I feel compelled to answer Fremen with my own quote:
Quote:
ARTHUR
(wazzed stiff)
Who are you?
TALL KNIGHT
We are the Knights Who Say "Ni"!
BEDEVERE
No! Not the Knights Who Say "Ni"!
TALL KNIGHT
The same!
ARTHUR
Who are they?
TALL KNIGHT
We are the keepers of the sacred words. NI ... Peng ... and Neee
... Wom!
BEDEVERE
Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale.
TALL KNIGHT
The Knights Who Say "Ni"! demand a sacrifice.
ARTHUR
(to the TALL KNIGHT)
Knights Who Say "Ni" ... we are but simple travellers. We seek the
Enchanter who lives beyond this wood and who ...
TALL KNIGHT
NI!
ARTHUR
(recoiling)
Oh!
TALL KNIGHT
NI! NI!
ARTHUR
(he cowers in fear)
Oh!
TALL KNIGHT
We shall say Ni! again to you if you do not appease us.
ARTHUR
All right! What do you want?
TALL KNIGHT
We want ... a shrubbery!
ARTHUR
A what?
TALL KNIGHT
Ni! Ni! Ni ... Peng ... Nee ... Wum!
The PAGES rear and snort and rattle their coconuts.
ARTHUR
All right! All right! ... No more, please. We will find you
a shrubbery ...
TALL KNIGHT
You must return here with a shrubbery or else ... you shall
not pass through this wood alive!
ARTHUR
Thanks you, Knights Who Say Ni! You are fair and just. We will
return with a shrubbery.
TALL KNIGHT
One that looks nice.
ARTHUR
Of course.
TALL KNIGHT
And not too expensive.
ARTHUR
Yes ...
TALL KNIGHT
Now - go!
ARTHUR and BEDEVERE turn and ride off.
OTHER KNIGHTS
Ni! Ni!
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