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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Edmund, then, this is it. Oh! Have you got clean underwear? And don’t eat foreign food. And watch out for strange men, and discover me a country, and bring me back a vegetable, and -oh- everything!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Madam! I shall do all I can. ... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh, Sir Walter, Really! ——————–"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Not joining us in the “ha-ha”‘s, Percy?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "No! I’m thinking of England and the girl I left behind me."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh, God; I didn’t know you had a girl."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh, yes. Lady Caroline Fairfax."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Caroline! I didn’t know you knew her."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh, yes! I even touched her once."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Touched her what?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Uh, once. In the corridor."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I’ve never heard it called that before . Here- when you get home in six months, you’ll be a hero. She might even let you get your hands on her twice."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I fear not."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Why not?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "We’ve got no hope. No hope of ever returning."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "On the contrary, we are certain to return!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What?!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Because, me old sods, we are not going to the Cape of Good Hope at all."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "WHAT?!!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "We are in fact going – to France!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "But, Edmund, surely France has already been discovered."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, precisely; it’s a trick. We just camp down in the ?Dardonnes? for six months, get a good suntan, come home, pretend we’ve been ’round the Cape, and get all the glory... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "A masterly plan, me young master. And one that leads me to make an announcement meself."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "What’s that, Rum?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Truth is, I don’t know the way to the Cape of Good Hope anyway."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, what were you going to do?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh, what I usually do. Sail ’round and ’round the Isle of Wight ’til everyone gets dizzy. Then head for home."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "You old rascal. Still, who cares; the day after tomorrow we shall be in Calais. Captain, set sail for France! So. You... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "No! I must confess that, too."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Bugger! ——————–"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I’ll tell you something else. Edmund was right. You do smell of fish. Pooey! ——————–"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Look, there’s no need to panic. Someone in the crew will know how to steer this thing."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "The crew, milord?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes, the crew."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What crew?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I was under the impression that it was common maritime practice for a ship to have a crew."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Opinion is divided on the subject."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh, really?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Yahs. All the other captains say it is; I say it isn’t."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh, God; Mad as a brush. ——————–"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I fear that may be wishful thinking, Majesty. ——————–"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Enter. So soon?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "You said today."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes, well, I’m not feeling very thirsty at the moment. I had an egg-cup full of stagnant water three weeks ago… Oh all right, come on, let’s get on with it."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Should we drink each other’s or stick to our own?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Is Captain Rum joining us for this bring-a-sample party, or is he going to sit this one out?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh no, he’s been swigging his for ages. He says he likes it. Actually, come to think of it, he started before the water ran out."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh, God. Well, let’s get on with it. It’s always the same, isn’t it; you get all keyed up and then... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I’ve done two bottles"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "All right, then; pour it out. That it should come to this, drinking Baldrick’s water."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Say when. Rum : Land Ahoy!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ah! France at last!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Don’t look much like Southampton to me, my lord."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "What?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Well, those streams of molten lava and that steamy mangrove swamp. And that crowd of beckoning natives rubbing their tummies and pointing to a large pot."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh, God. ——————–"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Well, Madam, if they haven’t been eaten by cannibals, they should be back any minute now."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ma’am!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Edmund! You’re alive!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh, yes."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "But where is Captain Rum?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Uh, bad news, my Lady; Rum is dead."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Do not despair, good woman. He died a hero’s death: giving his life that his friends might live."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "And that his enemies might have something to go with their potatoes."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "You mean they put him in the pot?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes, your fiance was only a third-rate sailor, but a first-rate second course. However, we did manage to save something of him as a memento. There."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh, my lucky stars; I shall wear it always, to remind me of him ."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "However, Ma’am, I am now returned, and my mind cannot help remembering talk of wedding bells."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "No, I am completely bored with explorers! And if you haven’t brought me any presents, I’m going to have you executed!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ma’am?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I only let Raleigh off because he blubbed on his way to the block. Presents, please!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ah yes, Ma’am. Um, yes. Well, there was one thing, Ma’am, a most extraordinary gift from the island paradise we visited."