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Yes, the are orders, yes they are to go over the top, but they are addressed to one CAT-PAIN BLACK-UDDER.
— Blackadder · 1983
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker accepts that orders exist but points to a distorted version of the intended recipient's name. One reading is an attempt to evade the instruction through an absurd technicality. The humour turns the mangled address into a possible excuse for treating a serious order as somebody else's.
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