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"The Ministry of Silly Walks" is a sketch from the Monty Python comedy troupe's television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, series 2, episode 1, which is entitled "Face the Press". The episode first aired on 15 September 1970. A shortened version of the sketch was performed for Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
A satire on bureaucratic inefficiency, the sketch involves John Cleese as a bowler-hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing silly walks through grants. Cleese, throughout the sketch, walks in a variety of silly ways. It is these various silly walks, more than the dialogue, that have earned the sketch its popularity. Cleese has cited the physical comedy of Max Wall, probably in character as Professor Wallofski, as important to its conception.
Ben Beaumont-Thomas in The Guardian writes, "Cleese is utterly deadpan as he takes the stereotypical bowler-hatted political drone and ruthlessly skewers him. All the self-importance, bureaucratic inefficiency and laughable circuitousness of Whitehall is summed up in one balletic extension of his slender leg."

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  1. M

    Oh how silly of me. Dohhhhjju

    Anyone know of a wrap around pipe repair for 110mm? Just cut into a soil pipe while cutting out a boxing. Don't really want to have to cut a coupler and slip coupler in.
  2. P

    Unvented system silly question

    Long time no post fellas Ive got a job to move a basin and rad to opposopp walls, unvented system I just turn the cw off next to cylinder and open hot and cold dont I Forgive my simple question but I don't usually work on a anything other than combis
  3. A

    Silly me: got cylinder replaced to help pressure - was I duped?

    Hi all, I've been quite stupid I think. I put an ad out asking for quotes for replacing the cylinder in my flat. A direct combination one. When the trader came over I told him I was doing it to improve the water pressure in my bathroom taps (which I have now learned is not how this works at...
  4. Meady

    Silly d!ck

    Don't you just love it when you get for work at 5, get ready walk the dog have a coffee, and then as your about to leave you check your phone and realise you've woke up an hour early. Dont want to go back to sleep either as I got my van out the garage so I'm just sat here now keeping an eye on...
  5. turnpin

    silly fella's back......

    Hi forum chum's...Turnpin here...back from hol's in Spain....took me tablet but left the charger back home..what with French air traffic control and the need to track our flights had to limit tablet/forum search's back home now tablet charged so will do some catching up......cheer's Turnpin:8:
  6. hammers4spanner

    Silly jobs

    What do you guys do on some jobs where you get that phone call of i have a problem with my shower can you look at it? Job today had someone ask this can i come and look usually i charge to do silly bits however was passing through so dived in . Was an old mixer that needed a prv on cold and...
  7. C

    Maybe a silly question - replacing a power shower

    Hello My Gainsborough PS1200 has given up the ghost so i'm on the look out for a replacement. This may be a silly question but Do I need to call a plumber, a sparky or ..... both? Cheers
  8. N

    Mlcp

    Plumb center now stock Pegler Yorkshire tektite flexible metal. Which is mlcp and available in 15mm and 22mm. Not the silly European mlcp sizes...16mm, 20mm etc. At £2.50 per meter for 15mm its the cheapest between polypumb and copper. Its the only pipe system...
  9. E

    Really silly question about pumping a Vaillant Boiler

    Hi everyone, My Vaillant EcoTec boiler is an absolute menage. The pressure is super low (between 0.7 and 1.2) and has been dropping quite significantly over the last few weeks since I had to call in a professional to get it re-pressurised. I have a (quite 70s-looking) Rothenburger pump - as I...
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  10. I

    Silly one- advice pls

    I had an engineer saying you can't run 35mm copper off a U6 meter as it needs a commercial/larger domestic U16.. now i'm 99% sure this is gash and the guy (who doesn't have a commercial ticket) is looking for a way out. Back story being: A big greedy Worster 40 feed by about (adding in fittings)...
  11. W

    Silly question I have to ask.

    Hi guys, go easy on me here. I've just had a phone call from a hotel, the first thing she said is, "I'm looking for commercial." Now a hotel to my idiots eyes is just a very big house with many an en suite. So when does a property become commercial only, yes I know it's a business, but in real...
  12. D

    The silly season has begun.

    And the fkn idiots are out. http://www.ukplumbersforums.co.uk/central-heating-forum/74915-weird-fault-gloworm-fuelsaver-55f-any.html
  13. cr0ft

    At risk of asking a silly question?

    Hi all, Where cistern to pan coupling bolts go down through the cistern itself (as opposed to a close coupling kit being used) are the holes in the cistern/pan a standard distance apart? The pan I currently has the holes 140mm apart. I want to change the cistern to change it into a corner WC...
  14. cr0ft

    How silly are some people

    Been called back to a house we fitted 20 odd downlighters in a couple of months back. The customer said that one of the downlighters had 'fallen down slightly ' from her study and was hanging by the spring clip. The connection block had also melted to a blob of plastic. Went up into the loft...
  15. M

    Well that was a silly thing to do.

    Last week in the ice and snow I decided to start the engine before I de iced the screen. A I got back out I knocked the wipers on and there was a bit of a graunching noise. I swiftly killed the engine, de iced the screen and carried on my way. The wipers were a bit noisy but I ignored it because...
  16. woodsy

    The silly season

    This time of year drives me nuts. Jobs that people were advised to do earlier on in the year and ignored the advise, now become really important because auntie so & so is coming round for xmas. Had it today, job now desperate, told that booked up but if got chance tomorrow , I would call her and...
  17. P

    Silly question ...perhaps

    Hi all sorry to bother you with a silly question. I have to do some work on a cold water main in a property and the gas board have plonked a brand new meter right in front of the incoming cold water stopcock. I would like to solder some fittings in the area but the gas meter is pretty darn...
  18. H

    Silly question

    Here's one for you. I have a red handle lever vavle, obviously indicates hot water. I need to install a blue one on cold water, but to get the job done is there any reason why I can't install this one and change the handle after? Just not sure if there is a difference. I know the yellow ones...
  19. N

    Very silly question, but I have to ask

    Got a leak coming from the connection of the cold water pipe and the thermostate part of the tap, it's a Triton Aire Bath Shower mixer installed about 4 1/2 years ago (new build flat). The nut that keeps the taps to the pipes connected has been tighted once already and that worked for a short...
  20. L

    Installation of sanivite

    Hi I would like to know what is the regs for installing a sanivite on a toilet and a handy wash instant water heater over a sink. I have been asked to replace a faulty unit like for like, plumbing part is not a problem. It's the wiring into a fuse spare which i have done many times before. As...
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