"Can you justify that?" I said. I like challenging people who have opinions, but hate it when their response includes hypertext links.
"I sure can," he replied confidently. "The British comedy troupe Monty Python had a skit in which a character is comically unable to pronounce the letter C, so he uses the letter B instead. He can pronounce the letter K just fine, though. This exact same practice - pronouncing the letter C as B - later became a very real tradition among one of the largest gangs in the U.S. How can you explain that? Don't you dare say it's just a coincidence."
"Well, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation."
It all makes sense, you see, because...
Both the Bloods and Monty Python were tapping into the archetype of "The Hero Who Uses B Instead Of C" in the collective unconscious. Joseph Campbell totally said so.
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There's aliens watching over us, guiding our actions, but they're stupid.
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The founding members of the Bloods were tremendous fans of Monty Python, especially their Hollywood Bowl special, and wanted to honor them with their own traditions.
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The founding members of Monty Python were tremendous fans of US African-American gangs, especially the Bloods, and wished to honor them with a throw-away speech-impediment gag.
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Bobby Lavender is Eric Idle.
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Using B instead of C is intrinsically ridiculous in British culture, but deadly serious in American culture.
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