By the way, BBP, how did the "late-to-party" give me away?
Also, BBP, I didn't realise you were a big Blackadder fan. That's awesome - so am I!
Yes, I well remember that line about Jane "Bury Me In A Y-Shaped Coffin" Harrington.
Blackadder: (in WW1 trenches) "Baldrick..." *sighs* "...what are you doing?"
Baldrick: "I'm carving something on this bullet, sir."
Blackadder: "What?"
Baldrick: "I'm carving 'Baldrick', sir."
Blackadder: "Why?"
Baldrick: "Well, you know how they say that somewhere there's a bullet with your name on it?"
Blackadder: "Yeeeeeees?"
Baldrick: "Well, I figured if I owned the bullet with my name on it, I'd never die. 'Cos I'd never shoot myself."
Blackadder: "Oh, shame."
Baldrick: "And the chances of there being two bullets with my name on it are very small indeed."
Blackadder: "Yes, that's not the only thing around here that's very small indeed. Your brain, for instance, is so minute that if a passing hungry cannibal cracked your head open, he wouldn't find enough to cover a small water biscuit."
(As stupid as Baldrick's plan is, it has some basis in truth.
In ancient times, when soldiers with slings-and-stones used to be around, they used to carve insulting or clever messages on their stones. The messages were things like "Here's a sugar plum for you!", "For Pompey's backside!", or simply "Catch!"
Eventually, they stopped using stones and started using lead bullets in their slings, but the practice became so prevalent that a whole industry grew up to mold these lead bullets with a message already on them. Some of the messages were ... well, very sexual, and very rude).
Anyway, that's my bit of totally un-useless trivia for the day!
