Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

"What's your name?" " 9 Ball." "What's your REAL name?" "8 Ball."

Written by John Cleese about a broken toaster, then about a broken car, it was Graham Chapman's idea to make the item being returned a dead parrot. Specifically, a 'Norwegian Blue.'

 I always confuse Strauss' Radetsky March with Sousa's Liberty Bell March.