chickenfeet

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The Rules:


1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.

2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.

3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.

4. This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.





From Blackadder Back and Forth where Blackadder unfortunately changes the course of history by landing his time machine on top of Wellington just as he is about to expound his cunning plan. The dialogue associated with the group of French officers goes something like:

Napoleon: But the English call us woopsies and big girls' blouses

Staff Officer: But your majesty, we are woopsies and big girls' blouses. By the way I like your hat.

Napoleon: I think it works.

Used for posts, mostly, about the French.



As opposed to "Wrong but Romantic". Sellars and Yateman's immortal characterisation of the two sides in the Civil War.



The Spanish Armadillo which as, again Sellars and Yateman inform us, attempted to invade England in 1588 but was prevented when Drake singed the king of Spain's beard. Used mostly for WTF? posts.



Colonel Widmerpool somewhere in England. One of Mark Boxer's sketches used on the cover of Anthony Powell's The Military Philosophers in the Fontana paperback series of Dance. Used mostly for bureaucracy related posts.



Here I reveal my antiquity. This is a Steve Bell cartoon from the Falklands War. This was so long ago that Bell was still funny. It shows the famous subversive penguin who returned disillusioned from the Falklands to terrorize the Thatcher government before selling out and making his fortune in the dead dog market. Used for many purposes.