![]() Lord Melchett’s meaning here could be substituted with “and damn me if.” But the pattern under examination is a speech act designed to work in two parts: 1) setting the scene, and 2) finishing with a paraprosdokian to elicit in the listener the same surprise or astonishment as experienced by the speaker. I say you’re a weedy pigeon, Blackadder, and you can call me Susan if it isn’t so.Ī close reading, however, puts paid to the idea. You twist and turn like a twisty turny thing. It has been suggested that this may not be a pattern unique to the American South, as an episode of Blackadder contains the following line: In Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit, Author Allan Zullo offers up more than 200 vernacular verses presented in themes, such as: Admitting Youre Wrong -The easiest way to eat crow is while its still warm, cause the colder it gets the harder it is to swallow.
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