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The Black Adder Collection

compiled by Lee Whiteside

Various bits on The Black Adder (sort of a FAQ) including:

1. BBC Radio Times article written by John Lloyd that appeared with the
   "Black Adder the Third" Series.

2. London Times article on "Blackadder Goes Forth"

3. BBC Radio Times listings for "Black Adder the Third"

4. BBC Radio Times listings for "Blackadder Goes Forth"

5. Listing of Black Adder Songs

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26 September - 2 October 1987 issue of "Radio Times".
[Info posted by Mike Brown]

Blackadder - the untold story

Few people know the 'Blackadder the Third', like its predecessors, is not an
original script but an adaptation of an ancient set of journals, 'The Blackadder
Chronicles'.  Sir John lloyd, Loafing Professor at the University of Camelot,
argues their place in history

HISTORY IS generally taught as a series of lists: of battles, of kings and
queens, of great men and women.  Everything I know about history, for
example, firs snugly into three pages of my Filofax.
   Rarely does the true history of a whole nation or a race come down to us,
carefully documented detail for detail, and readily available in Penguin.
One thinks of Herodotus's [italic]Histories,[normal] of the Dead Sea
Scrolls, of Pepys's [italic]Diaries.[normal]  One thinks, with more
enthusiasm, of Sigourney Weaver caught in a monsoon in a silk dress in
[italic]The Year of Living Dangerously.[normal]  But it's on the video
recorder in my study.
   The great books of the past can be counted on the fingers of one packet of
thin chocolate-covered biscuits.  There are 46 of them.  Some scholars
dispute this, but they are wrong.  There's no one who knows more about
chocolate fingers than I do.  And among the classic books of history the
name of [italic]The Blackadder Chronicles[normal] springs, unfortunately,
to mind.  'Unfortunately', because it is (a) long, (b) dull and (c) utter
tosh from beginning to end.
   It is catalogue of breathtaking exaggerations, thunderous libels and
outrageous lies.  Blackadders take credit for everything from the Battle
of Trafalgar to the invention of sliced bread.  We are asked to believe '
that a Blackadder invented penicillin the Wednesday before Sir Alenander
Fleming, but threw it away because he didn't think that name was catchy
enough.  A Blackadder writes that he reached the South Pole, not only
before Scott but even before Roald Amundsen.
   He claims to have been there when they arrived one after the other some
days later, but wasn't spotted because he was wearing a white summer suit.  He
adds that he was unable to admit to the publicly because 'it's just not
the kind of thing we Freemasons boast about'.
  To add injury to insult, throughout the [italic]Chronicles[normal] we are
subject to long-winded tirades where the various authors furiosly insist on
absolving themselves from any blame for such events as the crash of the R101,
the Indian Mutiny, the loss of the American colonies or the sinking of the
[italic]Lusitania[normal].  Since no such involvement had ever occurred to one,
one can only assume that all these things were in some way the fault of the
Blackadder in question.  From the Battle of Hastings, 1066, to the Cheltenham
Gold CUp, 1924, Blackadders have unerringly backed the loser.
   Though [italic]The Blackadder Chronicles[normal] begin in the tenth century,
the name does not appear until the 14th century when Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh,
took the sobriquet 'the Black Adder' for use during his hideous nocturnal
activities.  His original choice of name - 'the Black Vegetable' - was rejected
by him as being 'too frightening'.
   There is a theory that that Blackadders are descended from an early prototype
of man called 'Homo Non-Erectus'.  But this is nonsense.  Homo Non-Erectus
died out for two very obvious reasons.  Perhaps it would have been better for
all of us it whoever it was that planted the Blackadder seed had done the same.
Because the whole family has made a spectacular cock-up of 1,000 years of
opportunity.  They have managed to pooh-pooh every invention and make sarcastic
remarks about every creative genius from Galileo to Jeffrey Archer.
   Consider for example, Baron de Blackadder (1187-1217).  He was one of only
three barons in England not to sign the Magna Carta.  The other two failed to
attend the ceremony because they were shot, roasted and eaten by Friar Tuck in
mistake for deer; Blackadder because he 'couldn't see the point in it'.
  But while it is the case that Blackadders have missed of the great events
of history, it can be said that members of the line [italic]were[normal]
present at at least [italic]some[normal] memorable historical events.  The
Crusades, for example.  It was Sir Edmund de Blackadder who led the disastrous
23rd crusade (over August Bank Holiday Weekend 1972) which ended in ignom-
inious defeat when the broadsword in his attache case set off the beeper
at Tel Aviv airport.
   In the early 1940s, Edmund T. Blackadder Jr had the distinction of
working on the Manhattan Project for the Allied governments in New York.
The purpose of the Project was, initally, to find ways of ending the war
as loudly as possible.  Blackadder shared an office with Sir Dilwyn Rhys Whys,
the Welsh nobody.  Two offices down the corrider, Oppenheimer shared with
Enrico Fermi.  Within three weeks Fermi and Oppenheimer had discovered
the atomic bomb; Blackadder and Sir Dilwyn had discovered the minuscule
holes in the sides of Biros.
   The history of the Baldricj family recurs repeatedly throughout the
[italic]Chronicles[normal].  There is even a family tree.  It tells the
pathetic tale.  Over 3,000 names, and every one of them the same.  Even,
as far as one can tell, the women.
  And where is he now, this last sad ambassador of his line?  Two years ago I
though I glimpsed a baldrick dressed in a frilly mob cap doing a walk-on in
a PG Tips commercial.
   Baldricks have had a bit of a bad aeon, on the whole.  They have been
dismembered in history's great battles, not been invited to history's,
run over by great advances in transport, trampled on in the great gold
rushes.  Practically the family's only claim to fame is the hand of an
earlky Baldrick appears under the rear left hoof of the horse of Sir Guy
de Honfleur.
   And the greatest achievement of the Blackadder dynasty?  A dinner party
 in Chelsea in 1968, where the present Edmund Blackadder had the distinction
of being the first man to scoff at flared trousers.
   The current programmes are adapted from Volume XIV of the Chronicles,
covering the period 1760-1815.  The fortunes of the Blackadder in question
have sunk to the point where he is merely the butler to the Prince of
Wales, the son of George III.  The fortunes of the Baldrick in question
have not sunk.  He has stayed where he is.  Right at the bottom.

