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If I went ’round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
— Monty Python and the Holy Grail • 1975
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker mocks the idea that power can come from a random weapon-lobbing incident. If they went around declaring themselves Emperor on that basis, they say, people would have them locked away, so authority ought to rest on something sturdier than an absurd gesture.
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