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* The Abominable Snowman? On an ordinary study trip near the Reichenbach Falls, geologist Cholmondeley Mulliner meets up with Mr Sigerson, a Norwegian explorer who looks exactly like, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial but claims not to be]], Literature/SherlockHolmes. The two men strike up a friendship, and decide to travel together to the Himalayas. All goes well until Mulliner, making some investigations among the mountains, is astonished to glimpse a giant bipedal ape. The nearsighted geologist doesn't realise it's the tall, ungainly figure of Sigerson, clad for warmth in a thick hooded snowsuit made of fur, on his way back from a visit to the Dalai Lama! By the time Mulliner discovers his mistake, the rumour has already spread around the area, and gotten connected to the Yeti of pre-Buddhist lore. Matters only get worse when locals misinterpret the prints of Sigerson's large, roughly foot-shaped leather snowshoes as the "tracks" of the creature. Since Sigerson wants to preserve his privacy, the two men feel they have no choice but to let the legend of the Abominable Snowman [[{{Pun}} snowball out of control.]]
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* The Abominable Snowman? On an ordinary study trip near the Reichenbach Falls, geologist Cholmondeley Mulliner meets up with Mr Sigerson, a Norwegian explorer who looks exactly like, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial but claims not to be]], Literature/SherlockHolmes. The two men strike up a friendship, and decide to travel together to the Himalayas. All goes well until Mulliner, making some investigations among the mountains, is astonished to glimpse a giant bipedal ape. The nearsighted geologist doesn't realise it's the tall, ungainly figure of Sigerson, clad for warmth in a thick hooded snowsuit made of fur, on his way back from a visit to the Dalai Lama! By the time Mulliner discovers his mistake, the rumour has already spread around the area, and gotten connected to the Yeti of pre-Buddhist lore. Matters only get worse when locals misinterpret the prints of Sigerson's large, roughly foot-shaped leather snowshoes as the "tracks" of the creature. Since Sigerson wants to preserve his privacy, the two men feel they have no choice but to let the legend of the Abominable Snowman [[{{Pun}} snowball out of control.]]]] (As it happens, there ''is'' also a giant ape in the mountains, [[Recap/TintinTintinInTibet the Migou]], but that's [[RealAfterAll a complete coincidence]].)
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Mr Mulliner's stories always feature some distant relation of his, and usually involve the course of true love going haywire before all is sorted out happily. [[RuleOfFunny Pure logic]] demands that he must have other relatives whose lives, while equally colourful, don't make for such straightforward boy-meets-girl stories, and [[RuleOfCool the dictates of probability]] demand that, with so many relatives, quite a few of them [[HistoricalInJoke must have gotten entangled]] in rather famous historical incidents. [[InsaneTrollLogic It follows inevitably]] that one member or another of the Mulliner clan is in some way responsible for [[StockUnsolvedMysteries most of the unsolved mysteries in the historical timeline]].
* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually reaching Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs (including a rather interesting goblet) to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].
* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually reaching Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs (including a rather interesting goblet) to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].
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Mr Mulliner's stories always feature some distant relation of his, and usually involve the course of true love going haywire before all is sorted out happily. [[RuleOfFunny Pure logic]] demands that he must have other relatives whose lives, while equally colourful, don't make for such straightforward boy-meets-girl stories, and [[RuleOfCool the dictates of probability]] demand that, with so many relatives, quite a few of them [[HistoricalInJoke must have gotten entangled]] entangled in rather famous historical incidents. [[InsaneTrollLogic It follows inevitably]] that one member or another of the Mulliner clan is in some way responsible for [[StockUnsolvedMysteries most of the unsolved mysteries mysteries]] [[HistoricalInJoke in the historical timeline]].
* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually reaching Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs (including a rather interestinggoblet) grail) to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].
* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually reaching Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs (including a rather interesting
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* The Abominable Snowman? Quiet-living Victorian geologist Fothergill Mulliner's life is turned upside down when, on a rare night on the town, he falls in with some high-living young toffs (early members of the Drones Club, in fact), gets abominably drunk, and ends up stealing a policeman's helmet and appearing before a magistrate. Appalled the next morning at this blot on his otherwise unstained escutcheon, and horrified to consider what his censorious aunts will think, he resolves to flee the country. Just as his contemporary Literature/SherlockHolmes would do a few years later in his escape from the Reichenbach Falls, Mulliner keeps a low profile and wanders over continental Eurasia, where his interest in mountain wildlife pulls him inevitably to the Himalayas. His private geological expeditions among the mountains yield much unwanted publicity when passing mountaineers catch glimpses of his tall, ungainly frame, clad for warmth in a thick hooded snowsuit made of fur. To his immense embarrassment, he is misidentified as a giant bipedal ape--the Yeti of pre-Buddhist lore! The trouble only gets worse when the prints of his overly large, roughly foot-shaped, homemade leather snowshoes are interpreted as the "tracks" of the creature. Since he wants to preserve his privacy, he believes he has no choice but to let the legend of the Abominable Snowman [[{{Pun}} snowball out of control.]]
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* The Abominable Snowman? Quiet-living Victorian geologist Fothergill Mulliner's life is turned upside down when, on a rare night on the town, he falls in with some high-living young toffs (early members of the Drones Club, in fact), gets abominably drunk, and ends up stealing a policeman's helmet and appearing before a magistrate. Appalled the next morning at this blot on his otherwise unstained escutcheon, and horrified to consider what his censorious aunts will think, he resolves to flee the country. Just as his contemporary Literature/SherlockHolmes would do a few years later in his escape from On an ordinary study trip near the Reichenbach Falls, geologist Cholmondeley Mulliner keeps meets up with Mr Sigerson, a low profile Norwegian explorer who looks exactly like, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial but claims not to be]], Literature/SherlockHolmes. The two men strike up a friendship, and wanders over continental Eurasia, where his interest in mountain wildlife pulls him inevitably decide to travel together to the Himalayas. His private geological expeditions All goes well until Mulliner, making some investigations among the mountains yield much unwanted publicity when passing mountaineers catch glimpses of his mountains, is astonished to glimpse a giant bipedal ape. The nearsighted geologist doesn't realise it's the tall, ungainly frame, figure of Sigerson, clad for warmth in a thick hooded snowsuit made of fur. To fur, on his immense embarrassment, he is misidentified as way back from a giant bipedal ape--the visit to the Dalai Lama! By the time Mulliner discovers his mistake, the rumour has already spread around the area, and gotten connected to the Yeti of pre-Buddhist lore! The trouble lore. Matters only gets get worse when locals misinterpret the prints of his overly Sigerson's large, roughly foot-shaped, homemade foot-shaped leather snowshoes are interpreted as the "tracks" of the creature. Since he Sigerson wants to preserve his privacy, he believes he has the two men feel they have no choice but to let the legend of the Abominable Snowman [[{{Pun}} snowball out of control.]]
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* The Abominable Snowman? Quiet-living Victorian geologist Fothergill Mulliner's life is turned upside down when, on a rare night on the town, he falls in with some high-living young toffs (early members of the Drones Club, in fact), gets abominably drunk, and ends up stealing a policeman's helmet and appearing before a magistrate. Appalled the next morning at this blot on his otherwise unstained escutcheon, and horrified to consider what his censorious aunts will think, he resolves to flee the country. Just as his contemporary Literature/SherlockHolmes would do a few years later in his escape from the Reichenbach Falls, Mulliner keeps a low profile and wanders over continental Eurasia, where his interest in mountain wildlife pulls him inevitably to the Himalayas. His private geological expeditions among the mountains yield much unwanted publicity when passing mountaineers catch glimpses of his tall, ungainly frame, clad for warmth in a thick hooded snowsuit made of fur. To his immense embarrassment, he is misidentified as a giant bipedal ape--the Yeti of pre-Buddhist lore! The trouble only gets worse when the prints of his overly large, roughly foot-shaped, homemade leather snowshoes are interpreted as the "tracks" of the creature.
