Life With Edmund Blackadder
One of the great luxuries of life at home - actually watching a TV series. In this case, Blackadder the Third. (set in late 18th century London)
Filled with immortal lines such as
"I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel."
Rowan Atkinson. Hugh Laurie as the Prince Regent, George IV who is described thusly:
"I care not a jot that you are the son of a certified sauerkraut-snacking loon. It minds not me that you dress like a mad parrot and talk like a plate of beans negotiating its way out of a cow's digestive system. It is no skin off my rosy nose that there are bits of lemon peel floating down the Thames that would make a better Regent than you."
I may have a brain the size of a sultana, but I call that brilliant!

1 Comments:
Ah yes Blackadder. My favourite is from Blackadder Goes Forth - set in the trenches of WWI.
Captain Blackadder is discussing with his batman (Baldrick) the coming "Big Push". How, what and why, especially why, Baldrick wanted to know to which Blackadder responds. "It's all because General Haigh (Allied C in C) wants to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin."
A chilling comment on the futility of war, agree?
Cheers (or rather shivers)
Steve Sparrow
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