taken from the wiki page for coconut: The origin of the plant is, after many decades, still the subject of debate. It has generally been accepted that the coconut originated in the Indian-Indonesia region and float-distributed itself around the world by riding ocean currents. Coconuts do in fact migrate.
OmegaVoidFox Actually, coconut palms spread by dropping coconuts into sea. The coconut is then carried by ocean currents and lands on some random island. That's why there are coconut palms everywhere on pacific islands, even on very isolated ones. That's not exactly migration, but surely no other tree doesn't spread in such a vast area.
"The Lady of the Lake-- her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!"
+Stephanie Briggs Soggy old blondes with their backsides in ponds is no basis for a system of government. If I went around saying I was an emperor because some watery tart lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
The line actually goes: Listen mate, strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Me: what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow. Siri: About 25mph for a European swallow. You have to know these things when you're a virtual assistant you know. HAHAHA
Omg thanks for the idea! Just tried this with my Google assistant and it says: About 30kmph (24mph) but significantly slower when carrying coconut shells 😂
What if a seagull ate an african swallow who was carrying a coconut, then travelled all the way to Mercia with this coconut hanging from his beak? There he might have found a suitable mate, another seagull who was carrying yet another coconut from yet another african swallow. They enjoyed a lovely evening flying around the coast, holding wings... when they went back to their nest the coconuts were gone.
I’m quite certain gulls are not predatory toward other fowl, preferring the boons of the sea and such. Yes, I find it highly doubtful that a seagull should prey upon an African Swallow, even more so when you suggest that it happened twice.
"It's not a question of where he GRIPS it, it's a simple matter of weight ratio. A five-ounce bird cannot carry a ten-ounce nut!" I've always loved this part so much. XD
I remember when my best friend and I were in grade 8 back in 06 and we did a parody of this for class, only 2 of our classmates got the reference and no one else laughed.. not even the teacher. sad.
Taryn DeCicco I did a one man show of this scene for my acting class in high school. No one got it. Powered through the entire thing. made my teacher cry though. It was weird
i love how this joke is revisited in the bridge scene and also in the beginning of the scene when he picks up his first knight...when the group brings the witch to the knight he's in the process of releasing a swallow with a string connected to a coconut
"Well, it doesn't matter! Will you tell your master that Arthur from the court of Camelot is here?" "Listen, to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?" You do realize that if Arthur is so smart in the rest of this film, the guard he's arguing with is probably the smartest guy in the entire film?
That's what they actually use in almost all movies with horses :P Very rarely is the clip-clopping you hear actually coming from the horse, usually they over-dub nearly all sound effects and coconuts are what they use for horses xD
Nobody respects monty python because monty python is smart witty humor everyone these days only like humor that does all the work for you but humor like this that makes you think and call bs on anything is gold.
These two guys are probably the smartest men at this time period. They can do math, which pretty much nobody knew at the time, they're using Imperial measurements, which weren't even a thing yet, knew that coconuts weren’t from England, knew how fast swallows beat their wings, knew time measurements, and knew that African swallows don’t migrate.
@smokedaddy258 Yup. Coconuts float, and are designed that way in order to ride the ocean and wash up on far off beaches. However, sixth century Mercia was landlocked.
Internet arguments in a nutshell.
*in a coconut shell that was carried by two swallows
But what kind of swallows?
An African or a European swallow?
Gamer Goku Well...umm..I don't know tha-AHHHHHHHHHHHH
internet arguments aren't as civil as the argument in this video. more swearing and name calling and death threats
taken from the wiki page for coconut:
The origin of the plant is, after many decades, still the subject of debate. It has generally been accepted that the coconut originated in the Indian-Indonesia region and float-distributed itself around the world by riding ocean currents.
Coconuts do in fact migrate.
classyrainbowhead Do they grow in England?
Just read an FB post saying that they actually migrated to the Caribbean
Fatalcutie ARE YOU SUGGESTING COCONUTS MIGRATE
Tumblr in a Nutshell.
