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.
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
"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
"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?
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.
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
You know, they were gonna use real horses, but the film's budget ($365,274) didn't cover it. That's also the reason for the abrupt ending: they WERE supposed to get the grail, but the film's budget ran out before they could, so they did the abrupt ending instead.
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.
Somtimes they creak like old branches rubbing together in the wionter wind; then again some younger trees copulations result in flying bark chips and seriously dislocated leaves too. A little dirt gets thrown up from the roots. It can be dangerous to be near this in some larger old growth forests ( falling lims, pine cones, showers of coconuts et al. Of course some old growth opine forests have been burnt when high levels of friction mixed with copious amounts of rosin have resulted in a fire.
@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.
"i'm not interested!!" lol i love this scene!! ive used it soooo many times, even in school. my latin teacher used to let me quote whole scenes in class when we had nothin to do. hehe good times...
I'm just now looking at this for the hundredth time and noticing that the coconut horse clops are not only out of place because of the obvious, but because they're riding over grass and dirt.
I taped them and forwarded them to both Art Bell and more recently Sherry Shriner. I am still waiting to see them posted in detail on their respective websites of course. Gott run for now; supper approaches! I have also heard them too but that was what prompter me to attempt to save this new breakthrough for contemplation and pondering by humanity. Infrared video? Maybe next summer when the sap comes back up.
The amusement comes from the fact that this joke, albeit funny in itself, leads up to another joke later on in the movie, The Bridge scene. Dedication to comedy. :P
They didn't have the budget for horses so they used someone running around behind, making clichéd horse sounds with coconuts, to stand in for the horses. This bit goes meta by having the guard deliberately draw attention to the joke only to end up discussing the origins of the mechanism behind the joke (i.e. "where did the coconuts come from?").
no.. you are not the only one. I have a coconut in half in my dresser right now. and the 43 beats per second gave me an A+ on a quiz.. it was the final bonus question, and we aced it if we got it right. :D
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.
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
"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
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
"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.
I love how they just ignored Arthur in favor of their own line of dialogue.
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.
"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.
At the end, MY EAAAAARS
12Jakeyboy rip headphones users
WHAT!?
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!
The intellectual peasants and guards were always my favorite part of this movie.
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
when you ask a question on tumblr.
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.
Imagine if this were only a minute longer....the knowledge we could have learned
"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
"where did you get the coconuts?" such a simple phrase but it gets me every time :)
0:54 Haha, the way he says it, so perfect and "historical", good acting of "King Arthur" all throughout. Very dignified and slightly suffering.
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,
"Listen, in order to maintain air speed velocity . . . "
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 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
Best Monty Python movie
As much as I love this movie I think Life of Brian was a bit better.
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
"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
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?
One of the greatest movie scenes in the history of mankind.
"...It could be carried by an African Swallow!"
I love how that other guard just comes up, and they start debating. xD
Migrating Coconuts
(Achievement in mount and blade Warband)
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
"a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?"
"please!"
"am i right?"
"im not interested"
LMAO brilliant XD
2:12 weird beep
If this conversation was in UA-cam, it would sound something like: " as a Coconut myself I can assure coconuts migrate"
"What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?"
"Why not?"
This is the way you do comedy
this is the greatest conversation of all time
"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?
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!
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.
Internet arguments in a coconut (denser on multiple parameters than a nut and its shell).
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
Something about hearing people from mid-evil times having a very intellectual argument and speaking math just gives me giggles.
ok now I'm deaf thanks to the last noise. thank you.
Funniest opening scene in history.
jesus christ that audio spike at the end
Oh, goodness. This guy in my french class said this every day. No joke. It was just absolutely ridiculous!
"It's a simple question of weight ratios!" God this is hilarious! Could watch it over & over!
You know, they were gonna use real horses, but the film's budget ($365,274) didn't cover it. That's also the reason for the abrupt ending: they WERE supposed to get the grail, but the film's budget ran out before they could, so they did the abrupt ending instead.
"Well, when you're a king you need to know these things"
This sets the tone for the whole movie - absolute silliness. Classic Python.
