Friday, June 09, 2006

Friday drive-by quote

The most common reaction when people find out I speak Welsh is to ask "How do you pronounce that really long village name?" (I assume they're referring to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and not, say, Mold, the village named for the local weather.) So I particularly enjoyed this quote my wife sent me from Blackadder:
Blackadder: Have you ever been to Wales, Baldrick?
Baldrick: No, but I've often thought I'd like to.
Blackadder: Well, don't. It's a ghastly place. Huge gangs of tough, sinewy men roam the valleys, terrifying people with their close-harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place names. Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick. You'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.

A veritable buttload of Blackadder quotes here.

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