Maths explains why 'silly walks' are silly

In other "This is vitally important research" news
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SCIENTISTS have explained mathematically why the famous "silly walks" of Monty Python's John Cleese have never caught on in the long history of Homo sapiens.The giant, leg-twirling strides of silly walks may enable an individual to leap around swiftly but are simply too expensive in metabolic energy compared to conventional locomotion, according to a paper published on Wednesday by Britain's Royal Society.

Manoj Srinavasan and Andy Ruina, researchers in applied mechanics at New York's Cornell University, drew up a geometrical model of human walking and running. They found that, in essence, each leg is a "telescoping actuator'' that can change its length.
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What the? Silly walks are silly cause they make me laugh, not because "in essence, each leg is a telescoping actuator that can change it's length"

Speaking of telescoping actuators "that can change it's length", I actually do have one of those and it has been the cause of some mirth, so they might be right after all. But this is not the right forum.

But seriously this gratuitous use of Science to describe the bleeding obvious is getting beyond a joke. Next thing Manoj Srinavasan and Andy Ruina will be using Science to analyse my dance moves, and i am not entirely sure how i will react if threatened by gratuitous use of science on the dance floor. Don't say I didn't warn you.