A normal bloke, happy family guy. With a few interests (planes, trains, tanks etc), oh, & an MBA from @uniofleicester. I was a soldier once.
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RT @militaryhistori: OTD 53yrs ago. Thames TV first broadcast this 26-part series on 31 Oct 1973. A huge promo beforehand & made a big impa…
Classic, absolute classic
Field Marshall Haig and Captain Blackadder discuss Umboto Gorge, the phone call finishing with one of the show’s great lines. A conversation etched into #Blackadder folklore.
Vid: BlackadderQtes
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In celebration of the gloriously imminent weekend, here is one of my favourite Armstrong and Miller sketches featuring the RAF pilots wot speak yoof and dat, innit blood.
Any sketch that bears the sentence “No way, you massive gaylord. What are you going to do, shoot me in the head with your gun? This isn’t Nazi Germany!” in what is supposed to be Nazi Germany, is liable to make me guffaw, but the whole thing this is an absolute belter.
Incidentally, did you know that Ben Miller is a distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln. It's true!
Good day to you.
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“I did have some help from a rather spiffing bloke. He's taken a break from some crucial top-level shagging!"
#Blackadder
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“A small painted wooden duck?”
“I thought if you got caught near water you could balance it on your head as a brilliant disguise.”
#Blackadder
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#OnThisDay in 1989 the IRA murdered Maheshkumar Islania (Mick), 34. Married father of 1. @RoyalAirForce airman murdered alongside baby daughter. After the family’s car came under fire it crossed the street & mounted pavement. Murderers kept firing into the stationary vehicle #OTD
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The moment Cpt Darling realised he wouldn’t get to marry Doris.
“Made a note in my diary on the way here. Simply says, ‘bugger’.”
Poignant scene from the incomparable final ep of #Blackadder Goes Forth with the superb Tim McInnerny.
Vid: BlackadderQtes
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
#StCrispin #StCrispinian
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It is now 37 years ago that the last episode of #Blackadder Goes Forth was screened. This TV gold concluded 3 hrs of unmatched of comedy to many of us. But there was a deeper message throughout encapsulated in this moving final scene.
Vid: BlackadderQtes
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The Eagle’s Nest is ablaze
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These books are a nod to the hundreds of thousands who went out to NI, the Balkan’s, Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere else, risking life and limb for a wage that never came close to matching the job.
We all did what most never will.
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Remembering the wonderful Carrie Fisher, who would have turned 70 today. ❤️
While she’ll forever be remembered as Princess Leia, Carrie was also an incredibly talented writer. Many fans may not know that she worked behind the scenes in Hollywood, helping rewrite scripts for films including Hook, Sister Act and The Wedding Singer, often without receiving an on-screen credit.
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Anniversary today of the battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. Importance was to crush Napoleon's ambitions of dominating the waves, though he crusaded on land on & off, until Waterloo in 1815
