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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." } ]