A Smile, Two Bangs and A Religion

This is where I got the title of my blog and it's also one of my favorite Python sketches "Live at the Refreshment Room, Bletchley":


Here's another favorite: Tonight, mollusks.


My all-time favorite Monty Python sketch is this one, which has to do with "woody" sounding words as opposed to "tinny" sounding words:


Most of the Python sketches I loved were written by Eric Idle, who had a degree in English. I love to play with words and phrases. My degree is in Linguistics, the study of language, which includes slang and dialects: