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Life of Brian - The People's Front of Judea

layniann · 1.4M views · 2012-04-26 · 1:42

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The People's Front of Judea scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian, a sketch about rival revolutionary groups.

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cadamsdotcom · 2026-08 · Joke / meme

"We are the People's Front of Judea!" "What about the popular front?" "He's over there." [VIDEO]

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082349872349872 · 2025-07 · Joke / meme

Aha, I'd originally confused your D with the DISC D irectness. Paul's subaltern comment reminded me strongly of "Life of Brian": [VIDEO] Re: Rao, I found that I had to deliberately read [LINK] in small chunks with large breaks, because otherwise it all blurs together in terms of being a bunch of h saps being awful to each other. More specifically to his introduction, one can see big differences in the "tournament" between say 1250 and 1500: over that period they go from being a sort of open wargame with a racing-for-pinkslips feel played over the several km of hill and dale between villages, to a sport played in an enclosed pitch in front of an audience, limited to vetted entrants with the appropriate gear.

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thomassmith65 · 2025-02 · Joke / meme

Left-leaning people famously tend to disagree with each other (eg: as lampooned in [VIDEO] ). If 'hippies' here refers to the original hippies back in the 1960s, they ran the whole range from far pipebombs-in-the-name-of-communism left, to centrist.

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