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* The Abominable Snowman? Quiet-living Victorian geologist Fothergill Mulliner's life is turned upside down when, on a rare night on the town, he falls in with some high-living young toffs (early members of the Drones Club, in fact), gets abominably drunk, and ends up stealing a policeman's helmet and appearing before a magistrate. Appalled the next morning at this blot on his otherwise unstained escutcheon, and horrified to consider what his censorious aunts will think, he resolves to flee the country. Just as his contemporary Literature/SherlockHolmes would do a few years later in his escape from the Reichenbach Falls, Mulliner keeps a low profile and wanders over continental Eurasia, where his interest in mountain wildlife pulls him inevitably to the Himalayas. His private geological expeditions among the mountains yield much unwanted publicity when passing mountaineers catch glimpses of his tall, ungainly frame, clad for warmth in a thick hooded snowsuit made of fur. To his immense embarrassment, he is misidentified as a giant bipedal ape--the Yeti of pre-Buddhist lore! The trouble only gets worse when the prints of his overly large, roughly foot-shaped, homemade leather snowshoes are interpreted as the "tracks" of the creature. Since he wants to preserve his privacy, he believes he has no choice but to let the legend of the Abominable Snowman [[{{Pun}} snowball out of control.]]
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Mr Mulliner's stories always feature some distant relation of his, and usually involve the course of true love going haywire before all is sorted out happily. [[RuleOfFunny Pure logic]] demands that he must have other relatives whose lives, while equally colourful, don't make for such straightforward boy-meets-girl stories, and [[RuleOfCool the dictates of probability]] demand that, with so many relatives, quite a few of them must have gotten entangled in rather famous historical incidents. [[InsaneTrollLogic It follows inevitably]] that one member or another of the Mulliner clan is in some way responsible for [[HistoricalInJoke most of the unsolved mysteries in the historical timeline]].
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Mr Mulliner's stories always feature some distant relation of his, and usually involve the course of true love going haywire before all is sorted out happily. [[RuleOfFunny Pure logic]] demands that he must have other relatives whose lives, while equally colourful, don't make for such straightforward boy-meets-girl stories, and [[RuleOfCool the dictates of probability]] demand that, with so many relatives, quite a few of them [[HistoricalInJoke must have gotten entangled entangled]] in rather famous historical incidents. [[InsaneTrollLogic It follows inevitably]] that one member or another of the Mulliner clan is in some way responsible for [[HistoricalInJoke [[StockUnsolvedMysteries most of the unsolved mysteries in the historical timeline]].
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* The Shot Heard Round the World? Lieutenant Fitzwilliam Mulliner is woefully ill-suited to army life--in fact, he's an utter pacifist--but he joins the British Army in an attempt to impress his beloved, and is quickly called to serve in the American Colonies. He hopes to get through his first battle, on 19 April 1775, by filling his gun with blanks, but when he tries to test the ruse in his tent early that morning, both sides assume the battle has begun and set to with a vengeance. The mortified Lieutenant Mulliner, not wanting to be blamed for the ensuing Revolutionary War, sneaks back to England as soon as possible, and posterity is left with a mess of contradictory accounts and speculation as to which side fired that first historic shot.
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* The Shot Heard Round the World? Lieutenant Fitzwilliam Mulliner is woefully ill-suited to army life--in fact, he's an utter pacifist--but he joins the British Army in an attempt to impress his beloved, and is quickly called to serve in the American Colonies. He hopes to get through his first battle, on 19 April 1775, by filling his gun with blanks, but when he tries to test the ruse in his tent early that morning, morning with a trial shot, both sides assume the battle has begun and set to with a vengeance. The mortified Lieutenant Mulliner, not wanting to be blamed for the ensuing Revolutionary War, sneaks back to England as soon as possible, and posterity is left with a mess of contradictory accounts and speculation as to which side fired that first historic shot.
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* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually reaching Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs (including a very interesting goblet) to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].
* The Shot Heard Round the World? Lieutenant Fitzwilliam Mulliner is woefully ill-suited to army life--in fact, he's an utter pacifist--but he joins the British Army in an attempt to impress his beloved, and is quickly called to serve in the American Colonies. He hopes to get through his first battle, on 19 April 1775, by filling his gun with blanks, but when he tries to test the ruse in his tent early that morning, both sides assume the battle has begun and set to with a vengeance. The mortified Lieutenant Mulliner, not wanting to be blamed for the ensuing Revolutionary War, flees the country as soon as possible, and posterity is left with a mess of contradictory accounts and speculation as to which side fired that first historic shot.
