What (who) is silly walk - definition

MONTY PYTHON SKETCH

Monty Pythons Flying Circus/The Ministry of Silly Walks; Ministry of silly walks; Ministry of Silly Walks; Silly walks in Monty Python; Minister of Silly Walks; Silly Walks; Silly Walk; Ministry of Funny Walks; Anglo-French Silly Walk; Ministry of silly Walks

silly walk

[Monty Python's Flying Circus] 1. A ridiculous procedure required to accomplish a task. Like grovel, but more random and humorous. "I had to silly-walk through half the /usr directories to find the maps file." 2. Synonym fandango on core. [Jargon File]

The Ministry of Silly Walks

"The Ministry of Silly Walks" is a sketch from the Monty Python comedy troupe's television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, series 2, episode 1, which is entitled "Face the Press". The episode first aired on 15 September 1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Silly_Walks

Silly window syndrome

PROBLEM IN INTERNET PACKET COMMUNICATION

Silly window

Silly window syndrome (SWS) is a problem in computer networking caused by poorly implemented TCP flow control. A serious problem can arise in the sliding window operation when the sending application program creates data slowly, the receiving application program consumes data slowly, or both.

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The Ministry of Silly Walks

"The Ministry of Silly Walks" is a sketch from the Monty Python comedy troupe's television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, series 2, episode 1, which is entitled "Face the Press". The episode first aired on 15 September 1970. A shortened version of the sketch was performed for Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

A satire on bureaucratic inefficiency, the sketch involves John Cleese as a bowler-hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing silly walks through grants. Cleese, throughout the sketch, walks in a variety of silly ways. It is these various silly walks, more than the dialogue, that have earned the sketch its popularity. Cleese has cited the physical comedy of Max Wall, probably in character as Professor Wallofski, as important to its conception.

Ben Beaumont-Thomas in The Guardian writes, "Cleese is utterly deadpan as he takes the stereotypical bowler-hatted political drone and ruthlessly skewers him. All the self-importance, bureaucratic inefficiency and laughable circuitousness of Whitehall is summed up in one balletic extension of his slender leg."

According to research, published in British Medical Journal a 'silly walk' would take about 2.5 times as much energy as normal walking.

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Examples of use of silly walk

1. By Andrew Pierce THE undisputed master of the silly walk has proved equally adept at putting the boot in.

2. Now Monty Python‘s Flying Circus has done a silly walk to first place in a poll of the most influential comedy series in British broadcasting history.

3. Anyway, panic over in about ten seconds as it turns out to be a cut lip sustained while doing a silly walk up the stairs with a sports bottle of water clasped between his teeth.