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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-n-i-g-g-i-t-s.

— French Knight  ·  Monty Python and the Holy Grail

A small yellow cheese castle stands among stones beneath a white flag against a blue sky.
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The speaker rejects being frightened and launches an elaborate string of absurd insults. Threats about bottoms, nose-blowing and the stretched pronunciation of knights make the defiance deliberately ridiculous. The comic energy comes from piling on expressions of contempt rather than making a coherent or convincing threat.

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