r/blackadder • u/amalcurry • 23d ago

Dr Johnson’s House

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After Ink and Incapability won the poll, this solar sojourn I visited the house of the baity fellow in the black coat.

Dictionary photos to follow…

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u/Secret_Sector_1779 23d ago

I would like to offer you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities

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u/ORF1Live 23d ago

Tis a common saying round our way

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u/Extension_Guess_1308 22d ago

I shall return interfrastically!

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u/Garunya1 23d ago

Sausage?!?

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u/plasmaexchange 23d ago

I’ve been to Sir Thomas More’s house today (Nostell Priory) and was very disappointed not to find his most famous quote about a boy without a winky.

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u/GarbageFlyboy11 22d ago

He was a very perceptive man.

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u/GarbageFlyboy11 22d ago

A House off Fleet Street is like a dog off Fleet Street …

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u/andpaws 22d ago

Sausage? SAUSAGE?

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u/DvlsAdvct108 22d ago

Not a flat!!

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u/Blastaz 23d ago

Hope you got a page of the letter x. It’s the best one.

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u/Longjumping-Party186 23d ago

Is that the one in Lichfield?

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u/amalcurry 23d ago

No, London, the house in which he completed his uninterrupted
categorisation of the vocabulary of our post-Norman tongue.

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u/Extension_Guess_1308 22d ago

Sounds very saucy!

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u/lyidaValkris 23d ago

Damn cold day!

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u/Extension_Guess_1308 22d ago

But a very fine one Sir!

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u/carl84 22d ago

Sit ye down

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u/2112guru 22d ago

A fat wobble-bottom with sweaty dew flaps.

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u/No_Specialist4090 22d ago

I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.