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Blackadder Goes Forth Article (posted by Lee Whiteside)

          [From the Times (London) October 22, 1989]

          Blackadder supreme as he reaches the final frontier

          PATRICK STODDARD on the end of an era for a comic invention

          We are gathered here today to bid a slightly premature
          farewell to Edmund Blackadder, who is not very much longer
          for this world.  When the fourth series comes to what its
          co-writer, Richard Curtis, darkly describes as its "very
          definitive last episode" on BBC1 in two weeks, it is almost
          certainly the last we will see of the most slippery dynasty
          since - as Captain Blackadder might have said to Private
          Baldrick - the incredibly mean Emporer Ting covered his
          grandchildren in yak grease, pushed them down the Great Wall
          of China and said he'd bought them a roler coaster for
          Christmas.

          It all seems very sad, particularly as the current series, in
          which Blackadder is doing everything in his power to get out
          of the trenches, is the most assured of the lot.  The lines
          are not only hilarious, but often elegant, and the characters
          have more flesh on them than in previous incarnations.  There
          is even some proper acting, especially in the bitter
          exchanges between Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder and Tim
          McInnerny, as his sworn enemy, Captain Darling.

          The producer, John Lloyd, who has also won campaign medals
          for "Not The Nine O'Clock News", "Spitting Image" and "The
          Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", agrees that this is the
          Blackadder to end all Blackadders, but he insists that ending
          it was not his idea.  "It's not me who wants to throw it all
          away, it's the writers," he says plaintively.  "Things do get
          very tense by the end of a series, because everyone involved
          in the thing is very clever, and very funny, and they all
          want to push the scripts along."

