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Baldrick: I have a cunning plan, sir.
Prince George: Hurrah! Well, that's that, then.
Black Adder: I wouldn't get overexcited, sir. I have a horrid suspicion that Baldrick's plan will be the stupidest thing we've heard since Lord Nelson's famous signal at the Battle of the Nile: "England knows Lady Hamilton's a virgin. Poke my eye out and cut off my arm if I'm wrong."
George: Great! Let's hear it, then.
Baldrick: It's brilliant. You take the string -- that's still not completely burnt -- you scrape off the soot, and you shove the pages in again.
Black Adder: Which pages?
Baldrick: Well, not the same ones, of course.
Black Adder: Yes, I think I'm on the point of spotting the flaw in this plan, but do go on. Which pages are they?
Baldrick: Well, this is the brilliant bit: You write some new ones.
Black Adder: ...some new ones. You mean rewrite the Dictionary. I sit down tonight and rewrite the Dictionary that took Dr. Johnson ten years.
Baldrick: Yup.
Black Adder: Baldrick, that is by far and away, and without a shadow of doubt, the worst and most comtemptible plan in the history of the universe. On the other hand, I hear the sound of disembowelling cutlasses being sharpened, and it's the only plan we've got, so if you will excuse me, gentlemen...
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