Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references in python community? :)

[Tim Chase]

> I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python
> community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not
> slithery animals.
> 
> Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of
> these Monty Python jokes.

I protest...Elvis isn't dead... ;-)  Every good geekling has 
surely been brought up with a staple diet of MP (as well as 
Hitchhikers, Black Adder, etc)...

> Is it kosher to make snake jokes/references even though officially they
> don't have anything to do with the name of our favorite language?
> (*Everyone* gets snake jokes! :)

They may get snake jokes, but all they do is boo and *hiss*.

Sorry...that word play was made in cold-blood <accent 
flavor="bostonian">so I won't boa you with any more</accent>


-tkc