Ex-Python on Airport Security
Mar 10, 2005 | 1:00 pm
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Ex-Python on Airport Security
I thought this excerpt taken from a Washington Post review of the new book by former Monty Python member Eric Idle, "The Greedy B^st^rd Diary" (a journal of Idle's 2003 North American tour), might get a chuckle or two. (The full review is at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2005Mar9.html
On the tour Idle traveled mostly by rock-star coach because, as he observed, "I like the idea of slipping offstage into a bed that takes me to the next gig, rather than having to line up to show strangers my socks at airports."
But to get to the first show on the tour, in Vermont, Idle flew.
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"I passed through Toronto Airport, qualifying nicely for all the extra searches available. Stopped for the third time in ten yards by an Indian gentleman, I ask him politely if I am irresistible to all Asian men. . . . The only compensation is that my hand baggage is then searched by three of the most beautiful security women I have ever seen . . . I cannot resist telling them this, and they smile in that way women have when you compliment them on what they know already. Having passed through more steps than a recovering alcoholic I am, finally, safe to travel."
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On the tour Idle traveled mostly by rock-star coach because, as he observed, "I like the idea of slipping offstage into a bed that takes me to the next gig, rather than having to line up to show strangers my socks at airports."
But to get to the first show on the tour, in Vermont, Idle flew.
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"I passed through Toronto Airport, qualifying nicely for all the extra searches available. Stopped for the third time in ten yards by an Indian gentleman, I ask him politely if I am irresistible to all Asian men. . . . The only compensation is that my hand baggage is then searched by three of the most beautiful security women I have ever seen . . . I cannot resist telling them this, and they smile in that way women have when you compliment them on what they know already. Having passed through more steps than a recovering alcoholic I am, finally, safe to travel."
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