* The Shot Heard Round the World? Lieutenant Fitzwilliam Mulliner is woefully ill-suited to army life--in fact, he's an utter pacifist--but he joins the British Army in an attempt to impress his beloved, and is quickly called to serve in the American Colonies. He hopes to get through his first battle, on 19 April 1775, by filling his gun with blanks, but when he tries to test the ruse in his tent early that morning, both sides assume the battle has begun and set to with a vengeance. The mortified Lieutenant Mulliner, not wanting to be blamed for the ensuing Revolutionary War, flees the country as soon as possible, and posterity is left with a mess of contradictory accounts and speculation as to which side fired that first historic shot.
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* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually reaching Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs (including a very rather interesting goblet) to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].
* The Shot Heard Round the World? Lieutenant Fitzwilliam Mulliner is woefully ill-suited to army life--in fact, he's an utter pacifist--but he joins the British Army in an attempt to impress his beloved, and is quickly called to serve in the American Colonies. He hopes to get through his first battle, on 19 April 1775, by filling his gun with blanks, but when he tries to test the ruse in his tent early that morning, both sides assume the battle has begun and set to with a vengeance. The mortified Lieutenant Mulliner, not wanting to be blamed for the ensuing Revolutionary War,flees the country sneaks back to England as soon as possible, and posterity is left with a mess of contradictory accounts and speculation as to which side fired that first historic shot.shot.
* The Abominable Snowman? Quiet-living Victorian geologist Fothergill Mulliner's life is turned upside down when, on a rare night on the town, he falls in with some high-living young toffs (early members of the Drones Club, in fact), gets abominably drunk, and ends up stealing a policeman's helmet and appearing before a magistrate. Appalled the next morning at this blot on his otherwise unstained escutcheon, and horrified to consider what his censorious aunts will think, he resolves to flee the country. Just as his contemporary Literature/SherlockHolmes would do a few years later in his escape from the Reichenbach Falls, Mulliner keeps a low profile and wanders over continental Eurasia, where his interest in mountain wildlife pulls him inevitably to the Himalayas. His private geological expeditions among the mountains yield much unwanted publicity when passing mountaineers catch glimpses of his tall, ungainly frame, clad for warmth in a thick hooded snowsuit made of fur. To his immense embarrassment, he is misidentified as a giant bipedal ape--the Yeti of pre-Buddhist lore! The trouble only gets worse when the prints of his overly large, roughly foot-shaped, homemade leather snowshoes are interpreted as the "tracks" of the creature.
* The Shot Heard Round the World? Lieutenant Fitzwilliam Mulliner is woefully ill-suited to army life--in fact, he's an utter pacifist--but he joins the British Army in an attempt to impress his beloved, and is quickly called to serve in the American Colonies. He hopes to get through his first battle, on 19 April 1775, by filling his gun with blanks, but when he tries to test the ruse in his tent early that morning, both sides assume the battle has begun and set to with a vengeance. The mortified Lieutenant Mulliner, not wanting to be blamed for the ensuing Revolutionary War,
* The Abominable Snowman? Quiet-living Victorian geologist Fothergill Mulliner's life is turned upside down when, on a rare night on the town, he falls in with some high-living young toffs (early members of the Drones Club, in fact), gets abominably drunk, and ends up stealing a policeman's helmet and appearing before a magistrate. Appalled the next morning at this blot on his otherwise unstained escutcheon, and horrified to consider what his censorious aunts will think, he resolves to flee the country. Just as his contemporary Literature/SherlockHolmes would do a few years later in his escape from the Reichenbach Falls, Mulliner keeps a low profile and wanders over continental Eurasia, where his interest in mountain wildlife pulls him inevitably to the Himalayas. His private geological expeditions among the mountains yield much unwanted publicity when passing mountaineers catch glimpses of his tall, ungainly frame, clad for warmth in a thick hooded snowsuit made of fur. To his immense embarrassment, he is misidentified as a giant bipedal ape--the Yeti of pre-Buddhist lore! The trouble only gets worse when the prints of his overly large, roughly foot-shaped, homemade leather snowshoes are interpreted as the "tracks" of the creature.
