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  • *[[Blackadder, Scottish Borders]], a Scottish village *[[Blackadder Water]], a river in the Scottish Borders
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  • | portrayer = [[w:Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]] ...by [[w:David Renwick|David Renwick]] and portrayed by [[w:Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]]. The character epitomised the archetypal grumpy old
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  • '''Private James Frazer''' is a fictional [[British Home Guard|Home Guard]] platoon member and undertaker, first port ...and is a dour, trouble-stirring, exaggerating, wild-eyed [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[undertaker]]<ref name=webber75>Webber, Perry, Croft, p. 75</ref> (forme
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  • | nationality = Scottish '''The Krankies''' are a Scottish comedy duo who enjoyed success as a [[cabaret]] act in the 1970s and on tel
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  • '''Mr Eric Praline''' is a fictional character from the television show ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', pl ...ncredulous tone and exaggerated, somewhat high-pitched English accent with Scottish elements. Ross describes Praline's character as "slightly creepy", with a "
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  • ...mpo''' was a [[folk music|folk singer]] character, played by the [[English people|English]] [[comedian|comedian]] and [[actor|actor]] [[Kenneth Williams]], o *"''The Ballad of the Royal Scottish Pretender (Posselwaite Lament)''"
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  • ...tober 2018 her debut novel, "Josephine: An Open Book" was published. It is fictional but partly based on her own experiences.{{cn|date=June 2021}} ...et fellow actor [[Kenneth More]] on the set of ''[[Some People (film)|Some People]]'' in [[Bristol]] in 1962. After starting an affair, More divorced his wif
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  • '''Private Joe Walker''' is a fictional [[black market|black market]] [[spiv|spiv]] (or Wholesales Supplier, as he ...upplies" for members of the rival Eastgate platoon and various influential people, military or civilian; at one point, he offers to provide "a couple of bott
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  • '''Edmund Blackadder''' is the single name given to a collection of [[fictional characters]] who appear in the [[BBC]] mock-historical comedy series ''[[Bl ...restige and fortune. Blackadder is also usually one of the few intelligent people present at any given time and is usually surrounded by incompetent, slow-wi
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  • ...ctor. Born in [[Chester]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.surreylife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/comedian-russ-abbot-on-switching-to-the-madhouse-the-w ...uring characters named [[Basildon Bond]] and Miss Funnyfanny (based on the fictional MI6 spy duo James Bond and [[Miss Moneypenny]]).<ref>{{cite book |last=Hews
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  • ...he [[Permanent Secretary]] for the Department of Administrative Affairs (a fictional department of the [[British government]]). In the last episode of ''Yes Min ...,000,000 worth of military installations due to a lack of understanding of Scottish law). In 1964, he was brought into the newly formed Department of Administr
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  • ...e to the Galaxy]]'' and is [[Mornington Crescent (game)#Origins|one of the people credited]] with creating the bizarre panel game [[Mornington Crescent (game ...ntially played a fictional version of himself from the first series with a fictional version of writer [[Douglas Adams]].
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  • ...or |network=[[Dave (TV channel)|Dave]] |date=10 April 2009 }}</ref>}} is a fictional character from the British [[science fiction]] [[situation comedy]] ''[[Red ==Fictional history==
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  • ...lklands War]] when a small British colony is invaded by its neighbour, the fictional country of Maguadora, whose dictator General Mosquera is played by [[Herber ...m from nuclear bombs, and plans to reduce unemployment by pushing employed people off of cliffs, creating new jobs. Despite the fact he is clearly insane, th
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  • {{short description|Fictional character in Red Dwarf}} '''Kryten''' is a [[w:fictional character|fictional character]] in the British [[w:science fiction|science fiction]] [[w:situat
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  • ...g = [[Bernard Cribbins|Bernard Cribbins]]<br />[[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]]<br />[[Angus Barnett]]<br />Vivienne Martin ...on]] and starring [[Bernard Cribbins|Bernard Cribbins]], [[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]], [[Angus Barnett]] and Vivienne Martin. It was writ
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  • ...ker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional [[HM Prison|HMP]] Slade in [[Cumberland]]. ...abuse when he first arrived at Slade Prison. Fletcher, in reference to his Scottish upbringing, frequently calls him "Jock". Upon arrival, he was an angry youn
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  • ...r]]''.<ref name="bfi.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efa5d96|title=Glynn Edwards|publisher=British Film Institute|access-d ...|canal boat]] converted into a [[houseboat]], named "Winchester" after the fictional private members' bar that he had run in the ''Minder'' television series, w
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  • ...h maths can you do? Do you know any history? What is the point in training people to do things that none of us can do? The system seems designed to qualify y <blockquote>Staffrooms are funny places, full of articulate, mad people. They have a tremendous sense of black humour, but there's a layer of dust
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  • ...967 film)|The Jungle Book]]'' (1967), the suave crimefighter [[The Falcon (fictional character)|The Falcon]] during the 1940s (a role eventually bequeathed to h ...who was born in Saint Petersburg, of mostly German, but also Estonian and Scottish (Sanders wrote of his mother's descent from "the Thomas Clayhills of Dundee
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