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You don’t frighten us, English pig dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called “Arthur King,” you and all your silly English K-nig-hts.

— French Knight · Monty Python and the Holy Grail

A battered metal pot with a wooden spoon and a draped white cloth sits on small grey castle-like blocks.
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The speaker launches a string of absurd insults, mixing threats about bottoms with nose-blowing and a stretched pronunciation of knights. The taunting language makes the exchange read as deliberately ridiculous. Its comic energy comes from piling on increasingly silly expressions of contempt rather than developing a coherent argument.

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