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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who spotting
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:48:20 +1100
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Blueshirt wrote on 29/12/24 8:53 pm:
> Daniel70 wrote:
> 
>> solar penguin wrote on 29/12/24 1:08 am> Blueshirt brought
>> forth:
>>>> solar penguin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Last night’s episode of the BBC2 quiz Only Connect was a
>>>>> BBC-themed special. One of the questions was what links
>>>>> these:
>>>>>
>>>>> * Queen Victoria knighted him then banished him
>>>>>
>>>>> * Queen Elizabeth I married him then called for his head
>>>>>
>>>>> * King Richard I knighted one of his companions
>>>>>
>>>>> * King James fought mud monsters with her
>>>>>
>>>>> (The contestants thought it was either Blackadder or
>>>>> Baldrick!)
>>>>
>>>> Something from "Blackadder" would have seemed the most
>>>> logical  answer to a non-Doctor Who fan...
>>>
>>> Only if they were also non-Blackadder fans.
>>
>> WHAT?? 'non-Blackadder fans'!! Does such a person even exist??
>> ;-P
> 
> <sticks hand in the air>
> 
> I could never get in to it...
> 
Is that the 'Anti-English' in you poking its head out?? ;-P You know ... 
being all about the Royals (at least the early Series were) .... but, 
then again, it didn't really display The Royals in a great light so, 
maybe, it should have appealed to the 'Anti-English'!!
-- 
Daniel