive relationship. As always, it’s hard to have it both ways.
“Quit ewe” is a reference to Brokeback Mountain, also called out in the caption. The movie tells the story of a love affair between two men in the West. Its most famous line is “I wish I knew how to quit you.”
The two men are cisgender, so I’m inclined to think that “quit ewe” does not really work. That is a ram that identifies as a ram, not a ewe.
Yeah, it fell apart when I realized it was a male. However, I enjoyed it so much that I understand why the author felt he had to do it; there may be no perfect solution. I felt the funny, and that’s always a gift to me.
Judges in recess – wasn’t there a Monty Python sketch with the same joke? Some British show, anyway.
Here is the Monty Python judges sketch. Note that this kind of humor is not everyone’s cup of tea, and some might find it offensive.
“Well, as I was saying to Melvin Belli the other day, you know, you can put it in the hand of your attorney but it will never stand up in court.”
Mark in Boston, I saw “Melvin Belli” in the text of your comment, and until watching the video was going to ask what memory dump you pulled that guy up out of! But even more surprising that the Pythons would know of him!
I think Belli’s memoir was the first celebrity-lawyer bragging book I encountered. I was quite taken with it the first time I read it. Then a few years later I looked at it again and was revolted by it, by the awful bald ego of the credit grabs, and the weird self-serving social takes. The part about the musical plagiarism case was filled with remarks about how a smart rational lawyer can destroy on cross examination a “creative type” trying to be funny; I think it was with that one that I realized I was no longer reading these adventures from an identification with his side.
That was about a song “Rum and Coca-Cola”, and the person Belli thought he destroyed was comedian Morey Amsterdam, known to us for his appearances on the Dick van Dyke show.
Some years larer I think there was a different infringement case with a different high-profile lawyer and a different celebrity songwriter… about a different tropical drink! (If you like Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain?)
@Mark in Boston, that’s not the sketch I was thinking of.
Turns out it was from The Frost Report, written by Terry Jones and likely had Cleese in it. No wonder I thought it was Python.
“We were contributing little one-liners for Frost’s monologue and sketches, and then we got to doing these little visual films which we actually got to perform in. Little things like, “What judges do at the high court during recess.” We just film a lot of judges with their wigs and gowns in a children’s playground, going down slides. “
Melvin Belli was quite well-known in the 1970’s. Star Trek TOS fans remember him as an actor in one episode.
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Multi-tsk’ing – – ha ha!
The ewe is named Earl?
@chipchristian I don’t think Earl is a ewe. It appears the wolf (or coyote or dog) swings more than one way, and therefore finds monogamy challenging. Meanwhile Earl wants an exclusive relationship. As always, it’s hard to have it both ways.
“Quit ewe” is a reference to Brokeback Mountain, also called out in the caption. The movie tells the story of a love affair between two men in the West. Its most famous line is “I wish I knew how to quit you.”
The two men are cisgender, so I’m inclined to think that “quit ewe” does not really work. That is a ram that identifies as a ram, not a ewe.
Yeah, it fell apart when I realized it was a male. However, I enjoyed it so much that I understand why the author felt he had to do it; there may be no perfect solution. I felt the funny, and that’s always a gift to me.
Judges in recess – wasn’t there a Monty Python sketch with the same joke? Some British show, anyway.
Here is the Monty Python judges sketch. Note that this kind of humor is not everyone’s cup of tea, and some might find it offensive.
“Well, as I was saying to Melvin Belli the other day, you know, you can put it in the hand of your attorney but it will never stand up in court.”
Mark in Boston, I saw “Melvin Belli” in the text of your comment, and until watching the video was going to ask what memory dump you pulled that guy up out of! But even more surprising that the Pythons would know of him!
I think Belli’s memoir was the first celebrity-lawyer bragging book I encountered. I was quite taken with it the first time I read it. Then a few years later I looked at it again and was revolted by it, by the awful bald ego of the credit grabs, and the weird self-serving social takes. The part about the musical plagiarism case was filled with remarks about how a smart rational lawyer can destroy on cross examination a “creative type” trying to be funny; I think it was with that one that I realized I was no longer reading these adventures from an identification with his side.
That was about a song “Rum and Coca-Cola”, and the person Belli thought he destroyed was comedian Morey Amsterdam, known to us for his appearances on the Dick van Dyke show.
Some years larer I think there was a different infringement case with a different high-profile lawyer and a different celebrity songwriter… about a different tropical drink! (If you like Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain?)
@Mark in Boston, that’s not the sketch I was thinking of.
Turns out it was from The Frost Report, written by Terry Jones and likely had Cleese in it. No wonder I thought it was Python.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/morgan-python.html
“We were contributing little one-liners for Frost’s monologue and sketches, and then we got to doing these little visual films which we actually got to perform in. Little things like, “What judges do at the high court during recess.” We just film a lot of judges with their wigs and gowns in a children’s playground, going down slides. “
Melvin Belli was quite well-known in the 1970’s. Star Trek TOS fans remember him as an actor in one episode.