Terry Jones
Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry "Terry" Jonesis a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, historian and author. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth1 February 1942
CityColwyn Bay, Wales
amateur dramatic society spot
I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.
children love people
I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.
good potato
I'm a good cook; one of my specialities is reindeer and potato pie.
cheerfully life
I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!
I'd like something that peels potatoes really quickly - that would be wonderful.
cruelty england fair medieval
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
course funny history imagine laugh people
The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
bounce interested next october
We'll be interested to see if there's a bounce back next month, as there was in October 2001 after the 9/11 attacks,
bacon egg sausage spam tomato
Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam.
fewer
Well, there are getting to be fewer and fewer farms.
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It is a conundrum for us more than for the advertisers because we have to find a way over time to get paid for this information. For a Web site that derives some revenues from ads, it's our problem, and we have to figure out the right model.
kinds stay tailored
Those kinds of things I think will stay and get more sophisticated. I think it's going to be very tailored for the customer.
explore lives
We are really doing it to explore their lives and see if they are (harming) real kids.
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Americans are still worried about rising interest rates and high gasoline prices. That, along with the lingering impact from Hurricane Katrina and ongoing political fights in Washington, seems to be holding back consumer sentiment.