And remember, due to the problems with rigid terminology, the milky, hairy coconut can be considered a mammal.
"It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios!"
+xXxDjShamblesxXx "A five once bird could not carry a one pound coconut"
+iandhr1 Well it doesn't matter!
" "*
Listen, to maintain airspeed velocity, a swallow has to beat its wings 43 times per minute, right?
I'm not interested
"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?!" is immediately my go-to quote for when someone is being ridiculously dumb.
Whenever I'm late, I say my walk has gotten rather silly lately.
OmegaVoidFox Actually, coconut palms spread by dropping coconuts into sea. The coconut is then carried by ocean currents and lands on some random island. That's why there are coconut palms everywhere on pacific islands, even on very isolated ones.
That's not exactly migration, but surely no other tree doesn't spread in such a vast area.
+Hyper "Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"
+OmegaVoidFox Oh my god! I'm doing that from now on!
DarkMario Not to be a "me too"...but me too. Mwahahaha!
It's funny because this conversation would then go on to save Arthur's life at the bridge of death.
What do you mean an African or European swallow.
+Freljil Hungi It's also funny because it's so ridiculous it is hilarious!
Freljil Hungi Got to know these kind of things when your king
Freljil Hungij
Noooo, it's funny because it actually happens just before the witch/duck sketch; the knight is tying coconuts on a bird's leg loooool
"Hey, who was that?" "That's a king." "How can you tell?" "He hasn't got shit all over him."
+ed cooke You don't vote for kings.
"The Lady of the Lake-- her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!"
+Stephanie Briggs Soggy old blondes with their backsides in ponds is no basis for a system of government. If I went around saying I was an emperor because some watery tart lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
The line actually goes: Listen mate, strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
+cammameil I was quoting it as I remember it in Spamalot, which is a stage adaptation. I was in a production back in June.
Weird enough, this movie taught me loads about swallows.
"How do you know so much about swallows?"
"Well you know you have to know these things when you're king you know"
BrickFire22, what do you mean, African of European
Porn teaches you how to swallow loads
then you must know this:
what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Magnus Juul African or European
At the end, MY EAAAAARS
12Jakeyboy rip headphones users
WHAT!?
Monty Python is the ultimate definition for the theatre of the absurd. So hilariously absurd! XD
nGon- It is a silly place!
Right. Get on with it.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter It's only a model.
Insert CleverName Shhh.
I love how they just ignored Arthur in favor of their own line of dialogue.
The intellectual peasants and guards were always my favorite part of this movie.
the pause at 1:26 is just fucking brilliant, as well as the delivery of the second "am i right?"
I know right, it's not just their writing that's brilliant, the delivery is on point!
when you ask a question on tumblr.
"It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut." Brilliant!
Coconuts have over the years grown in size due to evolution of the species.
Some say those knights are still arguing about how a swallow would carry a coconut to this day
Good Lord NO!!!!! not in that HOUSE of COMEDY surely not?
@@josephheiskell3493 it has come full circle
Ah, Monty Python. I grew up watching this stuff and it still makes me grin
what a great comment
Me: what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow.
Siri: About 25mph for a European swallow. You have to know these things when you're a virtual assistant you know. HAHAHA
It’s even better for me cuz I have my phone set to English mode
I just did it and she said “The last person who asked me that ended up in a crevasse”
Except European swallows travel in kilometers.
Omg thanks for the idea! Just tried this with my Google assistant and it says:
About 30kmph (24mph) but significantly slower when carrying coconut shells 😂
Huh, I didn’t know that…
*begins screaming as I fly up into the air and then down into the Gorge of Eternal Peril*
If it were so difficult a thing to grasp that a man could have coconuts with him then how the hell does he know what a coconut is in the first place?
+hiimchrisj Maybe he went on vacation during the winter.
Frowned at your nonsensical question but then understood when I read your channel name. It'll be OK.
