| 词条 | Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses |
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"Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses" is a sketch from Episode 31 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition". This sketch features Graham Chapman as a television interviewer and John Cleese in drag as a palaeontologist, Anne Elk, appearing in a television talk show titled Thrust. The plot of the sketch is that the interviewee, Anne Elk, can hardly describe the basis of her supposed new paleontological theory on dinosaurs, specifically brontosauruses. After several false starts during which she repeatedly and noisily attempts to clear her throat, Miss Elk spends most of the interview circuitously leading up to the "theory by A. Elk. Brackets Miss, brackets." It turns out that in the end Miss Elk's new theory on brontosauruses is rather shallow: "All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end." Her true concern is that she receive full credit for devising this new theory: "That is my theory, it is mine and belongs to me, and I own it and what it is, too."[1] This sketch was also performed on the album Monty Python's Previous Record, under the title 'Miss Anne Elk'. On this version, before beginning her second theory, the interviewer shoots her. At Cleese's request, the sketch was performed as part of the team's 2014 live reunion show, Monty Python Live (Mostly), with Eric Idle playing the interviewer. This version concluded with an extended coughing fit, before linking to the "Dancing Teeth" animation. Anne Elk's roundabout speech pattern was based on Graham Chapman's partner David Sherlock, who evidently spoke in such a manner, amusing the other Pythons.{{fact|date=January 2013}} The sketch inspired the concept of "Elk Theories" to describe scientific observations that are not theories but merely minimal accounts.[2] The character A. Elk and her "Theory of Brontosauruses" is used in the American Psychological Association Style Guide to illustrate how to reference a periodical article in a learned journal.[3] References1. ^{{cite book | title = The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words, Volume Two | first1 = Graham | last1 = Chapman | first2 = John | last2 = Cleese | first3 = Terry | last3 = Gilliam | first4 = Eric | last4 = Idle | first5 = Terry | last5 = Jones | first6 = Michael | last6 = Palin | editor-first = Roger | editor-last = Wilmut | year = 1989 | publisher = Pantheon Books | location = New York, New York | isbn = 0-679-72648-9 | pages = 118-120}} {{Monty Python}}2. ^{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0DZEyLWqrZcC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=%22anne+elk%22&source=web&ots=PKU5ZhlBTe&sig=LdDonhzP2DxUpp5eGimlsg5oM34 | title = Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology | first = Peter J. | last = Riggs | publisher = Springer Netherlands | date = 31 October 1996 | isbn = 9780792342250}} 3. ^{{cite web | url = http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2010/01/the-generic-reference-where.html | title = The Generic Reference | first = Jeff | last = Hume-Pratuch | date = 28 January 2010 | work = APA Style Blog | publisher = American Psychological Association}} 1 : Monty Python sketches |
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