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Monty Python captures the essence of the 24-hour news cycle - over 30 years ahead of its time.
June the fourth, 1973, a day like any other summer's day in Peterborough. And Ralph Melish, a file clerk at an insurance company, was on his way to work as usual. When.......nothing happened. Scarcely able to believe his eyes, Ralph Melish looked down. But one glance confirmed his suspicions. Behind the bush, on the side of the road, there was no severed arm. No dismembered trunk of a man in his late 50s. No head in a bag. Nothing. Not a sausage. For Ralph Melish, this was not to be the start of any trail of events which would not, in no time at all, involve him in neither a tangled knot of suspicion, nor any web of lies, which would, had he been not uninvolved, surely have led him to no other place, than the central criminal court of the Old Bailey.
The whole routine is worth a read. At its best, Monty Python shines a timeless spotlight on much of the silliness in this world.
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