Category: Piffle
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What is Sprito?
I’m sure I must be missing something with this, so forgive me if I’m being dumb (it’s more than likely). I was watching an episode of Cybill the other day, and this shot came on the screen. And I thought ‘oh look, a little bit of product placement for Sprite around the time it was…
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The Monorchism Conundrum
‘Hitler,’ we sang with glee. ‘Has only got one ball.’ ‘The other,’ we chortled. ‘Is in the Albert Hall.’ It’s no wonder Adolf was a little peeved at us, and threw a bomb-based temper tantrum. We’d stolen his testicle, and ensconced it in a national monument. You’d be annoyed. I’d be irate. Some threads shouldn’t…
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What’s Behind Blackadder’s Mystery Door?
At the risk of running down a rabbit hole armed with nothing more than an empty brain and boredom, let’s have a look at the mystery door on the set of Blackadder The Third. That one in the back corner, behind Blackadder. Where does it lead? It might help for us to get a better…
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Let’s Go Fly A Kite
I was watching something last night that had a cutaway shot to two people in a field making a half-arsed effort to fly a kite, and it bought up a strong, but long forgotten memory. I was about eight, probably, and me and my brother were in a field next to the sailing club we…
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My Most Enthusiastic Contrafibularities
I was never sure whenever I watched Ink & Incapability if all the words Blackadder used were real, or if, as I mostly suspected, they were neologisms. You have to admire the mangling of the subtitles here, even on a made up word. Is that how it was written on the page? Because that’s not…