Coconut
Grants a major improvement to all stats for 5 minutes
"Are you suggesting cocnuts can migrate?"
this clip just really would not be complete without the painfully loud beep at the very last second of the video
“swallows flap their wings … at only 7-9 beats per second”
"Patsy" 😂
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
Surpassed only by "How can a guy have a hook on his FOOT?"
Another example where I swear Monty Python invented TROLLING.
This has got to be my favorite line of all time.
We need more medieval comedies like this...
Haha, my favorite line is the arguement "well, it doesn't matter!"
I just wanted to respond to a 17 year old comment
xD best movie in the universe xD
as soon as he says "in order to maintain air speed velocity" i just can't hold it
The way these guys did comedy. That question caught me off guard 😂😂😂
later in the movie a swallow carries a coconut
"i am,
and this is my trusted servant Pattsy!!!"
XD
In the witch sketch you can see one of the knight releasing a swallow with a coconut attached.
Somtimes they creak like old branches rubbing together in the wionter wind; then again some younger trees copulations result in flying bark chips and seriously dislocated leaves too. A little dirt gets thrown up from the roots. It can be dangerous to be near this in some larger old growth forests ( falling lims, pine cones, showers of coconuts et al. Of course some old growth opine forests have been burnt when high levels of friction mixed with copious amounts of rosin have resulted in a fire.
Coconuts do migrate. They are designed to float on the ocean and be washed up by tides on distant beaches.
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
hahaha. Brilliant!
Notice how this comes back altroughout the movie! And not just in the word game at the end :)
I love the throwaway gag later on where Sir Bedevere is introduced silently dropping a swallow tied to a coconut. :D
The delivery on that line is just fantastic
Best start to a movie ever
@AINGELPROJECT667
"Pull the other one." = "There's no way that you're King Arthur. You're pulling my leg."
"I am!" = "No, seriously. I'm King Arthur!"
@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.
by far one of my most favourite movie scenes
"i'm not interested!!" lol i love this scene!! ive used it soooo many times, even in school. my latin teacher used to let me quote whole scenes in class when we had nothin to do. hehe good times...
I'm just now looking at this for the hundredth time and noticing that the coconut horse clops are not only out of place because of the obvious, but because they're riding over grass and dirt.
I like this is referenced later when that king who tested the witch ( I'm forgetting his name RN) tied a coconut to two swallows and sends it off
From once crossing coconuts that did not splendour
This is truly the greatest conversations in the history of humanity.
And this is why he was later able to cross the bridge of death
From a Kingdom of coconuts that we could not find them
She is a Kingdom of coconuts
"I could grip it by the husk"...I say that whenever it fits the cicumstances..nobody gets it anymore.
I taped them and forwarded them to both Art Bell and more recently Sherry Shriner. I am still waiting to see them posted in detail on their respective websites of course. Gott run for now; supper approaches! I have also heard them too but that was what prompter me to attempt to save this new breakthrough for contemplation and pondering by humanity. Infrared video? Maybe next summer when the sap comes back up.
No better comedy has ever been written.
@go2mikerenzi
That was Sir Bedevere right before the girl was brought before him accused of being a witch.
my senior quote in high school was "Are you suggesting coconuts migrate". Best movie ever!
i love how silly this movie is and its main characters, then there are these insignificant characters with super intelligence lol
"a five oz bird could not carry a one pound coconut!"
Or a 142 gram bird could not carry a 454 gram coconut
The amusement comes from the fact that this joke, albeit funny in itself, leads up to another joke later on in the movie, The Bridge scene. Dedication to comedy. :P
They didn't have the budget for horses so they used someone running around behind, making clichéd horse sounds with coconuts, to stand in for the horses. This bit goes meta by having the guard deliberately draw attention to the joke only to end up discussing the origins of the mechanism behind the joke (i.e. "where did the coconuts come from?").
i think thats the smartest man in the whole movie
no.. you are not the only one. I have a coconut in half in my dresser right now. and the 43 beats per second gave me an A+ on a quiz.. it was the final bonus question, and we aced it if we got it right. :D