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hurry up!!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Is it a stick,, Lord Blackadder?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ah yes, Ma’am, but it is a very special stick. Because when you throw it away, it comes back!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What else have you brought?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Um, yes, well, there was very little time what with picking the weevils out of biscuits and-"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "-Melchy, what did I do with that spare death warrant? Oh, Edmund, it’s wonderful! But what about Melchy and Raleigh? You must have brought something for them as well. -Nursie’s got her beard, I’ve got my stick; what about the two boys?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"co... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "good…"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "…A fine wine! A most delicious beverage!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh yes, this is very familiar."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I’m sure you’ll be glad to hear that there is an inexhaustible supply! ————— END ————— Check out the Theme Tune from Blackadder Series 2! Go away."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "My Lord, there is someone at the door to see you."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh god. What time is it?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Four o’clock."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Baldrick, I’ve told you before: you mustn’t let me sleep all day; this woman charges by the hour."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "No, My Lord, it’s four o’clock in the morning."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Someone wants to see me at four in the morning? What is he, a giant lark?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "No, he’s a priest."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Tell him I’m jewish."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Aren’t you going to introduce me, then?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "What?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Aren’t you going to introduce me to your friend?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh very well, but I think you’re making a terrible mistake. Baldrick, I’m delighted to introduce you to … I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten your name."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Mollie!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Of course, Mollie. Baldrick, this is Mollie, a dear friend of mine."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I’m not dear. I’m very reasonable actually, Baldrick. Most girls would charge an extra sixpence for all the horrible things he wants to do."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Alright, alright. Baldrick, this is Mollie, an inexpensive prostitute. Mollie, this is ... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Well, what about this priest?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Tell him to take his sacred backside out of here, and what’s more, if he comes begging again, tell him I shall report him to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who drowns babies at their christening and... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Bye bye, Mollie!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Get out; go on! You’re a one, aren’t you? When you should be whispering sweet conversational nothings like “Goodness me, something twice the size of the Royal Barge has just hoved into view between the sheets,”... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "He was treating me like a human being."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Look, if I had wanted a lecture on the rights of Man, I would have gone to bed with Martin Luther. Yes, what is it, Baldrick?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "It’s that priest. He says he still wants to see you."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "And did you mention the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I did, My Lord."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "And what did he say?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "He said, “I am the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells!”"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Good lord!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "You haven’t any children, have you, Blackadder."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "No, no, I’m not married."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "In that case, I’ll skip breakfast and get straight down to business. Do you know what day it is today?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Er…"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "It was exactly one year ago to the day that the Bank of the Black Monks of St. Herod — “Banking with a smile and a stab” — of which I am the assistant manager, lent you one thousand pounds. Our motto is “Repayment or Revenge.”"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "That’s no concern of mine. The debt is now due. Failure to pay back a loan is a sin, and we Black Monks, we HATE SIN!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ah. Erm, Your Grace, may introduce my mother … Mother, this is–"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "And, as for you, you come with me."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Where?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "To visit the last poor fool who LOST HIS WALLET!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "“William Greeves: born 1513 in Chelshood with the love of Christ; died 1563 in … agony with a spike up his bottom.”"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I think you get my message."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Erm, yes, yes indeed. But, tell me, Bishop, let me just test the water here, so to speak. Erm, supposing I was to say to you something like, “I’m a close friend of the Queen’s, and I think she’d be v... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I would say, firstly, “The Queen would not believe you,” and, secondly, “You’ll regret calling me `Fatso’, later today!”"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ah."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh! Poor Tom’s cold! Pity poor Tom, for his nose is frozen, and he does shiver, and HE’S MAD!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh shut up! So, lads, I’m up a certain creek without a certain instrument. Either I raise a thousand pounds by this evening, or I get... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "It’s obvious."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "What?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh, come now, Baldrick. A piffling thousand? Pay the fellow, Edmund, and damn his impudence."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I haven’t got a thousand, dunghead! I’ve got 85 quid in the whole world!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "But you’re always boasting to the Queen about how wealthy you are."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ah, a cunning web of deceit, subtly spun about the court to improve my standing, unfortunately."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What, do you mean you’ve been … fibbing?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yep. My whole life has been a tissue of whoppers. I consider myself one of England’s finest liars. Oh, my god, Percy! A giant hummingbird is about to eat your hat and cloak!