"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"---Your mother was a hamster?

Evan 2021-10-13 13:07:24

The French guards made tricks when complaining about King Arthur. The sentence "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" is said to be a blunt literal translation of a French swear word. Hamsters are highly reproductive, and elderberries (elderberries) were once used to make wine. So what the French soldiers really want to express is "Your mom is a whore and your dad is an alcoholic"

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  • Eliane 2021-10-20 18:59:32

    The anti-type starts from the opening subtitles and laughs all the way to the death of me. Unscrupulously molesting the audience, rabbits, swallows, ducks, etc. Deeply lying down with guns, police infestation is really magical, I want to find Monty Python's Flying Circus

  • Stuart 2022-03-22 09:01:02

    An absurd classic, one of the top five British comedies. It satirizes the political, economic and religious myths of the Middle Ages. What was Zhou Xingchi doing in 1979? ,, Um, I didn't expect the ending to be like this. . .

Monty Python and the Holy Grail quotes

  • Dingo: You must spank her well, and after you are done with her, you may deal with her as you like... and then... spank me.

    All: And me. And me too. And me.

    Dingo: Yes. Yes, you must give us all a good spanking.

  • Dingo: And after the spanking, the oral sex.

    Galahad: Well, I could stay a bit longer...