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* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually reaching Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs (including a very interesting grail that had once belonged to a mentor of his) to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].
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* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually reaching Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs (including a very interesting grail that had once belonged to a mentor of his) goblet) to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].Alexandretta]].
* The Shot Heard Round the World? Lieutenant Fitzwilliam Mulliner is woefully ill-suited to army life--in fact, he's an utter pacifist--but he joins the British Army in an attempt to impress his beloved, and is quickly called to serve in the American Colonies. He hopes to get through his first battle, on 19 April 1775, by filling his gun with blanks, but when he tries to test the ruse in his tent early that morning, both sides assume the battle has begun and set to with a vengeance. The mortified Lieutenant Mulliner, not wanting to be blamed for the ensuing Revolutionary War, flees the country as soon as possible, and posterity is left with a mess of contradictory accounts and speculation as to which side fired that first historic shot.
* The Shot Heard Round the World? Lieutenant Fitzwilliam Mulliner is woefully ill-suited to army life--in fact, he's an utter pacifist--but he joins the British Army in an attempt to impress his beloved, and is quickly called to serve in the American Colonies. He hopes to get through his first battle, on 19 April 1775, by filling his gun with blanks, but when he tries to test the ruse in his tent early that morning, both sides assume the battle has begun and set to with a vengeance. The mortified Lieutenant Mulliner, not wanting to be blamed for the ensuing Revolutionary War, flees the country as soon as possible, and posterity is left with a mess of contradictory accounts and speculation as to which side fired that first historic shot.
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* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually ending up in Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].
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* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually ending up in reaching Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs (including a very interesting grail that had once belonged to a mentor of his) to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].
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[[WMG: Mr Mulliner has other relatives he doesn't talk about.]]
Mr Mulliner's stories always feature some distant relation of his, and usually involve the course of true love going haywire before all is sorted out happily. [[RuleOfFunny Pure logic]] demands that he must have other relatives whose lives, while equally colourful, don't make for such straightforward boy-meets-girl stories, and [[RuleOfCool the dictates of probability]] demand that, with so many relatives, quite a few of them must have gotten entangled in rather famous historical incidents. [[InsaneTrollLogic It follows inevitably]] that one member or another of the Mulliner clan is in some way responsible for [[HistoricalInJoke most of the unsolved mysteries in the historical timeline]].
* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually ending up in Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].
Mr Mulliner's stories always feature some distant relation of his, and usually involve the course of true love going haywire before all is sorted out happily. [[RuleOfFunny Pure logic]] demands that he must have other relatives whose lives, while equally colourful, don't make for such straightforward boy-meets-girl stories, and [[RuleOfCool the dictates of probability]] demand that, with so many relatives, quite a few of them must have gotten entangled in rather famous historical incidents. [[InsaneTrollLogic It follows inevitably]] that one member or another of the Mulliner clan is in some way responsible for [[HistoricalInJoke most of the unsolved mysteries in the historical timeline]].
* The lost Ark of the Covenant? Gaius Flavius Mollinarius, ostensibly a Roman soldier in occupied Jerusalem, is in fact a secret convert to Judaism and a double agent for the [[Film/LifeOfBrian Judean People's Front]]. The group's attempt to get the Ark safely stowed away in Jerusalem's famous Well of Souls goes wildly haywire when, misunderstanding their instructions, Mollinarius has it shipped instead to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk an obscure chamber of the same name, far off in Tanis, Egypt]]. Unclear where the Ark has ended up, Mollinarius and his best friend, Joseph of Arimathea, set off on a wild goose chase in search of it, eventually ending up in Roman Britain. Mollinarius, liking the climate, decides to stay and start a family. Joseph, after living some years in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Castle of Aarrgh]], opts to move back to the Mediterranean and donate his souvenirs to a [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade temple near Alexandretta]].
