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If you’ve seen the famous Monty Python “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch from 1970 then the likelihood of having Mr. Teabag’s lanky and erratic gait on repeat in your head on mention is high. It’s a high kick step, followed by a skip, repeated, four steps in a quarter squat, a reverse cross of the right foot, and back again to the high kick. Throw in some variation of walking with knees in and ankles kicked out and you’ve got it.
“I’m sorry to have kept you waiting, but I’m afraid my walk has become rather sillier recently, and so it takes me rather longer to get to work,” Mr. Teabag says to a one Mr. Putey who is waiting in his office at the Ministry of Silly Walks.
This kind of inefficiency of travel is usually the opposite goal of the runner–which is to get to the destination faster.
A recent study published in The BMJ looked into, in a sense, how an inefficient method of movement, such as silly…
 study found that Monty Python's 'silly walk' could help adults reach the recommended amount of physical activity){kind=link}