Knights Who Say Ni questions them, and Arthur admits that it is for the Knights who say "Ni!", whereupon she refuses to cooperate. Arthur then threatens to say "Ni!" to the old woman unless she helps them, and when she still refuses, begins shouting "Ni!". Bedivere has trouble saying the sacred word, which he pronounces "Nu!" until Arthur demonstrates the correct technique. As the crone shrinks back from their combined assault, they are interrupted by Roger the Shrubber, who laments the lack of law and order that allows ruffians to say "Ni!" to an old woman. Arthur obtains a shrubbery from Roger, and brings
Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years and the Holy Grail", "Monty Python's Life of Brian", "Jabberwocky", "Ripping Yarns"), his growing family (his son Thomas was six months old when the diary begins, and then William and Rachel joined the family), his father’s illness and death, his hatred for U.S. president Richard Nixon, and his self search for something else, as if what he had going on was not enough, at least intellectually. He perceives a novelist inside, but in the diary we never get to actually know what happens to his first novel. Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years, dedicated by Michael