            "It's a very exhausting process, and by the end of it we
          all swear we'll never, ever, do another ones.  But then you
          start to think how rare it is to get so many good people in
          the same room and you talk yourself into doing another
          series."

          Not this time, says Curtis.  "If you're making a lemon sauce,
          all you need is a bit of lemon.  But if you're making chilli,
          everybody can shove bits in, and Blackadder is a very rich
          chilli.  Everybody on the show thinks they can put in good
          jokes, despite the fact that Ben Elton and I think there are
          already quite a few good ones in there to start with.  It
          does usually end up funnier, but it's time to do something
          over which I have more control."

          This is a not particularly oblique way of saying that, for
          the moment, the men who make Blackadder are sick of the sight
          of each other - a natural consequence of creative tension and
          not anything that gets in the way of long-term (if combative)
          friendships.  Curtis says: "It's possible that we'll all work
          together again, but we're not likely to meet up two years
          from now and decide to do something we've already done four
          times.  There were only four gospels, for God's sake."

          In other words, the men who breathed life into Edmund
          Blackadder have run out of puff - a fact that Curtis and
          Lloyd agree upon in uncanny chorus. "Nobody can think of a
          new synonym to describe how small Baldrick's brain is," says
          Lloyd, while Curtis claims: "We were running out of insults
          for the size of Baldrick's brain."

          More important, they are running out of eras for Blackadder
          to pop up in.  Lloyd says: "If you look at most of the really
          great comedies - Fawlty Towers, Porridge - they are about
          characters trapped in aspic.  They are all resourceful,
          bright people, but there's a block they can't get past."

          In Blackadders case, the block has usually been the one you
          put your head on if a truly lunatic despot decides you have
          forgotten your place.  The heads of the medieval and
          Elizabethan Blackadders courtiers were never more than
          moments from the blade, and if the current Captain Blackadder
          sticks his head above the parapet as regularly as the mad
          general thinks he should, he'll get it shot off.

          This does not augur well.  A second world war Blackadder
          would offend too many people, and would anyway be a lot like
          the first world war Blackadder.  Otherwiae, we are mercifully
          short of life-threatening situations at the moment, so any
          future Blackadders would have to face less terminal threats.

          There might be a good party game in dreaming up places for
          Blackadder to go next, although Curtis insists that if
          anybody tries it, they must find roles for all five members
          of the repertory.  Blackadder the Thatcherite MP would have
          worked, if Rik Mayall hadn't got in first with "The New
          Statesman".  Blackadder, bored lord of a crumbling country
          seat, might work yet.  Or Blackadder the black sheep, packed
          off to a colonial backwater to brood among the rubber trees?

          If any new series must be set in a later period than the
          last, how about Blackadder in Space?  "We did think about a
          science fiction series," says Curtis, "but then we remembered
          that John was a bit of an expert on space.  The interference
          would have been awful."

          One last throw, and with it, a tiny glimmer of hope.  Why not
          Blackadder in the Swinging Sixties?  "Actually, Rik Mayall
          suggested that," says Curtis.  "We thought it was a wonderful
          idea.  Rowan would be the really shifty manager of the
          Blackadder Five, and Tony Robinson could be the hairless
          drummer, Bald Rick."

          Keep talking, Richard.  Keep talking.


