{"id":2062,"date":"2007-02-20T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/02\/20\/i-want-them-to-sing-the-philosophers-song-next\/"},"modified":"2007-02-20T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T15:13:00","slug":"i-want-them-to-sing-the-philosophers-song-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/02\/20\/i-want-them-to-sing-the-philosophers-song-next\/","title":{"rendered":"I want them to sing the philosophers song next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time that I&#8217;ve enjoyed a video of &#8220;Dead Parrot Sketch&#8221; performed by anyone but John Cleese and Michael Palin:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LvyrzQldOKE\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LvyrzQldOKE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/web\/nigerian-blue-makes-scammers-act-up\/2007\/02\/20\/1171733742452.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1\">story<\/a>: A pair of Nigerian 419 scammers were scammed into performing the sketch by a group who pride themselves on wasting the time and resources of such scammers. If you haven&#8217;t heard about this before, they&#8217;re known as Scambaiters and have perpetrated some <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.scambaits.com\/showthread.php?t=2772\">pretty amusing hoaxes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The solemnity with which Nigerian John Cleese recites his lines is more than I expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time that I&#8217;ve enjoyed a video of &#8220;Dead Parrot Sketch&#8221; performed by anyone but John Cleese and Michael Palin: The story: A pair of Nigerian 419 scammers were scammed into performing the sketch by a group who pride themselves on wasting the time and resources of such scammers. If you haven&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/02\/20\/i-want-them-to-sing-the-philosophers-song-next\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I want them to sing the philosophers song next&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[924,1049],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-monty-python","tag-scambaiters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}