International Blackadder Status Day – March 15th

Did you know that March 15th is International Blackadder Status Day? Post a great Blackadder quotes as your profile status on March 15th!

Well, cover me with eggs and flour and bake me for 14 minutes – March 15th is International Blackadder Status Day!

We’re not sure who started it or when, but clearly this has to be the most important Blackadder event in your calendar.

The theme is pretty simple – Just pick one of your favourite quotes from Blackadder, and make it your Facebook status for the day.

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Blackadder Quotes for International Blackadder Status Day

Here’s a few good ones to consider using:

“As cunning as a fox who’s just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?”


“He’s madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year’s Mr Madman competition.”


“Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.”


“Percy, far from being a fit consort for a prince of the realm, you would bore the leggings off a village idiot.”


“Field Marshal Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin.”


Prince George played by Hugh Laurie in Blackadder

“And which Pitt would this be? Pitt the Toddler? Pitt the Embryo? Pitt the Glint in the Milkman’s Eye?”


“Your brain is so minute Baldrick, that if a hungry cannibal cracked your head open, there wouldn’t be enough to cover a small water biscuit.”


“Give the likes of Baldrick the vote and we’ll be back to cavorting druids, death by stoning and dung for dinner.”


“There hasn’t been a war run this badly since Olaf the hairy, King of all the Vikings, ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside.”


“The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn’t he, Percy?”


“Oh Edmund. I do love it when you get cross. Sometimes I think about having you executed, just to see the expression on your face.”


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“They do say, Mrs M, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are, of course, wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork into your head.”


Fatal error Blackadder

Blackadder Insults, Comebacks, and One Liners

“Am I pleased to see you or did I just put a canoe in my pocket?!”


“So let’s recap. If I admit that I am in love – sorry, head over heels in love with Satan and all his little wizards – then you will remove my testicles with a blunt instrument resembling some kind of gardening tool and roast them over a large fire. Whereas if I don’t admit that I’m in love with Satan and all his little wizards, you will hold me upside down in a vat of warm marmalade…AND remove my testicles with a blunt… oh I see.”


“I lost closer friends than ‘darling Georgie’ the last time I was deloused.”


“The path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the Devil’s own satanic herd.”


“Baldrick, I want you to take this and go out and buy a turkey so large, you’d think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus.”


“Leave me alone, Baldrick. If I wanted to talk to a vegetable, I would have bought one at the market.”


“I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a concrete elephant.”


General Melchet Quote from Blackadder Major Star

“Ah. Would this brilliant plan involve us climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy?”


“Baldrick, your head is as empty as a eunach’s underpants.”


“Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words ‘I have a cunning plan’ marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?”


“Baldrick, you wouldn’t recognise a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsicord singing ‘subtle plans are here again’.”


And you can find more great quotes from Blackadder here:

How to update your Facebook status

Not sure how to update your facebook status? Follow these instructions:

  1. Click in the What’s on Your Mind field of the Share box.
  2. This step expands the Share box.
  3. Type your comment/thought/status.
  4. Click Feelings/Activities/Watching
  5. Select Blackadder Quotes
  6. Click Post

Bravo!!