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Blackadder goes fourth, I believe the phrase rhymes with "clucking bell", I could go on all night - not with a bayonet through your neck you couldn't, Melchett – "Security isn’t a dirty word - crevice is a dirty word.", We're in the stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect got stuck on a sticky bun., Wibble
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Hear the words I sing,
War’s a horrid thing,
So I sing sing sing…ding-a-ling-a-ling.
The German Guns
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom
For all the humour, the last scene is one of the finest in the series, so very moving.
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Thanks for sharing.
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You are most welcome makagutu.
We aim to please here at Clouds R Us. smiles
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Blackadder was brilliant television.
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It really was superbly written and performed. Few can match it.
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Splendid indeed, boom, boom. But I’m still trying to figure out what rhymes with “clucking bell.”
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I’ve always assumed it was ‘fair thee well’. Can’t imagine it being anything else.
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One of the finest British TV shows of all time! This has put a huge smile on my face 😀
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I’m pleased to hear it Portergirl, and concur!
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The first one (“ding-a-ling-a-ling”) is my absolute favorite moment of the whole series. :0)
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Laughing – Marvellous. I’m a huge fan of the second series actually (considers if this may be down to the beard, but feels there’s more to it than that), but the last had the most poignant writing for sure.
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Yes, indeed – the last scene is one of the finest scenes about the horrors of war that I think I’ve ever seen. All the more effective for being in a comedy.
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True. It had me wet of eye the first time I viewed it, and that continues to be the case to this day. And so it should too.
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I’m afraid I missed this series, which looks rather good judging by these fragments.
Victor Silvester (Bandleader) on being chosen to participate in a WW1 firing squad as a teenager:
“The victim was brought out from a shed and led struggling to a chair to which he was then bound and a white handkerchief placed over his heart as our target area. He was said to have fled in the face of the enemy. Mortified by the sight of the poor wretch tugging at his bonds, twelve of us, on the order raised our rifles unsteadily. Some of the men, unable to face the ordeal, had got themselves drunk overnight. They could not have aimed straight if they tried, and, contrary to popular belief, all twelve rifles were loaded. The condemned man had also been plied with whisky during the night, but I remained sober through fear.
“The tears were rolling down my cheeks as he went on attempting to free himself from the ropes attaching him to the chair. I aimed blindly and when the gun smoke had cleared away we were further horrified to see that, although wounded, the intended victim was still alive. Still blindfolded, he was attempting to make a run for it still strapped to the chair. The blood was running freely from a chest wound. An officer in charge stepped forward to put the finishing touch with a revolver held to the poor man’s temple. He had only once cried out and that was when he shouted the one word ‘mother’. He could not have been much older than me. We were told later that he had in fact been suffering from shell-shock, a condition not recognised by the army at the time. Later I took part in four more such executions.”
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Heartbreaking. Truly heartbreaking. Thank you for that H, a slice of real life to heavily underline the horrors of war. So many terrified young men killed, or irrevocably damaged.
Knowing your humour you would love Blackadder. If you do get round to it, skip the first series, it’s very different from those that follow it (a change of writers took it to skim the heady heights of genius).
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Baldrick does remind me of my time in the service when, at the request of my Sergeant, I wrote and recited an essay on the subject of why a soldier should never be heard to use profanity. Quite stirring if I remember correctly. Something about a young child crushed by the soldiers evil words, a single tear running down his rosy cheek. All the boys in my platoon stood and cheered vigorously upon its completion.
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I am moved by your description alone, and aptly have often thought of you as a kind of Baldrick.
sonmi saluting and grinning upon the Cloud
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Having had only the brief acquaintance with Baldrick which you have supplied above, but because of being thought of as “a kind of”, I have no choice but to imagine him one of the greatest heroes in the history of television.
The President and Founder
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He is as a God amongst men.
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That sounds like a lot of responsibility, though you probably meet some nice girls.
The President and Founder
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HAHAHAHAHAHA.
That seems a reasonable assumption.
sonmi watching the serial killer carefully from the Cloud
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I can’t seem to face up to the facts
The President and Founder
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzd40i8TfA
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