![]() WHISTLER AND WILDE: One of Shaw’s, one of Shaw’s. WHISTLER: –Before you arrive is pleasure, and after is a pain in the dong. SHAW: I…I merely meant, Your Majesty, that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark. 1930s), a global energy services firm based in Houston, Texas. Your Highness, you are also like a stream of bat’s piss. ![]() WHISTLER: Well, Your Highness, what I meant was that, like a doughnut, um, your arrival gives us pleasure…and your departure only makes us hungry for more. Read Learn Python the Hard Way A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code by Zed A. WILDE: Your Majesty is like a big jam doughnut with cream on the top. In the Python sketch, Wilde kicks off a round of witticisms with his famous line, “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” But things go rapidly downhill as the conversation turns into an exercise in heaping abuse on the Prince of Wales and pinning the blame on a rival: Written by the world-renowned Zed Shaw, this book of 52 hands-on projects is perfect for everyone whos written Python code but isnt yet comfortable taking. Zed Shaw Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series) 3rd Edition by Zed Shaw (Author) 4.1 525 ratings Part of: Zed Shaw's Hard Way (5 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 23. When Wilde reportedly said “I wish I had said that” in response to a witty remark by Whistler in about 1888, the painter famously retorted, “You will, Oscar, you will.” Shaw worked as a London theatre critic in the 1890s, and the Prince of Wales was a patron of the arts. Whistler was apparently jealous of Wilde’s success, and believed he had stolen many of his famous lines. Wilde was once a protégé of Whistler, but their friendship had deteriorated by 1895. ![]() As for the historical basis of the sketch, “There seems to be no evidence for the convivial triumvirate of Whistler, Wilde, and Shaw,” writes Darl Larsen in Monty Python’s Flying Circus: An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide, “especially as late as 1895, when Whistler was caring for his terminally ill wife and Wilde was in the early stages of his fall from grace.” Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest opened in February of that year, and shortly afterward he became embroiled in a legal battle with the Marquess of Queensberry that led eventually to his imprisonment for homosexuality. ![]()
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