A Cycling Tour of Clodagh Rodgers, and Other Rabbit Holes

For some reason, I got to thinking about Michael Palin of Monty Python fame tonight.

That led me to find and watch the Monty Python episode called "The Cycling Tour," in which Palin plays a cheerful idiot cyclist who crashes his way through North Cornwall until he ends up in front of a firing squad in Soviet Russia because a food scientists he happened to meet along the way was injured in an auto accident, thought he was Scottish folk singer Clodagh Rodgers, and then a mix of Clodagh Rodgers and Leon Trotsky.

So now I'm listening to Clodagh Rodgers on YouTube, having descended further into a really odd YouTube  wossname . . . rabbit hole.

Michael Palin really does a passable Rosemary Wood too.

Guess Who's Got A New Shovel, Then?

 

Posted on a friend's Facebook feed, an homage to the humorous talents of one Michael Palin.

And Palin's Eric Olthwaite is a character who'll always be close to my heart, because Dad loved to chuckle at him and his shovel. And it is a clever story, about the most dull human being ever in existence. That speaks to me on a spiritual level.