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        <mattext texttype="text/html">When people think of "British humour", one of the names that come to mind is Monty Python. Here is the sketch that gave the word "spam" a new meaning.</mattext>
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        <mattext label="heading" texttype="text/html">Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam...</mattext>
        <mattext label="instructions" texttype="text/html">Here is a classic 1970 Monty Python sketch. The word "spam" meaning "unwanted e-mail" comes from it. At the time, though, "spam" was only canned pork meat. The sketch starts when Mr and Mrs Bun land in a cafe full of Vikings.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As you have heard in the previous activity, the accent may seem rather strange, but what is going on is pretty straightforward. &lt;b&gt;Watch the video first&lt;/b&gt;, then read the sentences and &lt;b&gt;choose the right option&lt;/b&gt;. If necessary, watch the video again. (Video length: 3'33".)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img vspace="0" hspace="3" border="0" align="texttop" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_f7_vgiYMQJw/S-Fw8gg7MLI/AAAAAAAAAGA/Gad26FCsSzs/s128/pista.jpg" /&gt;Put the mouse on the &lt;b&gt;hint&lt;/b&gt; buttons if you need &lt;b&gt;help&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;img vspace="0" hspace="3" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_f7_vgiYMQJw/S-FlTHUCRuI/AAAAAAAAAEo/oyTeMAfpI34/s128/fbck.JPG"/&gt;When you have finished, click on the &lt;b&gt;feedback&lt;/b&gt; button for information about the &lt;b&gt;language and cultural references in the video&lt;/b&gt;.</mattext>
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            <cuepoint sec="10" texttype="text/html">"Morning." &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Morning."</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="12.4" texttype="text/html">"What have you got, then?"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="13.9" texttype="text/html">"Well, there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; ...</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="26.2" texttype="text/html">"... spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; ...</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="32.1" texttype="text/html">"... spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam; ...</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="38.1" texttype="text/html">"... or lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam."</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="45.5" texttype="text/html">"Have you got anything without spam in it?"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="48.3" texttype="text/html">"Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam: that's not got much spam in it."</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="52" texttype="text/html">"I don't want any spam!"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="53.5" texttype="text/html">"Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?" &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"That's got spam in it!"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="57.2" texttype="text/html">"Not as much as spam, egg, sausage and spam."</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="59.4" texttype="text/html">"Look, could I have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam?"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="64.8" texttype="text/html">"Ugh!" &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"What do you mean, ugh? I don't like spam"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="68.4" texttype="text/html">"Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam!</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="75.7" texttype="text/html">"Lovely spam, wonderful spam! Lovely spam, wonderful spam!" &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="82" texttype="text/html">"You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam." &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Why not?"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="86.1" texttype="text/html">"No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, spam and sausage, would it?" &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"I don't like spam!"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="91.3" texttype="text/html">"Don't make a fuss, dear. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam –</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="96.3" texttype="text/html">"Spam, spam, spam, spam – &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"– spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam and spam."</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="99.1" texttype="text/html">"Baked beans are off." &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Well can I have spam instead?"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="101.8" texttype="text/html">"You mean spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam?"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Yes."</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="107.3" texttype="text/html">"Arrggh! Shut up! Shut up!" &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"– lovely spam, wonderful spam! Lovely spam –"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="112.5" texttype="text/html">"Great boobies, honey bun. My lower intestine is full of spam, egg, spam, bacon, spam, tomato, spam –</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="120" texttype="text/html">"Spam, spam, spam, spam –" &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Shut up!"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="122.5" texttype="text/html">"My nipples explode –"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Shut up!"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="124.9" texttype="text/html">"Lovely spam!"