on behalf of a researcher

[Joel S. Berson]

Not what I remember, albeit faintly; it was more purely "it is what
it is".  Can anyone still watch the Graham Chapman episode this week?

Joel

At 2/24/2006 12:31 PM, you wrote:
>The 'is what it is' in Monty Python is in the Miss Anne Elk's Theory on
>Brontosauruses sketch, transcribed pretty well, I think, here:
>
>http://www.serve.com/bonzai/monty/classics/MissAnneElk
>
>The relevant line by Anne:
>
>...All brontosauruses are thin at one end; much, much thicker in the
>    middle and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I
>    have and which is mine and what it is, too.
>
>Damien Hall
>University of Pennsylvania

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