I guess it was a day or two since Maria had seen the blog and noticed my Call of Duty post. Today, I got a cute little g-chat from her that said, “my fiance is a geek”. She mentioned how she was reading the site and I guess since I went all geeky on the post, now I’m just a geek! hahaa! It’s true though, I am a geek. I like video games, I’m all over the internet, I know some computer stuff and I am a total sucker for electronics and cool gadgets. Now this is by no means a bad thing. I mean, I’m not a nerd! We all know that nerds are the worst, ugh! LOL, I’m kidding by the way… Anyway, now that Maria is going to marry a geek I thought that she should get some geeky gear to show off her geek-love pride! I found a number of sites and found some pretty entertaining shirts. Some need an explanation, some don’t… One of the best I found, doesn’t really scream geek at first until you get close, (or you know the origin) but even more so it’s more of a shirt that I would love her to wear by proxy. I’m a big Monty Python fan. My Dad let me watch Monty Python’s Flying Circus when I was a child and I found it pretty entertaining. Of course I watch the show now and I can appreciate it on so many more levels than I ever could back then. There has been a number of good times (more recently) where all we had to do was put on “Holy Grail”, kick back and enjoy. A great ongoing gag in the movie deals with Swallows. It begins with two French guards discussing how much weight a swallow could carry after they see that “King Arthur” isn’t riding a horse, but his “Patsy” is clacking together halves of coconuts. How does a tropical fruit show up in a temperate climate? Does the swallow not migrate? (feeling more geek already) “It’s not a matter of migration, it’s a simple question of air-speed velocity.” (I’m paraphrasing here, but you get the idea, if not, see the movie!) They then go on to explain that a swallow couldn’t possibly carry the coconut to the temperate climate… however, it’s possible if it’s an African swallow (not European) and perhaps if two of them held the coconut connected by a piece of twine! To say the least, it’s an insane conversation… Insanely funny! 
Later on in the movie, King Arthur has to face the “Bridge of Death” and must answer 3 questions. The keeper asks questions and if you didn’t know or got the question wrong, you were launched into the pit of death. The keeper ask Arthur 3 questions, “What is your name? What is your favorite color? What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?” Of course Arthur answers the first 2 questions with no problem, when encountered with the third, he says, “African or European?” The keeper doesn’t know so he gets launched into the pit of death! One of the other knights ask how he knows so much about swallows and Arthur replies, “Well, you have to know these things when you are King.”
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