THE AMAZING MONTY PYCON COLLECTION

  (Previously known as "The Rather Unamazing Monty Pycon Collection")

					 BY

	GARRETT "THE BUG" GILCHRIST		LINUS "THE LLAMA" BOMAN

				    WITH HELP FROM

		MARK "GUMBY" WUNSCH	7TH LEVEL	AND OTHERS


  FOR WINDOWS AND WIN95

  VERSION 4.0

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  Right! It seems you've taken the time to download this little file, and
  I suppose we should take the time to tell you what it's all about. This
  is a little file we like to call "MTYPYCON.ZIP," and it's just chock-full
  of the very best Monty Python ICOs, CURs, and ANIs available anywhere on
  the 'Net. If there is a better or more complete set anywhere frankly we
  doubt it, but if there is we'd love to steal from it so I'll just note
  here that Garrett Gilchrist can be reached at AmbushBug4@aol.com and Linus
  the Llama can be reached at lb-llama@usa.net as of this writing. This is
  a really heart-rendingly good set, we swear it, and it's all based on the
  works of Monty Python, including such films as "Monty Python and the Holy
  Grail," "Monty Python's Life of Brian," and "Monty Python and the Meaning
  of Life," and of course the Flying Circus television show. We also make
  nods to the Python video games by 7th Level, and such post-Python works
  as Terry Gilliam's film "Brazil" and John Cleese's television series
  "Fawlty Towers." We plan to update this file regularly, so stay tuned to
  further updates, which should be readily available at:

  Bug's PythoNET:
  (http://members.aol.com/ambushbug4/mybrainhurts.html)

  Llama's Virtual Camelot:
  (http://www.davgram.com.au/linus/python)

  If you can't find the pages, or have any questions, comments, or horribly
  demeaning hamster-related insults, just drop us a line at, again,
  AmbushBug4@aol.com or lb-llama@usa.net. If neither of those work, well,
  yer on yer own.

  Hmmm ... still here? Wow, you're a patient little bastard. Maybe you looked
  at the icons first. Few can resist the temptation at this point. Well,
  since you're here ...

  WHAT ARE PYCONS?

  pycon = monty PYthon + windows iCON

  Monty Python's Flying Circus began in 1969 as a late-night television
  program on the BBC in England. It was written by and starred four
  struggling British comedians (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, and
  Michael Palin), one struggling Welsh comedian (Terry Jones), and one
  American animator (Terry Gilliam) who wasn't struggling but would have
  done well to try. After a shaky start it proved one of the most successful
  and influential comedy programs in history, and is still popular today
  among a small but loyal group of fans on the Internet who mostly keep
  hidden away typing README files in rat-infested basements. They made five
  motion pictures, several books, and a myriad of record albums and pretty
  much kept limping along until the death of Graham Chapman in 1989. This
  collection's history is a bit rockier.

  The original "Pythicon" collection was created by Garrett "Bug" Gilchrist
  after realizing how few good Python icons were out on the 'Net. It started
  small but soon grew to be rather impressive and proved a worthy
  cornerstone, one of several, for his struggling new Python webpage. That
  webpage grew into the mighty PythoNET, but the icon collection remained
  untouched for some time. Enter Linus "The Llama" Boman, creator of the
  long-established Virtual Camelot webpage. Bug and Llama had been decent
  friends and damned good enemies for some time and had even collaborated
  (read: nearly come to blows over) a Monty Python theme for Windows 95.
  Seeing the now-long-established Pythicon collection stagnate was too much
  for this young Aussie so he began to submit creations of his own, which
  Garrett took one look at and then deleted entirely. But Linus would not
  be squelched, and after submitting an estimated 6.5 billion little icon
  files to the Bug he finally had to admit defeat, and a new icon collection,
  dubbed the "Pycon" collection, began. That's pretty much it. Unless, of
  course, you count the theme work by Mark "Gumby" Wunsch (MAWGumby1@aol.com)
  and all that ripping off from AOL, the Net, and 7th Level, but then that's
  another story ...

  Still here? Oh piss off and install the icons already. Don't know how?
  Check the sodding windows manual. And no, the CURs and ANIs don't work
  in Windows 3.x.

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  Bug's PythoNET:
  (http://members.aol.com/ambushbug4/mybrainhurts.html)

  Llama's Virtual Camelot:
  (http://www.davgram.com.au/linus/python)