The Monty Python team is to regroup and re-enact the hilarious dead parrot routine in the Nightcliff Police Station. With the letter C missing from the police station sign for years so that it reads POLIE , it is the perfect location for a dead parrot skit. In fact, locals refer to the police station as the Gone Goose and the Plucked Duck because of the missing letter .
It is certainly a polie gone rookery at night when its doors are closed and feathers fly in the Nightcliff mayhem precinct. Funnyman John Cleese today told Little Darwin the POLIE sign was drawn to his attention by Marty Feldman who aspired to a position as a consultant to the NT Government. The bug-eyed Feldman had referred to the Nightcliff Police Station as Lord Snowdon’s birdcage.
It is certainly a polie gone rookery at night when its doors are closed and feathers fly in the Nightcliff mayhem precinct. Funnyman John Cleese today told Little Darwin the POLIE sign was drawn to his attention by Marty Feldman who aspired to a position as a consultant to the NT Government. The bug-eyed Feldman had referred to the Nightcliff Police Station as Lord Snowdon’s birdcage.
Cleese revealed the Monty Python team is also looking at using the Nightcliff Police Station for other comical routines . Dressed like Chicken Man , Cleese will rush out of the POLIE STATION and beat miscreants with ostrich feathers. This, of course, will be a variation of the famous flogging of his Mini Minor car with a branch for breaking down . Local magistrates and judges will probably adopt this form of punishment to show they are responding to community calls, despite a severe build up of ear wax and hopsack fibres , and getting tough.
