#splunge

The immortal Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson (Terry Jones) is interviewed, in a sense, by Eric Idle. By focusing perhaps just the slightest amount more on the side of the composer’s sobriquet, than on his contributions to the arts, Idle manages to cause an ever-increasing exasperation on the part of ol’ “Two Sheds”. Eventually the enraged and embattled composer is physically removed from the proceedings.

A supremely self-important movie producer (Graham Chapman) induces such alarm in his writers that Terry Jones coins an unlikely word. And that word is....Splunge. Chapman: Are you being indecisive?!? John Cleese: Yes! No! Perhaps!! Uncanny, unpinpointable humour by the greats of the genre.

A rather suspect foreign potentate (Michael Palin) plans to make off with plans for a balloon-like apparatus, while Graham Chapman has a remarkably difficult time finding the sideboard. Mr. Bartlett is once again denied access.A head-butt of untold power may be in the offing.

Fierce debates are waged, over the classification of a certain airborne vessel, and the subtle differences between Sitting and Drawing rooms.

Kyle Whitmire at AL.com

The late President Jacques Chirac of France said:

It’s better to have only a few friends than to have a lot of sycophants.    

([I]l vaut mieux avoir quelques amis que beaucoup de courtisans.)

Trump has no real friends and tries to make up for it by having an abundance of sycophants. The result is horrible government.

You absolutely need to have a few knowledgeable people around you who can give you unvarnished advice without risking their jobs.

Trump cabinet meetings, the few times they actually do happen, are probably much like this Monty Python sketch.