“We realised that the joke is essentially the same as the Monty Python Black Knight joke - the combatants refuse to give up,” Ellie Jackson, curator of illuminated manuscripts, told the BBC at ...

These include the hysterical Black Knight sequence in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in which the brave but dim-witted warrior keeps fighting after his limbs are hacked off one-by-one ("'Tis but ...

Specifically, the line is uttered by the Black Knight, a warrior of hilariously delusional power who is cut down by King Arthur in quick order, but refuses to concede the fight. Even when he is ...