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Radio Times Listings for Black Adder the Third
[info posted by Mike Brown]

NEW SERIES (BBC1)

17 September
9.30 Blackadder
the Third
by RICHARD CURTIS
and BEN ELTON
England 1760-1815.
A golden age of wealth,
power and discovery.  But not
for E. Blackadder Esq, butler
to the Prince Regent.
Rowan Atkinson
as Blackadder
with Tony Robinson
as Baldrick
Hugh Laurie
as Prince George
and Helen Atkinson Wood
as Mrs. Miggins

1: Dish and Dishonesty
The new Prime Minister Pitt
the Younger (aged 13 3/4) plans
to bankrupt the prince.  As
usual, Blackadder takes his
master's side (and indeed his
wallet).  A rip-roaring tale of
sex and politics, not to be
missed for its libel-action opportunities.
His own great-great
grandfather...VINCENT HANNA
Sir Talbot Buxomly, MP
                 DENIS LILL
Pitt the Younger
              SIMON OSBORNE
Pitt the Even Younger
           DOMINIC MARTELLI
Ivor Biggun
          GEOFFREY MCGIVERN
Brimming with corruption
and deviancy, yum yum yum
                    HANSARD
Designer ANTONY THORPE
Director MANDIE FLETCHER
Producer JOHN LLOYD


24 September
9.30 Blackadder
the Third
by RICHARD CURTIS
and BEN ELTON
England 1760-1815.  A golden
age of English literature.  But
not for Gertude Perkins
(Alias E. Blackadder Esq.)
Rowan Atkinson
as Blackadder
with Tony Robinson as Baldrick
Hugh Laurie
as Prince George and
Helen Atkinson Wood
as Mrs. Miggins

2: Ink and Incapability
Dr. Johnson seeks the
Prince's support for his new
dictionary with
adumbraceous results!
Dr. Samual Johnson
       ROBBIE COLTRANE
Byron......STEVE STEEN
Shelly......LEE CORNES
Coleridge..JIM SWEENEY
Dr Johnson: a harmless
drudge
Butler: a loathsome menial
Baldrick: (see dung)
  JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY
Designer ANTONY THORPE
Director MANDIE FLETCHER
Producer JOHN LLOYD


1 October
9.30 Blackadder
the Third
by RICHARD CURTIS
and BEN ELTON
England 1760-1815.
Revolution sweeps France,
and Baldwick sweeps
whatever Blackadder tells
him to.
Rowan Atkinson
as Blackadder
with Tony Robinson as Baldrick
Hugh Laurie
as Prince George and
Helen Atkinson Wood
as Mrs. Miggins

3:Nob and Nobility
As heads roll under the blade
of Madame Guillotine, one
brave Englishman risks his
life to save vital French
aristocrats.  That man is not
Edmund Blackadder.  In this
exciting episode Baldrick
cleans a potato.
Lord Topper....TIM MCINNERY
Lord Smedley...NIGEL PLANER
Ambassador.....CHRIS BARRIE
Bonjour, mon ami, deux
crossants s'il vous plait
                ROBESPIERRE
Designer ANTONY THORPE
Director MANDIE FLETCHER
Producer JOHN LLOYD



8 October
9.30 Blackadder
the Third
by RICHARD CURTIS
and BEN ELTON
England 1760-1815.
A period noted for some
really appalling theatre, to
all of which the Prince
Regent drags his butler
Blackadder.
Rowan Atkinson
is Blackadder
with
Tony Robinson as Baldrick
Hugh Laurie
as Prince George, and
Helen Atkinson Wood
as Mrs. Miggins

4:Sense and Senility
Anarchists lurk in every
cupboard and actors in every
coffee house.  Which pose a
greater threat to the prince
Regent?  And more
importantly, will his trousers
stand the strain?
Keanrick...HUGH PADDICK
Mossop...KENNETH CONNOR
Anarchist.....BEN ELTON
Designer ANTONY THORPE
Director MANDIE FLETCHER
Producer JOHN LLOYD



15 October
9.30 Blackadder the Third
by RICHARD CURTIS
and BEN ELTON
England 1760-1815.
Beautiful women, dashing
highwaymen, effeminate
haircuts: and much, much
more . . .
Rowan Atkinson
is Blackadder
with
Tony Robinson as Baldrick
Hugh Laurie
as Prince George, and
Helen Atkinson Wood
as Mrs. Miggins