What if a seagull ate an african swallow who was carrying a coconut, then travelled all the way to Mercia with this coconut hanging from his beak? There he might have found a suitable mate, another seagull who was carrying yet another coconut from yet another african swallow. They enjoyed a lovely evening flying around the coast, holding wings... when they went back to their nest the coconuts were gone.
a relatively intelligent seagull would never leave it's coconut unprotected
Not if the seagulls needed some quality time alone away from their nest to mend their relationship's many issues.
Aurex By Jove I think you've got it. Lol.
I read all of this in the ridiculous British accent lol
I’m quite certain gulls are not predatory toward other fowl, preferring the boons of the sea and such. Yes, I find it highly doubtful that a seagull should prey upon an African Swallow, even more so when you suggest that it happened twice.
"It's not a question of where he GRIPS it, it's a simple matter of weight ratio. A five-ounce bird cannot carry a ten-ounce nut!"
I've always loved this part so much. XD
"The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin
or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not
strangers to our land."
+Supreme "Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"
Not at all. They can be carried.
*plover
lmao I just noticed he said "plumber" in his original post.
Is he suggesting plumbers migrate?
@@TonyEnglandUK They're in search of lost princesses
Imagine if this were only a minute longer....the knowledge we could have learned
"where did you get the coconuts?" such a simple phrase but it gets me every time :)
I once saw a coconut shell running away while dragging two mutilated human bodies... I swear I saw shit that day...
It must be true. Why would a lover of anal possibly lie?
Why do I see you commenting all over the place? I don't think I've seen one account on so many videos I watch more times than I've seen you.
I remember when my best friend and I were in grade 8 back in 06 and we did a parody of this for class, only 2 of our classmates got the reference and no one else laughed.. not even the teacher. sad.
Taryn DeCicco I did a one man show of this scene for my acting class in high school. No one got it. Powered through the entire thing. made my teacher cry though. It was weird
Morons
I quote Monty Python in my life. No one gets it, not even "A duck!"
@@CATDHD
Exactly. So logically,
I can tell this isn't a documentary
These Englishmen are using a unit besides the Metric system
Alot of brits use standard.
Someone You Don't Know The imperial system is still used. Speed limits are in mph.
Nearly all brits and Irish use imperial outside of schools
Keelan Murphy irish? Maybe in the north or the elderly
Raul Petrascu take it from a young irish person . Imperials still fairly popular
What if a coconut's carried by an Asian swallow?
lol
The Asian swallow is too small. It doesn't have the wingspan to carry a one pound coconut. The question of lift to weight ratios comes into play.
Everyone forgets the Antarctica swallow.
@Chris Person
I think most people just call those penguins.
What about a Spanish swallow?
"Listen, in order to maintain air speed velocity . . . "
"a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?"
"please!"
"am i right?"
"im not interested"
LMAO brilliant XD
0:54 Haha, the way he says it, so perfect and "historical", good acting of "King Arthur" all throughout. Very dignified and slightly suffering.
Best Monty Python movie
As much as I love this movie I think Life of Brian was a bit better.
i love the exasperation in arthur's voice but the guards ignored him and continued their line of conversation anyway.
"Hoi've got a lovely bunch of coconuts"
dee dee deeiy
they all are standing in a row...
small ones, big ones ! some as big as your head! :P
"...It could be carried by an African Swallow!"
I love how that other guard just comes up, and they start debating. xD
i love how this joke is revisited in the bridge scene and also in the beginning of the scene when he picks up his first knight...when the group brings the witch to the knight he's in the process of releasing a swallow with a string connected to a coconut
This is the way you do comedy
45 years later, and this joke (and the entire damn movie for that matter) is still fucking gold
"Well, it doesn't matter! Will you tell your master that Arthur from the court of Camelot is here?"
"Listen, to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?"
You do realize that if Arthur is so smart in the rest of this film, the guard he's arguing with is probably the smartest guy in the entire film?
Something about hearing people from mid-evil times having a very intellectual argument and speaking math just gives me giggles.
