Check out my new sig line....appropriate Blackadder quote.

[Pert_UK]

I'm very happy with it, as it seems perfectly suited to Shrub's approach to government.

P.

[supernova]

1. How a propos Pert

:thumbsup:

I LOVE BLACK ADDER!

[GOPisEvil]

2. My favorite Black Adder quote...

The path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the Devil's own satanic HERD! Edmund Blackadder from Blackadder II

[Pert_UK]

3. Well in that case, you are a fornicating baboon......

:evilgrin:

P.

[Pert_UK]

4. RIGHT...LET'S TURN THIS INTO A BLACKADDER QUOTE FEST!!!

Should keep us busy for a while....

P.

[GOPisEvil]

6. So let me get this straight.

You're saying that something which you have never seen is slightly less blue than something else which you have never seen?

[Pert_UK]

12. My God! I thought I knew them all......where's that one from?

As the tree said to the lumberjack - I'm stumped!

Gutted........I've lost all sense of purpose.

P.

[GOPisEvil]

14. The first Blackadder; 1983.

http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0084988

[Pert_UK]

16. That explains it - I never really got into the first series!

But thanks for the info.

The only one I really remember is when he was marrying the enfanta, and had to have the translator in the room while they were in bed.

ROFLMAO!!!

P.

[FlashHarry]

7. Here's a good'un

Prince: ...some fellow said I had the wit and sophisitcation of a donkey!
Edmund: What an absurd suggestion Sir!
Prince: You're right, it is absurd!
Edmund: Unless, of course, it was a particularly stupid Donkey.

[supernova]

8. Got one!

I have erred and strayed like a lost ox... I have coveted my father's adultery... I have not always honoured my neighbours ass.



BBC Blackadder quote generator:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/quotes/index.shtml

[Bossy Monkey]

9. Then you'll have to visit Blackadder Hall!

http://www.blackadderhall.com/
Everything Blackadder!

[MisterP]

17. Baa!

[Pert_UK]

25. Not? YES! Flossy? YES! But didn't we? YES Lord Melchett!

PML!

Genius stuff.

Mr P. (the other one).

[MisterP]

26. Do you have a woman in there?

[Pert_UK]

Errrrrr.........I'm not with you sir.

P

[MisterP]

34. You hesitated, Edmund -- it's not a sheep, is it?

(sorry, my original quote was merely a paraphrase)
from "The Foretelling"--1st season

[Pert_UK]

35. Got ya...thanks!

P.

[Maeve]

37. That plan is so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel

Not only is the whole set available on DVD, ou can also get the book of the scripts--Blackadder:The Whole Damn Dynasty 1485-1917

Blackadder, Blackadder
I thought that he had died!
Blackadder, Blackadder
The writers must have lied!

[WildClarySage]

5. What was the name of that play again? Oh yes,

MacBeth!

[GOPisEvil]

10. As the good Lord said,

"Love thy neighbour as thyself, unless he's Turkish, in which case, kill the bastard!"

[FlashHarry]

11. Blackadder: Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?

Baldrick: Yes, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made out of iron.

[FlashHarry]

13. Jeez. This is addictive.

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening ear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."

[Pert_UK]

15. I'll be back before you can say antidisestablishmentarianism...

Well, I wouldn't be so sure about that...

P.

[Pert_UK]

18. You have chairs in your house?!? In our house Nathaniel sits on a spike.

I sit on Nathaniel - two spikes would be an extravagance.

P.

[maxanne]

19. Fortune vomits

on my eiderdown again.

[GumboYaYa]

20. Baldrick you wouldn't recognize a subtle plan

if it painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsichord singing "subtle plans are here again."

This is fun.

[Elidor]

21. Evidently I need to turn the tv back on.

I've never heard of Blackadder. And it's been around how long? It's hilarious.

[Zero Gravitas]

22. Black Adder = Rowan Atkinson (aka Mr. Bean)

playing a scheming Aristocrat named Black Adder. There were several series, each set in a different period of history. Hilarious stuff.

[Plaid Adder]

32. It was late 1980s if I recall. You can get 'em all on video

Probably DVD too at this point. I recommend it highly. It's hilarious, and after the first season (which is very different from the other three; it has its fans, but I wouldn't recommend it for starters) much of the comedy derives from the fact that the protagonist is constantly being menaced by the insanity and stupidity of the lunatic morons who run the world (the stark raving mad Queen Elizabeth I, the thick-as-a-whale-omelette Prince George, and the utterly bonkers General Melchett), a situation with which we are all painfully familiar.

