What to the Monks in Monty Python and the Holy Grail sing?
For reference they sing “Pie Iesu Domine. Dona eis Requiem.) A: It is Latin for “Merciful Lord Jesus. Grant them rest.” It’s a phrase from the Catholic funeral mass. Q: I heard you say “Pythonesque” earlier you made that word up! A: Actually, no we didnt. It appears in the Oxford English Dictionary. The entry reads: Pythonesque \ ‘pi, th’nesk \ adj.: [Monty Python’s Flying Circus + -esque] after the style of, or resembling the humour of, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a popular British television comedy series that first ran from 1969-1974 and is noted for its absurdist or surrealist humour. So there.