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="126.7" texttype="text/html">"Another great Viking victory was at the Green Midget cafe in Bromley.</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="130.6" texttype="text/html">"Once again the Viking strategy was the same. They sailed from these fjords here, ...</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="134.5" texttype="text/html">"... assembled at Trondheim and waited for the strong north-easterly winds to blow their oaken galleys to England, whence they sailed on May 23rd.</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="141.2" texttype="text/html">"Once in Bromley, they assembled in the Green Midget cafe ...</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="144.2" texttype="text/html">"... and spam selecting a spam particular spam item from the spam menu, would spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam –"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="150.2" texttype="text/html">"Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam! Lovely spam, wonderful spam!"</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="156.3" texttype="text/html">&lt;i&gt;[on screen]: "In 1970, Monty Python's Flying Circus lay in ruins, and then the words on the screen said..."&lt;/i&gt;</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="163.4" texttype="text/html">&lt;i&gt;[Note the "spam" and other ingredients in the credits.]&lt;/i&gt;</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="179.2" texttype="text/html">"Haagbard Etheldronga and his Viking hordes are currently appearing in 'Grin and Pillage It' at the Jodrell Theatre, Colwyn Bay.</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="186.5" texttype="text/html">"'The Dirty Hungarian Phrase Book' is available from Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Price: a kiss on the bum."</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="283.3" texttype="text/html">.</cuepoint>
            <cuepoint sec="203.5" texttype="text/html">&lt;i&gt;Excerpt from &lt;/i&gt;Monty Python's Flying Circus&lt;i&gt;, Episode 25; first aired on BBC, 15 December 1970.&lt;/i&gt;</cuepoint>
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          <mattext texttype="text/html">spam. * The Vikings have used their strategy</mattext>
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        <mattext texttype="text/html">Informally, the "good" in greetings is not said, so we have "Morning", or "Night".&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The food items that are not spam (or lobster Thermidor) are the typical ingredients of an English breakfast: eggs, bacon, sausage, baked beans and tomato. The tomato is grilled in the oven.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Lobster Thermidor is a French dish consisting of a creamy cheesy mixture of cooked lobster meat, egg yolks, and brandy or sherry, stuffed into a lobster shell, and optionally served with an oven-browned cheese crust. The sauce must contain mustard (typically powdered mustard) in order to be true to the original recipe" (From "Lobster Thermidor", &lt;i&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/i&gt;, http://en.wikipedia.org/.) Mornay sauce is Béchamel sauce with cheese. "Crevette" is the French word for shrimp.</mattext>
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        <mattext texttype="text/html">.</mattext>
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        <mattext texttype="text/html">Interjections are also different from one language to another! "Ugh!" shows disgust, while "Ouch!" shows pain, and "Arrggh!" shows annoyance. One has been popularized by Homer Simpson: "D'oh!" (pronounced like "dough"), which expresses anger or frustration at one's own stupidity.</mattext>
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        <mattext texttype="text/html">In British English, if a particular dish is "off", it is not available at the restaurant.</mattext>
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        <mattext texttype="text/html">The Hungarian appears earlier in the episode. "A Hungarian enters a tobacconist's shop and begins a dialogue with the tobacconist; he wants to buy some cigarettes but his phrasebook is poorly written and full of phrases that do not resemble in the slightest what he wants to say. Many of them are plainly bizarre and some of them are mildly sexual in nature." (From "Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook", &lt;i&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/i&gt;, http://en.wikipedia.org/). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the "Spam" sketch, the Hungarian uses the same phrasebook, and instead of saying "good morning, madam", he says to the waitress, "great boobies, honey bun". "Boobies" is informal for female breasts; "honey bun" is like "darling" or "sweetie". Some Python fans believe the Hungarian actually says "sperm" instead of "spam".&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The phrasebook is mentioned again in the final credits: a book of those characteristics can be bought at "Her Majesty's Stationery Office" for "a kiss on the bum" (the "bum" is the bottom.) "Stationery" is paper, pens, pencils, erasers and related objects.</mattext>
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        <mattext texttype="text/html">The historian says, "&lt;i&gt;another&lt;/i&gt; victory" and "&lt;i&gt;once again&lt;/i&gt;": the Vikings have used this strategy before.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The historian speaks old-fashioned English. "Oaken" means made from an oak tree; now "oak" is used, both as a noun and as an adjective. "Whence" actually means "from where", which has a comic effect: the historian uses an old-fashioned (and therefore "highbrow" or "literary") word, but he uses it wrongly, as the Vikings sail "to England", not "from England".&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bromley is a large town in Greater London; that's why the London accent.</mattext>
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