SC - Chocolate Drink - 1615

[lilinah@earthlink.net]

OHMYGOD!!! That is SOOOO hysterical!!!


>From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: SC - OT - "Bob" and the Black Adder - was, Master of the Hall?
>Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:15:35 -0400
>
>Olwen the Odd wrote:
> >
> > At the risk of sounding like I live under a bushel--
> > What is Blackadder II?
>
>This a group of related BBC historical comedy series, starring Rowan
>Atkinson, based on the premise that Richard III was a kind man and a
>good king, painted as a rotter by his eventual sucessor, Henry Tudor,
>a.k.a. Henry VII. Seems he never killed his nephews in the Tower of
>London (which he probably didn't anyway), and his nephews grew up to be
>big, strong boys.  Seems Richard _won_ the Battle of Bosworth Field,
>only to be killed in the aftermath by his sinister but incompetent
>grand-nephew, Prince Edmund, all of which places Richard's nephew, who
>was not killed in the Tower, on the throne of England in the brief,
>glorious, and entirely fictional reign of Richard IV of England. The
>rest of the series focusses on the machinations of evil Prince Edmund,
>The Black Adder (but originally styled The Black Vegetable) to take the
>throne of England over the claim of his virtuous, pinheaded elder
>brother, Prince Harry.
>
>There's a second (and to my mind, superior) series, in which the
>great-grandson of the original Prince Edmund, Lord Edmund Blackadder, is
>an impecunious courtier to Queen Elizabeth I, and in one episode
>Blackadder finds himself strangely attracted to his servant, "Bob", who
>is secretly a girl in disguise, fleeing the poverty of her childhood
>home to seek her fortune in London.
>
>Future series focus on Mr. Edmund Blackadder, butler to Prinnie, a.k.a
>The Prince Regent, later to be George IV of England, on Captain Edmund
>Blackadder, scheming to avoid the impending order to go Over The Top of
>the trenches in France, c. ~1916 C.E., and on excessively kind and
>generous banker Ebenezer Blackadder, taken advantage of by one and all,
>until being visited by three spirits who teach him the true meaning, and
>value, of being an S.O.B.
>
>There was talk of a Cavalier Era series, but I believe it never 
>materialized.
>
>Adamantius
>--
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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