Talk:The Crimson Permanent Assurance/Archives/2013

Memories of a projectionist
Howdy from Texas,

Way back in 1983 I was working my way through college as a movie theater projectionist in Manhattan, Kansas (in other time... in another place...) and I have fond memories of this short film. Since it was integrated into "The Meaning of Life" as a short presentation before the main feature began, and since it was, after all, Monty Python, I had a bit of fun with our audiences that came in to see this film. "The Crimson Permanent Assurance" had its own ending theme and list of credits at its conclusion, so I'd close the curtain over the screen and bring up the houselights, as if, that's it, the show is over for tonight, in less than fifteen minutes. Thanks for coming; thanks for spending $4.25 (remember this was 1983). Some folks would get up to leave, scratching their heads, thinking "is that all there is? That didn't seem like the Meaning of Life to me." Whereupon I'd have to slide open the booth window and yell down to the auditorium to please sit back down; the main feature is about to start! And then open the curtain and dim the lights for "The Meaning of Life." I could never convince the other projectionists to do this; but at least I had Friday and Saturday nights for the big crowds. *sigh* Those days are gone forever,

Chris Hurd San Marcos, TX

—The preceding comment was added by 148.78.249.11 (talk • contribs) 10:49, 30 April 2005.

Palin
If no one minds, I've removed the bit that speculates that Michael Palin is the voice that apologises. &mdash; riana_dzasta • t • c • e  • ER • 00:43, 3 July 2006(UTC)

Maybe should be added to trivia
When the Crimson Permanent Insurance building first sees The Very Big Corporation building, there is a window cleaner's stand up really high. When the CPI comes near the building, the window cleaner's are a lot lower than they were first and get smashed by the grapples from the small CPI. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.87.8.127 (talk • contribs) 05:00, 16 August 2006

I saw the film. However, I found it was extremely out of hand.
Hi, users of Wikipedia!

Yeah..... I saw the freakin' film. In my opinion, it made NO sense whatsoever.

The reasons:

1. I'm certain that the elderly employee that got "Sacked" was probably unaware of what he was doing wrong. However, the firing scene was so quick, I didn't understand it, not one bit.

2. They turn a whole building into a freakin' pirate ship?!?! What the hell were the filmmakers thinking about when they did that? And, what the freak was the source of the "ship"'s power, anyways, freakin' carbon dioxide?

3. So, the elderly people fight all the other corporations, and end up killing lots of people with everyday objects. How nice! Wow! (Sarcasm) That makes a lot of freakin' sense! (Sarcasm ends here) Now, people are gonna look at this freakin' thing, and laugh? What the freak, man?

4. In the end, holy crap! They just fall to their freakin' demise, proving what, exactly?

All I see, they went on a stupid little killing spree, and then, they all die, by falling over the edge of the freakin' world. Wow. How nice. They just killed lots of people.... for nothing. I see no point with the film, whatsoever.

Maybe someone can explain all the freakin' things? Thank you. And, I'm not trying to say the movie was crap - all I'm saying is my opinion about the movie - it had no point to me, and I'd like to see what the freak is the plot of the whole, freakin' movie. Yeah.

I'm sorry if my feeback on the freakin' film ain't positive - but, one last time - it made no sense, none, to me. So, yeah. Thank you for any replies, yep! --205.211.16.254 (talk) 22:44, 18 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm terribly sorry, but this room is for discussions about the article. You want room 12A, which is "Arguments," just along the corridor. kevyn (talk) 00:48, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, there should be a freakin' link. Sorry if I disturbed the nature of a talk page, there. But, I am discussing about the movie, though. --205.211.16.254 (talk) 13:23, 19 November 2009 (UTC)


 * And now for something completely different .... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 20:56, 5 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Dear Sir, I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the responses to the original post. Serious questions were dismissed with silly jokes and japes. I, for one, would like to know the source of the ship's power. In fact, I would like to know the source of any supposed pirate ship's power. In my experience in the Royal Navy, when a ship runs out of petrol, it sits dead in the water, forcing the sailors to resort to rousing singalongs, card games, and the odd spot of cannibalism until a rescue ship arrives. And yet, we're expected to believe that centuries before the invention of the internal combustion engine, British, Dutch, and even Spanish sailors plied the oceans? I for one believe that an encyclopedia should give relevant answers rather than offering irrelevant instructions on how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away. Yours faithfully, Commodore 70.36.140.233 (talk) 11:16, 10 September 2012 (UTC) (Mrs.)

Referenced in a book
Charles Stross has written Neptune's Brood (2013) which prominently features a band of pirates/bankers/insurance salesmen working for a firm called The Crimson Permanent Assurance. The captain is named Rudi.50.166.4.111 (talk) 09:52, 7 July 2013 (UTC)