A passionate fan of Monty Python and its film and TV incarnations, one especially fond of quoting verbatim whole sketches by heart, walking in Ministry of Silly Walks fashion or watching Monty Python videos online. Patterned, obviously, on "old boy," as in a graduate of a prestigious English public school, with the inevitable variants for various such, e.g., "Old Etonian," "Old Harrovian," "Old Reptonian," "Old Wykehamist," &c.
In Blackpool recently, I came across this rather campy Old Pythonian on the Promenade; he could whistle "The Lumberjack Song" while going into that rather disapproving Ministry of Silly Walks gait, all the while wearing a Pepperpot-type dress.
by Iludium Phosdex August 13, 2023