"Miserable fat Belgian bastards." --Are you quite certain here? I grant that it has been nearly thirty years since I saw the sketch, but the phrasing I cited is the one that lodged, or appeared to lodge, in memory. Of course, the Pythons occasionally varied their bits in recordings, live performances, etc--for our present purposes I think we must needs regard the original television series as canonical--but now I'm mildly curious to know which of us is correct here.
cordially,