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Putting A 50-Foot Dead Parrot In Potters Field Park

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Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue. Lovely plumage.

The Monty Python reunion in London began on July 1, and after a 10-day break, picks up again tonight at the O2 Arena for the final five nights that will see Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin on the same stage together, doing silly things one more time. Of course, it's not all silliness--the first five-night run of the performance raised more than £20,000 for five different charities chosen by the Python members, by giving those charities the opportunity to auction off the right to perform in a sketch alongside the cast.

To celebrate the achievements of the Monty Python crew, UKTV channel Gold--which will air the final performance of the reunion on Sunday--contracted with sculptor Iain Prendergast to create a 50-foot fiberglass version of the famous “Norwegian Blue” parrot. The parrot, which is famous for being dead from the moment it was sold, was placed on Monday at Potters Fields Park in South London, near Tower Bridge. This is both a fine reminder to tune in on Sunday to the broadcast and an outstanding opportunity to inspire countless visitors to declare in increasingly frantic tones that “This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It’s a stiff!" Because if there’s anything that you need to commission a 50-foot fiberglass sculpture to get people who know every word to famous Monty Python sketches to do, it’s to recite the funnier bits of those sketches to anyone within earshot.
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That's fantastic! :)
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Does it count as an ex-parrot if it's never been alive in the first place?
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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Does it count as an ex-parrot if it's never been alive in the first place?
It's an homage to an ex-parrot.
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Stupid ass of me, wrong thread. I'll move it to the Cool Pic thread. :oops:
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I was wondering about that. Thought maybe it was a dead-parrot transport.
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