5:Cape and Capability
[titled Amy and Amiability]
A bride for the Prince
Regent, a bridle for Baldrick
and a bridlumble for
Blackadder.  Tune in to this
week's gripping episode to
find out what a bridlumble is
(or not as the case may be).
Amy Hardwood
   MIRANDA RICHARDSON
Josiah Hardwood
        WARREN CLARKE
The Hon Sally Poultry
        BARBARA HORNE
Duke of Cheapside
           ROGER AVON
Not what I personally would
call gripping actually
          DICK TURPIN
Designer ANTONY THORPE
Director MANDIE FLETCHER
Producer JOHN LLOYD



22 October
9.30 Blackadder the Third
by RICHARD CURTIS
and BEN ELTON
England 1760-1815.
Remembered by historians
nowhere as the dates of
E. Blackadder Esq, butler to
Prince Regent.
Rowan Atkinson
is Blackadder
with
Tony Robinson as Baldrick
Hugh Laurie
as Prince George, and
Helen Atkinson Wood
as Mrs. Miggins

6:Duel and Duality
Will Edmund's Scottish
cousin MacAdder save him
from death at the hands of
the fearsome Duke of
Wellington, or is he more
interested in Mrs. Miggin's
buns?  The final episode:
bursting at the seams
with sex, violence, revenge
and porridge.
Duke of Wellington
         STEPHEN FRY
King George III
      GERTAN KLAUBER
Hoots o'laughter.  Not a dry
wee sleekit beestie in the house
               BURNS
Designer ANTONY THORPE
Director MANDIE FLETCHER
Producer JOHN LLOYD

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Blackadder Goes Forth Radio Times Listings
[info posted by Mike Brown]

28 September THURSDAY
NEW SERIES
9.30pm
Blackadder Goes Forth
by Richard Curtis
and Ben Elton.
The Western Front, 1917: Two million men
entrenched in the war - with no way out.
But one man has other ideas.
Plan A: Captain Cook
When  General   Haig  unveils   his  new
strategy  to  move  his  drinks  cabinet
nearer to  Berlin, Blackadder volunteers
to be Official War Artist.
Capt Blackadder...........ROWAN ATKINSON
Pte Baldrick...............TONY ROBINSON
Lt Colthurst St Barleigh.....HUGH LAURIE
Gen Melchett.................STEPHEN FRY
Capt Darling...............TIM MCINNERNY
Designer......................CHRIS HULL
Director...................RICHARD BODEN
Producer......................JOHN LLOYD


5 October THURSDAY
9.30pm
Blackadder Goes Forth
by Richard Curtis
and Ben Elton.
1917: two  million men  are doomed,  but
one man will be damned if he's doomed.
Plan B: Corporal Punishment
When  orders  for  'Operation  Insanity'
arrive, Blackadder  breaches regulations
by eating the messenger.
Capt Blackadder...........ROWAN ATKINSON
Pte Baldrick...............TONY ROBINSON
Lt Colthurst St Barleigh.....HUGH LAURIE
Gen Melchett.................STEPHEN FRY
Capt Darling...............TIM MCINNERNY
Cpl Perkins.................JEREMY HARDY
Cpl Jones..................STEPHEN FROST
Pte Fraser....................LEE CORNES
Pte Robinson............PAUL MARK ELLIOT
Pte Tipplewick............JEREMY GITTINS
Designer......................CHRIS HULL
Director...................RICHARD BODEN
Producer......................JOHN LLOYD


