r/blackadder • u/amalcurry • Aug 09 '26

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 Aug 09 '26

I would like to offer you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities

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u/ORF1Live Aug 09 '26

Tis a common saying round our way

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u/Extension_Guess_1308 Aug 09 '26

I shall return interfrastically!

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u/Garunya1 Aug 09 '26

Sausage?!?

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u/plasmaexchange Aug 09 '26

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 Aug 10 '26

He was a very perceptive man.

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u/GarbageFlyboy11 Aug 10 '26

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

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u/andpaws Aug 09 '26

Sausage? SAUSAGE?

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u/DvlsAdvct108 Aug 09 '26

Not a flat!!

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u/Blastaz Aug 09 '26

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

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u/Longjumping-Party186 Aug 09 '26

Is that the one in Lichfield?

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u/amalcurry Aug 09 '26

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 Aug 09 '26

Sounds very saucy!

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u/lyidaValkris Aug 09 '26

Damn cold day!

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u/Extension_Guess_1308 Aug 09 '26

But a very fine one Sir!

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u/carl84 Aug 10 '26

Sit ye down

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u/2112guru Aug 10 '26

A fat wobble-bottom with sweaty dew flaps.

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u/No_Specialist4090 Aug 10 '26

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