March 21 -- To the Editor: To misquote Monty Python: “nobody ever expects a coronavirus pandemic.” This is why it is necessary to come together as a community (locally, nationally and internati… ...

1970's Monty Python created a skit where a man enters a pet store with a cage containing a parrot he bought there and the parrot is dead. The clerk says “no, the parrot is resting”.

The letter is written by Mike Forstater, who produced Monty Python and the Holy Grail by in 1975. The censors had wanted the film to lose numerous vulgar phrases and references: as many "shits" as ...