12 October THURSDAY
9.30pm
Blackadder Goes Forth
by Richard Curtis
and Ben Elton.
1917: two  million men  are doomed.  One
man is damned if he's doomed.
Plan C: Major Star
The   October   Revolution   in   Moscow
produced  three   appalling  results:  a
cease-fire by  Russia, an  offensive  by
Germany and a Charlie Chaplin impression
by Baldrick.
Capt Blackadder...........ROWAN ATKINSON
Pte Baldrick...............TONY ROBINSON
Lt Colthurst St Barleigh.....HUGH LAURIE
Gen Melchett.................STEPHEN FRY
Capt Darling...............TIM MCINNERNY
Driver Parkhurst......GABRIELLE GLAISTER
Designer......................CHRIS HULL
Director...................RICHARD BODEN
Producer......................JOHN LLOYD


19 October THURSDAY
9.30pm
Blackadder Goes Forth
by Richard Curtis
and Ben Elton.
1917: two  million men  are doomed.  One
man is damned if he's doomed.
Plan D: Private Plane
German machine  guns in  front,  British
firing squads  behind - the only way out
is up-tiddly-up-up.
Captain Blackadder........ROWAN ATKINSON
Pte Baldrick...............TONY ROBINSON
Lt Colthurst St Barleigh.....HUGH LAURIE
Gen Melchett.................STEPHEN FRY
Capt Darling...............TIM MCINNERNY
Sqn Cdr Lord Flashheart.......RIK MAYALL
Baron van Richthoven....ADRIAN EDMONDSON
Ober Lt von Gerhardt.......HUGO E. BLICK
Driver Parkhurst......GABRIELLE GLAISTER
Make-up designer..........CAROLINE NOBLE
Costume designer.........ANNIE HARDUNGLE
Designer......................CHRIS HULL
Director...................RICHARD BODEN
Producer......................JOHN LLOYD


26 October THURSDAY
9.30pm
Blackadder Goes Forth
by Richard Curtis
and Ben Elton.
1917: two  million men  are doomed.  One
man is damned if he's doomed.
Plan E: General Hospital
Ordered to  find a  spy in the hospital,
Blackadder spots  a beautiful  nurse,  a
man with  a strong  German accent called
'Smith' and  a chance for three weeks in
bed.
Captain Blackadder........ROWAN ATKINSON
Pte Baldrick...............TONY ROBINSON
Lt Colthurst St Barleigh.....HUGH LAURIE
Gen Melchett.................STEPHEN FRY
Capt Darling...............TIM MCINNERNY
Nurse Mary............MIRANDA RICHARDSON
`Smith'......................BILL WALLIS
Videotape editor.........CHRIS WADSWORTH
Costume designer.........ANNIE HARDUNGLE
Designer......................CHRIS HULL
Director...................RICHARD BODEN
Producer......................JOHN LLOYD


2 November THURSDAY
9.30pm
Blackadder Goes Forth
by Richard Curtis
and Ben Elton.
Plan F: Goodbyeee...
The final  big push looms, so Blackadder
goes mad.
Captain Blackadder........ROWAN ATKINSON
Pte Baldrick...............TONY ROBINSON
Lt Colthurst St Barleigh.....HUGH LAURIE
Gen Melchett.................STEPHEN FRY
Capt Darling...............TIM MCINNERNY
Field Marshal Haig.......GEOFFREY PALMER
Lighting designer...........HENRY BARBER
Designer......................CHRIS HULL
Director...................RICHARD BODEN
Producer......................JOHN LLOYD

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The Black Adder Song List

Original transcriptions by Jeff Hildebrand
Corrections and other transcriptions by Ron Hayter

[Other contributions, corrections or repostings by Stan Brown,
Barb Prillaman and Angela Lyson]

THE BLACK ADDER

(episodes 1-5)

The sound of hoof beats 'cross the glade,
Good folk, lock up your son and daughter,
Beware the deadly flashing blade,
Unless you want to end up slaughtered.

Black Adder, Black Adder, he rides a pitch black steed.
Black Adder, Black Adder, he's very bad indeed.

Black:  his gloves of finest mole,
Black:  his codpiece made of metal,
His horse is blacker than a vole,
His pot is blacker than his kettle.

Black Adder, Black Adder, with many an cunning plan.
Black Adder, Black Adder, you horrid little man.

(episode 6)

So now the wage of sin is paid,
The blameless dead, the black steed grazes.
The only sound across the glade
Is Edmund pushing up the daisies.

Black Adder, Black Adder, a shame about the plan.
Black Adder, Black Adder, tha' worked, you horrid man.


BLACK ADDER II

"Bells"

Lord Flashheart tweaked the Adder's beard.
>From now he always shall be single.
To fall in love with boys is weird,
Especially boys without a dingle.

Black Adder, Black Adder, his taste is rather odd.
Black Adder, Black Adder, the randy little sod.

Lord Flashheart, Lord Flashheart, I wish you were the star.
Lord Flashheart, Lord Flashheart, you're sexier by far.

"Head"

His great-grandfather was a king,
Although for only thirty seconds.
When put in charge of beheading,
He felt that fame and glory beckoned.

Black Adder, Black Adder, no such blooming luck.
Black Adder, Black Adder, Elizabethan shmuck.

Black Adder, Black Adder, nothing goes as planned.
Black Adder, Black Adder, life deals him a bum hand.


"Potato"

Sir Francis and Sir Walter had
Discovered new worlds and new nations.
And though Black Adder thought them mad,
He tried his hand at navigation.

Black Adder, Black Adder, he saw the ocean's foam.
Black Adder, Black Adder, he should have stayed at home.

Black Adder, Black Adder, he heard the new world's call.
Black Adder, Black Adder, discovered bugger-all.

"Money"

Take heed the moral of this tale:
Be not a borrower or lender.
And if your finances do fail,
Make sure your banker's not a bender.

Black Adder, Black Adder, he trusted in the church.
Black Adder, Black Adder, it left him in the lurch.

Black Adder, Black Adder, his life was almost done.
Black Adder, Black Adder, who gives a toss?  No one.


"Beer"

Black Adder couldn't hold his beer.
The art of boozing he's not mastered.
And I, your merry balladeer,
Am also well and truly plastered.

Black Adder, Black Adder, a bit like Robin Hood.
Black Adder, Black Adder, but nothing like as good.

Black Ad<hic>, Black Adder, I thought that he had died.
Black Adder, Black Adder, our writers must have lied.


"Chains"

Beware all ye who lust for fame.
The path of life is most uncertain.
Prince Ludwig thought he'd won the game.
But now the Kraut's gone for a burton.

Black Adder, Black Adder, he beat the Hun by luck.
Black Adder, Black Adder, he's smarter than a duck.

Lord Melchett, Lord Melchett, intelligent and deep.
Lord Melchett, Lord Melchett, a shame about the sheep.



BLACKADDER'S CHRISTMAS CAROL

He's kind & gen'rous to the sick,
He'd never spread a nasty rumour.
He never gets on people's wick,
And doesn't laugh at toilet humour.

Blackadder, Blackadder,
He's sickeningly good.
Blackadder, Blackadder,
As nice as Christmas pud.

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Barb Prillaman                          "Blackadder!  What are you saying??
BITNET:  prillaman@niehs,                What of loyalty, honour, self-respect?"
         bop@nihcu                            "What of 'em?"
INTERNET:  [e-mail]               "...Nothing."
                                                  [Stephen Fry, Rowan Atkinson
                                                   -- BLACKADDER II (Chains)]
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Angela Lyson
Mobile Data International    ...!uunet!van-bc!mdivax1!lyson
11411 Number Five Road
Richmond, B.C. Canada V7A 4Z3    Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! Walter Gage
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Current Mike Brown .sig
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      harvard\                          spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown
Vidiot  ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!vidiot!brown
      rutgers/            INTERNET:vidiot![e-mail]
                                   [e-mail]
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Lee Whiteside   [e-mail]
                [e-mail]
                Magrathea BBS [phone]

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