The writing is very good, and they know just enough about the history to make it funny even if you're a pedant. I love the one about 18th century theater.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Pert_UK]

23. Did you realise that Dr Johnson (Blackadder 3) was played by Hagrid?

Robbie Coltrane, of "Cracker" (UK Criminologist drama) and "Hagrid" (Harry Potter) fame - one of our finest Scottish comedians and not a bad comedic actor either!

He also played the main ghost in Blackadder's Christmas Carol, which was well worth watching.

P.

[Pert_UK]

24. And Peeves (from Harry Potter) was played by Lord Flashheart (Rik Mayall)

But Peeves was edited out of the films unfortunately.

P.

[Plaid Adder]

27. Waah! You people had a Blackadder thread and didn't invite me!

I ought to get to the lounge more often.

The fact that two seasons of Blackadder feature an idiot upperclass twit named George means that the Bush-hating BA fan can have hours of amusement choosing which one best fits the times. The one in the initial post is a beaut, although I am also partial to, "George, who's using the family brain cell at the moment?"

I found another good sig quote in an episode of Jeeves & Wooster:

"A man can either be a successful dictator, or design ladies' underwear. One or the other; not both."

--Bertie Wooster, "A Plan For Gussie"

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Pert_UK]

30. Sorry!!!

"Something's going on, and I think I can make an educated guess what it is. Something which you, George, would find hard to do"

P.

[GOPisEvil]

36. In true copycat spirit, I added a Lt. George quote to my sig line!

In honor of the stellar military career of Lt. George W. Bush, of course. :D

[Pert_UK]

38. Nice choice, GOPisEvil!

:-)

P.

[GOPisEvil]

39. Thanks!

Yours is perfect for the politcal W. :-)

[Plaid Adder]

40. Other sig candidates:

"I care not a jot that you are the son of a certified sausage-sucking loon! It minds not me that you dress like a mad parrot and that you talk like a plate of beans negotiating their 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 better regents than you!"

--Sir Talbot Buxomly to Prince George, "Dish and Dishonesty"

"Mr. Baldrick may look like a chimpanzee who's been put in a suit and strategically shaved, but he is a brilliant politician. The number of votes I cast simply reflects the strength of my support for his policies."

--E. Blackadder, "Dish and Dishonesty"

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[GOPisEvil]

41. The second one is CLASSIC!!!!

LMAO!!!! :thumbsup:

[Plaid Adder]

42. Yes, it's almost prophetic...

Who would have thought there would ever be a real life President Baldrick.

Sigh,

The Plaid Adder

[WilliamPitt]

28. I'm steaking that for my next article

:)

[Pert_UK]

29. Cool....let me know if you want any extra details e.g. source.

And by the way...I'm fairly sure that Melchett's name includes "Cecil", but it wasn't listed on the site where I checked the quote!

Although on reflection, I'm not actually sure what you mean by "steaking"........mmmmmmmm.......steak!

Chris.

[Plaid Adder]

31. Yes, they mention "Cecil" at the trial...

Another great George moment from the courtmartial episode:

"I'm not sure your particular brand of mindless optimism is going to do the trick."

"Well, that's a shame, sir, because I had been planning on playing the 'mindless optimism' card pretty strongly."

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Pert_UK]

33. That's what I thought....

Nonsense - he's as sane as I am! Meeerrrrrrrrrr!

:-)

P.

[supernova]

43. Though I read yesterday about a B.A. Series 5?

But I can't find it now? It was on one of the two sites in this thread.

Pretty sure I'm not losing my mind! :crazy:

[Lorien]

44. I've worked with people

like "his men"!

Blackadder: I know from long experience all my men have the artistic talent of a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs in a bag.

[Pert_UK]

45. She's got a tongue like an electric eel...

and she likes the taste of a MAN's tonsils!

Cold is God's way of telling us to burn more Catholics!

P.

[Pert_UK]

46. You have a woman's purse, my lord!

I love that episode.....and to think that the guy playing Redbeard Rum used to be Dr Who.

P.

[Pert_UK]

47. And some more anti-Bush quotes.....

"Everything goes over your head, doesn't it, George? You should go to Jamaica and become a limbo dancer."

George: "I'm thick. I'm as thick as the big print version of the Complete Works of Charles Dickens."

Blackadder: "You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would. Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly and the part of you that can't be mentioned, I am reliably informed by women around the Court, wouldn't be worth mentioning even if it could be"