Blackadder Gisella Moretti The Holle 40 -

“Worse. A radish at least knows when to stay in the ground. Baldrick, what do you know about the Holle 40?”

“Your sarcasm is a rusty bayonet—dull and ineffective. The Holle 40 was developed by my uncle, Professor Moretti, in a secret lab under Vesuvius. It uses concentrated geothermal resonance to… pfft .” (She mimes something vanishing.)

“Wonderful. So we have a lunatic Italian weapon that turns tanks into paperweights, a batman who understands physics by way of stew, and the Germans are 400 yards away preparing a massive offensive. What’s the plan?” blackadder gisella moretti the holle 40

The Holle 40 Fiasco

“It is in General Melchett’s monocle.” “Worse

“We fire it at dawn. But there is a problem.”

“Of course there is. Let me guess—it requires the blood of a virgin, a full moon, and a signed permission slip from the Archbishop of Canterbury?” The Holle 40 was developed by my uncle,

“The frame is made from melted-down Roman gold alloyed with tungsten. My uncle sold it to Melchett’s father at a Turin auction in 1908. The man has been wearing the final component of a superweapon over his eye for nine years.”