Hmmm…in Genoa, 'tis now the fashion to pin a live frog to the shoulder braid, stand in a bucket and go ‘bibble’ at passersby…
Now must be off to say bye bye to Ponsonby. Would you care to stroll with me a while just if you’ve got time, if you’re not too busy.
Captain Cook was excellent too:
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“Impossible sir. I know from long experience that my men have all the artistic talent of a cluster of colourblind hedgehogs… in a bag”
“Hm, well that’s a bit of a blow. We needed a man to leave the trenches immediately.”
“Leave the trenches?”
“Yes.”
“Yes, I wonder if you’ve enjoyed, as I have, sir, that marvellous painting in the National Portrait Gallery, Bag Interior, by the Colourblind Hedgehog Workshop of Siena…?”
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“And might I suggest sir that having left the trenches, it might be a good idea to post our man to Paris [points on Melchett’s map], in order to soak up a little of the artistic atmosphere. Perhaps even Tahiti [waves airily at another part of the map], so as to produce a real masterpiece.”
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“… Or alternatively, the greatest work of fiction since vows of fidelity were included in the French marriage service.”
I used this one for a while:
“It is said that the civilized man seeks out good and intelligent company, so that by learned discourse, he may rise above the savage, and be closer to God. Personally, however, I like to start the day with a total dickhead to remind me that I’m best.”
And this one:
“To you, Baldrick, the Renaissance is just something that happened to other people, wasn’t it?”
You know, over these last few posts, I’ve come to think of you as a sort of son. Not a favourite son, of course – lord, no! – more a sort of illegitimate backstairs sort of sprog, you know: a sort of spotty squit that nobody really likes. But, nonetheless, still fruit of my overactive loins.
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By the way, for you trivia buffs:
The words quoted whenever the Scottish play is mentioned are:
**“Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends.” **
from the contrafibbulistic site: Blackadder Hall
Sorry about the smudge,
Hope you aren’t too miffed.
Byeeee
A son?! :eek:
How little he knows and how much I would have him know!
A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it is a miracle. A boy without a winkle! And then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl.
Edmund: No, just a wild stab in the dark, which is incidentally what you’ll be getting if you don’t start being a bit more helpful.
and of course…
Edmund: Here is a purse of money… which I’m not going to give you.
Mouthie’s open Nursie should be shut.
All right, right, right, right. My turn again. What begins with Come here' and ends with Ow’?
and of course
these are my two favourite Captain Cook quotes.
Don’t be disgusting Darling, I wouldn’t lick a German if he was glazed in honey.
:eek:
I may translate a lot of German for a music website, but I assure you, I’m as British as Queen Victoria.
Blackadder: You agreed to marry General Melchett?!
Percy: Well, he’s my commanding officer, Sir. I didn’t feel I could refuse.
Blackadder: Well, he’s going to give you the bloody Victoria Cross when he lifts up your skirt on the wedding night and sees the last turkey in the shop!
I always enjoyed Nursie’s line in the second series:
“No! Ointment! That’s what you need when your head’s been cut off! That’s what I
gave your cousin Mary when they done her. ‘There, there’ I said, ‘you’ll soon grow a new one.’”
And then the very brief appearance of the infant Pitt the Younger in the third series is good:)
McInnery’s character in Goes Forth was Capt. Kevin Darling. I wish they’d named him Percy, either as a first name or a last name, but they seem to have retired Percy Percy after II (McInnery’s not in BA the Third, Christmas Carol or Cavalier Years, and he’s Darling in Goes Forth & Back & Forth)
Well, the line quoted was spoken by George, not Percy/Darling.
Ahh, if I can just squeeze through this admiring rabble …
Yes, you’re right, Captain Blackadder’s lieutenant is George, not Percy. Percy was the name of his doppleganger in Season 1 and Season 2. And then in Season 3 the roles were reversed – Blackadder became the servant and the gormless idiot (George the Prince Regent) became the master. Clever twist, that. But Baldrick always remains Baldrick, the “monkey who’s been strategically shaved.”
You know what I’d really like to see? A season 2-1/2! Blackadder during the rule of Cromwell! Imagine what they could do with that! Would he be a cavalier or a roundhead? You know, the upheavals of the Civil War might explain how the Blackadder family lost its noble rank.
Waddaya mean “or”?
Any true Blackadder would be playing both sides against the middle, probably through the use of funny wigs.
Hmm. That puts a whole different spin on the exchange. Frankly, I think it was funnier when I imagined Darling in it. (I have much better recollection of the characters than specific scenes.)
Ah, well.