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh no!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "You see? I’m terrific at it."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "It seems to have gone now. Well, couldn’t you just dip into the family fortune?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "There isn’t one. My father blew it all on wine, women and amateur dramatics. At the end, he was eking out of a living doing humourous impressions o... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh, Edmund, I am sorry — I had no idea. But do not despair, for I have some small savings carefully harvested from my weekly allowance, set aside against my frail old age. By lucky haps, it is just over a thousand, methinks, and has for years has been hidden beyond the wit of a... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Then you are doomed. Alas. For God’s sake, let us sit upon the carpet and tell sad stories."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Certainly not! When Lord Blackadder is in trouble, he does not sit about."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "You won’t be able to sit about with a spike up your bottom."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, exactly. But still, I’ve got 85 quid and that’s a start. I’m sure I’ll think of something, as long as I’m not disturbed."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "My Lord, the Queen dost demand your urget presence on pain of death."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh god! The path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the Devil’s own Satanic herd! Madam, you sent for me…"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Did I? I don’t remember. What a naughty scatterbrain I am! Zap!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, perhaps, Ma’am, if I might be allowed to withdraw, I have one or two tiny matters to attend to."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "And so naughty!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "What, My Lady?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I do know why I wanted to see you, and I just pretended I didn’t, and I fooled you. And it worked brilliantly, didn’t it!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "It was terrific, Madam. I thank God I wore my corset, because I think my sides have split. So why did you... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Or perhaps, Blackadder, you don’t think the Queen’s jokes are funny enough for you to be troubled with."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Au contraire. I’m ecstatic about the whole incident. I only didn’t laugh out loud because I was afraid if I did, my head wo... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "If you don’t start soon, your head will fall off! Now pay Melchy his 85 pounds and run along."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "85 pounds?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "We had a bet. I said that you wouldn’t fall for my trick, and Melchy said you would because I’m so super and you’re so stupid. So you owe him 85 pounds."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Fine, fine. I mean, it’s only money, isn’t it! I can not believe it! She d... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Edmund, oh Edmund, I’ve awaited your return!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "And thank God you did, for I was just thinking, “My god! I die in 12 hours. What I really need now is a hug from a complete prat!”"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "But fear not, for I have a plan to save the life of my dear dear friend."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Look, I’m not interested in your bloody friends! What about me?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Not bad, Edmund. That’s a good one."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh, alright, then. What’s your big plan, blockhead?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I intend to discover, this very afternoon, the secret of alchemy — the hidden art of turning base things into gold."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I see, and the fact that this secret has eluded the most intelligent people since the dawn of time doesn’t damp... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh no; I like a challenge!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, Balders, I lost the 85 quid. The grave opens up before me like a … big hole in the ground."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Well, I did have one idea, My Lord, but … nah, it’s stupid, you wouldn’t…"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "What is it?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Well, I have heard there’s good money to be made down the docks, doing favours for sailors."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Favours? What do you mean? Delivering messages, sewing on buttons — that kind of thing?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Erm, not quite."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Baldrick!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "My Lord?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Are you suggesting that I become a rent boy?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Well, good-looking bloke like you, posh accent, nice legs — you can make a . Just stick a pink carnation in your hat and, er, make the old sign."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I’d rather die."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh, fair enough, that’s all right, then. I’ll just put the kettle on while we wait, shall I?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "On second thought, with a slight alteration, your sick and sordid plan might just work."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Give me a kiss and I’ll give you a penny."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A penny?!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Well, alright then — tuppence!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Oh, all right, go on."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Nothing fancy. Just a peck. I miss my mum, you see. When I a little kid, my mother always used to come up–"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Look, get a move on! He’s a prostitute, not an agony aunt!"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Go on, please! Just a little peck on the cheek, and say, “There there, Arthur — Mummy’ll kiss it better, and you shall have a story.”"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, I don’t know. Do you do requests, Baldrick?"
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh, go on, please! I miss my mother so much. I mean, she was like a mother to me!"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, alright, go on, Baldrick."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I’ve forgotten what I’m supposed to say."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Get out of the way; I’ll do it. There there, Arthur . Mummy kiss it better, and you shall have a story."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What kind of a story?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, I don’t know … one about a squirrel, I suppose. …and then Squirry the Squirrel went… Arthur and Baldrick: …”Neep neep neep!”… …and they all went home for tea."
}
] |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Ah, thanks very much, me ol’ shivering mateys! That was wonderful. Now then, how much do you charge for a good hard shag?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A thousand pounds."
}
] |
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