Migrating Coconuts
(Achievement in mount and blade Warband)
One of the greatest movie scenes in the history of mankind.
"Patsy" 😂
this is the greatest conversation of all time
"What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?"
"Why not?"
xD best movie in the universe xD
Funniest opening scene in history.
Oh, goodness. This guy in my french class said this every day. No joke. It was just absolutely ridiculous!
That's what they actually use in almost all movies with horses :P Very rarely is the clip-clopping you hear actually coming from the horse, usually they over-dub nearly all sound effects and coconuts are what they use for horses xD
We need more medieval comedies like this...
You'd think they'd also point out that King Arthur is not riding a horse yet he's claimed to have ridden the length and breadth of the land!
If this conversation was in CZcams, it would sound something like: " as a Coconut myself I can assure coconuts migrate"
jesus christ that audio spike at the end
Nobody respects monty python because monty python is smart witty humor everyone these days only like humor that does all the work for you but humor like this that makes you think and call bs on anything is gold.
Preach it!
Wait. Who doesn't respect Monty Python?
Yes the main attribute is being allowed to criticize its refreshing
ok now I'm deaf thanks to the last noise. thank you.
"I am King Arthur and this is my servant Patsy..." lol
by far one of my most favourite movie scenes
This sets the tone for the whole movie - absolute silliness. Classic Python.
it never gets old, not once, ever.
This has got to be my favorite line of all time.
this never gets old
The delivery on that line is just fantastic
Internet arguments in a coconut (denser on multiple parameters than a nut and its shell).
These two guys are probably the smartest men at this time period. They can do math, which pretty much nobody knew at the time, they're using Imperial measurements, which weren't even a thing yet, knew that coconuts weren’t from England, knew how fast swallows beat their wings, knew time measurements, and knew that African swallows don’t migrate.
"Well, when you're a king you need to know these things"
"It's a simple question of weight ratios!" God this is hilarious! Could watch it over & over!
Best start to a movie ever
I loved that part. The tie in with this scene was hilarious.
wow..forgot how much i luuuuv this movie :)
lol i love that line...
"a five ounce bird can not carry a one pound coconut!"
I learned more about physics from this movie than I did in high school when I actually took a physics class...lol
Did this sketch in my theatre class....greatest choice I've ever made
One of the best scenes. :)
Surpassed only by "How can a guy have a hook on his FOOT?"
This is truly the greatest conversations in the history of humanity.
This is by far the greatest and deepest conversation in history...
The way these guys did comedy. That question caught me off guard 😂😂😂
Haha, my favorite line is the arguement "well, it doesn't matter!"
I just wanted to respond to a 17 year old comment
I love this way too much.
when you're on the internet
No better comedy has ever been written.
"i am,
and this is my trusted servant Pattsy!!!"
XD
Notice how this comes back altroughout the movie! And not just in the word game at the end :)
I didn't know that! That's pretty awesome.
later in the movie a swallow carries a coconut
May this clown never die.
I love the throwaway gag later on where Sir Bedevere is introduced silently dropping a swallow tied to a coconut. :D
The moment i heard the horse gallop and saw patsy banging the coconuts i knew this would not be a disappointment lmao.
Pull the other one! is one of the best sayings lol.
the whole movie is the greatest
Best scientific discussion I've seen in a while.
OH so that's how he knew the 3 questions.
@smokedaddy258
Yup. Coconuts float, and are designed that way in order to ride the ocean and wash up on far off beaches.
However, sixth century Mercia was landlocked.
"He could grip it by the husk!" My fav part :DDDD
@BubblesEternal yes this is the starting of the movie, and the bridge scene later one, actually this movie is on youtube in case you havnt watched it.
And this is why he was later able to cross the bridge of death
Brilliant 4th wall break
This so saved Arthur at the 3 questions.
mwahaha, thank you for adding this. It IS brilliant xD
OK. I just spent part of my life listening to a discussion on whether a swallow could carry a coconut to England as it migrated. Thanks Monty Python!
I love this movie