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The "It's" Man-hermit or castaway?

Unless the Pythons themselves have described this character as a hermit, I think it's more accurate that he is a castaway, from a shipwreck or some other disaster. His tattered clothes tend to indicate that he has survived some disaster and a long period of isolation and a long trek back to civilization. Consider the show openings in which he came up out of the surf onto a shore. It's a minor detail, to be sure, but I recommend reviewing and updating this.---theBaron0530 5. October 2010 12:30 ET

Title - not from Goldfinger?

The text implies that in 1966, a group of Briton's reached back 50 years for an obscure WWI reference to create their name. Is there any confirmation that the title wasn't inspired by 'Pussy Galore's Flying Circus' from the popular 1964 British film Goldfinger. Seems like less of a stretch. PLawrence99cx (talk) 18:02, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well:
  1. Britons looks a lot better without the apostrophe.
  2. It's not that obscure. A lot of people will have read WWI stories, seen films etc etc. There is no surprising usage here.
  3. Probably not, but then confirmation of a negative is often a wee bit difficult to find. As far as I know there is also no confirmation that it wasn't telephoned to them by the Pope or discovered inside a fortune cookie.
  4. No, it seems like much, much more of a stretch. When the programme title came out I was wholly unsurprised by it, assumed it was a WWI reference, and didn't try to connect it with James Bond. But that's all WP:OR so, y'know ... nah.
Best wishes, and sorry for the slow reply, 82.34.71.202 (talk) 23:01, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The Pope?? Surely you mean The Bishop!!? Martinevans123 (talk) 23:19, 27 January 2018 (UTC) [reply]

Selected anniversaries - Main page

Hi, just highlighting that if the many [citation needed] tags can be resolved, this article would be eligible for the selected anniversaries, which features on the main page, on Octber 5 for the first broadcast. Whizz40 (talk) 19:59, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Music clarification please

Hello. The last paragraph of the lead has this:

The series' theme tune is the first segment of John Philip Sousa's "The Liberty Bell", as played by the Band of the Grenadier Guards, and chosen because it was in the public domain and thus could be used without charge.

- which is interesting, but makes me go "yeah but no but" a bit, and seek clarification on the following two grounds:

  1. What do we mean "as played by"? What does that "as" do? It either was played by them, or it was not. So "played by" would be fine, if true, but "as played by" is weirdly ambiguous for no good reason.
  2. When we say it could be used without charge we are probably referring to the tune but not the recording. It's very unlikely that no-one was paid for that; either Python paid recording session fees (rubs hands together greedily) or, if they used an existing recording, say one by the Grenadier Guards (see what I did there?) then they would have had to pay for that. I can't see how the Guards band would have made a charitable donation of the tune to the Beeb and if they did then I am sure it can be referenced here. Otherwise, what I suspect we mean is that they did not have to pay composer royalties ... which is nice, but not a total freebie unless the Pythons played it themselves.

It would be great if someone with the knowledge/sources could please sort this out a bit.

Thanks and best wishes to all, 82.34.71.202 (talk) 11:34, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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