My hovercraft is full of eels - Oder: ‘The world is an absurd and silly place’
This phrase is used in a sketch about a badly translated English-Hungarian phrasebook from the British TV comedy show, Monty Python's Flying Circus. There's a video of the sketch on youtube.
My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages
Michael Palin: ‘The world is an absurd and silly place’
This summer’s Monty Python reunion was joyous, says Michael Palin. But that doesn’t mean he wishes he had stuck to comedy – or Hollywood .Stephen Moss, The Guardian, Saturday 6 September 2014
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Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 is published on 11 September by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages
Michael Palin: ‘The world is an absurd and silly place’
This summer’s Monty Python reunion was joyous, says Michael Palin. But that doesn’t mean he wishes he had stuck to comedy – or Hollywood .Stephen Moss, The Guardian, Saturday 6 September 2014
...
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 is published on 11 September by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

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