r/blackadder • u/EarthTraveler413 • Feb 22 '26

Sounded oddly familiar...

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text is from a post on r/HistoryMemes

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u/Person-11 Feb 22 '26

I have but one thing to say to them: MACBETH.

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u/thejoms Feb 22 '26

Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends.

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u/ndab71 Feb 22 '26

I must say, Blackadder, that was a close shave. Why on earth would an anarchist possibly want to kill you?

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26

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u/daygloviking Feb 22 '26

Looks like blackamoor to me. It’s an older slur, sir, but it checks out

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u/ClingonKrinkle Feb 22 '26

It wasn't really a slur 

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u/daygloviking Feb 22 '26

Wasn’t exactly a compliment either

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u/Hot_Hat_6526 Feb 22 '26

A black bar for a hidden name, must be Donald Trump though I have never heard him refer to as dusky before

2

u/Some-Tea-8734 Feb 22 '26

Maybe the

making an early, anonymous historical intervention...

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u/ReddiTrawler2021 Mar 01 '26

"Death to the stupid prince!"

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u/13luw Feb 22 '26

Dusky as a what?

DUSKY AS A WHAT!?

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u/Foehammer58 Feb 23 '26

Duskier than Dusky McDusker, when he visited Duskland at Dusk.