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| No, they weren't making it up. There really was a solar eclipse in July of 1972. The most popular reference to it was Carly Simon's- "You flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia to see the Total Eclipse of the Sun" though I seem to recall the weather being crap here in the Northeast on that day. (Stavro Arrgolus) |
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Announcer(Michael Palin): And now (fanfare) for the first time ever on record (fanfare) we proudly present the 1972 Eclipse of the Sun! (fanfare)
Brian (John Cleese): Well, here we are at Lords, waiting for the eclipse of the sun...Peter.
Peter (Eric Idle): Yes, the ground's in tip-top condition and I think we can expect some first rate eclipsing this morning...Brian.
Brian: Well, we're certainly all looking forward to it very much up here...Jim.
Jim (Graham Chapman): And to look at the eclipse of the sun through...
Peter: Of the sun through?
Jim: Yes, to look at the eclipse of the sun through...
Brian: I don't understand.
Jim: To look through, at the eclipse of the sun...
Brian: What?
Jim: I haven't finished... We have this (ooh) surely, magnificent...
Brian: Absolutely.
Jim: ...quite superb...
Brian: Hear, hear.
Jim: Quite agree.
Peter: What?
Jim: Eh...piece of smoked glass.
Brian: Absolutely.
Jim: Which must be fully... (ooh)
Brian: Easily...
Peter: Must be!
Brian: Absolutely.
Jim: No question.
Peter: Jolly good!
Terry: Start again!
Jim: Well, here we are at Lord's with this piece of smoked trout...
Peter: ...glass!
Jim: Oh, please?... oh, oh, glass!... waiting quite superbly for the eclipse of the ...sunlike object.
Brian: And here, if I'm very much mistaken, comes the eclipse.
Jim: Yes, you are very much mistaken. Here it comes...Peter.
Peter: Yes, I can't see anyone stopping it now!
Brian: No, it's all over bar the shouting.
Jim: The sands of time must surely be drawing to a close for this plucky solar... (thunder)... oh!?
Brian: Oh!?
Peter: Oh!?
Jim: Oh.
Brian: Rain!
Peter: Rain!
Jim: Rain... Uh-hmm... Well, what a shame, the rain is beginning to come down now here at Lord's..
Brian: Light's going, too...
Peter: Yes, going really quite fast...
Jim: By Jove, it's getting quite murky up here now...
Brian: You can hardly see your glass in front of your face...
Jim: What a shame. Well, that's it from Lord's then, I'm afraid, but we'll be back here again the moment there is any sign of improvement. (Stavro Arrgolus) |
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