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You know, life is all about choices. Mine is to write 500 words rather than 250, and record an existing text. Not that I don't like to talk to the whole class at 8.30 in the morning, but I'm not sure they'll be interested in my story :)

So I had to find a video/audio file with a transcription. Didn't really know what I wanted to talk about, so I thought "why not talking complete nonsense ??" and I picked the script of Monty Python's Holy Grail. If you don't know this film, well... just watch it !!

I just chose the narrator's lines, because I wasn't in the mood of playing all the other characters :P
Here it is...

"The wise Sir Bedemir was the first to join King Arthur's knights, but other illustrious names were soon to follow: Sir Launcelot the Brave; Sir Galahad the Pure; and Sir Robin the Not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Launcelot who had nearly fought the Dragon of Agnor, who had nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill; and the aptly named Sir Not-appearing-in-this-film.  Together they formed a band whose names and deeds were to be retold throughout the centuries, the Knights of the Round Table."

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"Defeat at the castle seems to have utterly disheartened King Arthur.  The ferocity of the French taunting took him completely by surprise, and Arthur became convinced that a new strategy was required if the quest for the Holy Grail were to be brought to a successful conclusion.  Arthur, having consulted his closest knights, decided that they should separate, and search for the Grail individually.  Now, this is what they did."

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"Sir Launcelot had saved Sir Galahad from almost certain temptation, but they were still no nearer the Grail.  Meanwhile, King Arthur and Sir Bedemir, not more than a swallow's flight away, had discovered something.  Oh, that's an unladen swallow's flight, obviously. I mean, they were more than two laden swallow's flights away -- four, really, if they hadn't a cord of line between them. I mean, if the birds were walking and dragging—

CROWD:  Get on with it!

NARRATOR:  Oh, anyway, on to scene twenty-four, which is a smashing scene with some lovely acting, in which Arthur discovers a vital clue, in which there aren't any swallows, although I think you can hear a starling -oolp!"

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"And so Arthur and Bedemir and Sir Robin set out on their search to find the enchanter of whom the old man had spoken in Scene 24. Beyond the forest they met Launcelot and Galahad, and there was much rejoicing.

ALL:  Yay!  Yay!

NARRATOR:  In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels.  And there was much rejoicing.

ALL:  Yay!

NARRATOR:  A year passed.  Winter changed into Spring.  Spring changed into Summer.  Summer changed back into Winter.  And Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn.  Until one day..."

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"As the horrendous Black Beast lunged forward, escape for Arthur and his knights seemed hopeless.  When, suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack.  [ulk]  The cartoon peril was no more.  The Quest for the Holy Grail could continue."

The recording will be online soon !!