Monty Python's humor often deals with remembering specific scenes. http://www.armory.com/swallowscenes.html#question The swallow bird reference is from the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
Soldiers tease King Arthur's knights for clopping coconut shells together to create the sound of riding horses (the knights are hopping along on foot, pretending to be riding on horses). The soldiers debate where the coconuts could have come from, arguing perhaps a swallow bird dropped the coconut during migration. Later, the Bridgekeeper of the Bridge of Death asks challenge questions, the final one being "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen(as in "not carrying coconut") swallow?". It is a joke circling around back to the non-sense debate the soldiers had in the earlier scene Of course, Pythonistas like to have their own twist, therefore a project for improving the performance of Python is like letting a swallow bird fly without having to carry a coconut! ----- Original Message ---- From: Roshan Mathews <rmath...@gmail.com> To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers@python.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:56:05 PM Subject: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python Since everyone seems to be mailing in today. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549 By one of the people behind Unladen Swallow incidentally. What's with that name, btw? Quite the mouthful, hard to swallow, so to speak. Regards, Roshan Mathews _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers