On 18/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >Check the Monty Python home pages,or better yet,the Goon Show. >They used words like that alot.lol > >Dave > > > [...] >> >> > However I do take your discumbobulation in all seriositarianistic >> > hyperenbliviolousness.
I was thinking more of the episode of Blackadder where Baldrick inadvertantly burns the brand new dictionary that Doctor Samuel Johnson (Robbie Coltrane) has written. On announcing its completion, the ever- helpful Edmund Blackadder suggests a few of his own for inclusion... Blackadder II - Ink and Incapability In Prince's House (knock at door) Prince George: Enter! Edmund: Dr. Johnson, Your Highness. Prince George: Ah, Dr. Johnson! Damn cold day! Dr. Johnson: Indeed it is, sir, but a very fine one, for I celebrated last night the encyclopedic implementation of my pre-meditated orchestration of demotic Anglo-Saxon. Prince George: (nods, grinning, then speaks) Nope -- didn't catch any of that. Dr. Johnson: Well, I simply observed, sir, that I'm felicitous, since, during the course of the penultimate solar sojourn, I terminated my uninterrupted categorization of the vocabulary of our post-Norman tongue. Prince George: Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds damn *saucy*, you lucky thing! I know some fairly liberal-minded girls, but I've never penultimated any of them in a solar sojourn, or, for that matter, been given any Norman tongue! Edmund: I believe, sir, that the Doctor is trying to tell you that he is happy because he has finished his book. It has, apparently, taken him ten years. Prince George: Yes, well, I'm a slow reader myself... Dr. Johnson: (places two manuscripts on the table, but picks up the top one) Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language. Prince George: Hmm. Edmund: Every single one, sir? Dr. Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir! Edmund: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribularities. Dr. Johnson: What? Edmund: `Contrafribularites', sir? It is a common word down our way... Dr. Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book) Edmund: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation. Dr. Johnson: What? What? WHAT? Prince George: What are you on about, Blackadder? This is all beginning to sound a bit like dago talk to me. Edmund: I'm sorry, sir. I merely wished to congratulate the Doctor on not having left out a single word. (J sneers) Shall I fetch the tea, Your Highness? Prince George: Yes, yes! And get that damned fire up here, will you? Edmund: Certainly, sir. I shall return interfrastically. (exits) (J writes some more) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
