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Blackadder: Have you ever been to Wales, Baldrick?
Baldrick: No — but I've often thought I'd like to.
Blackadder: Well, don't. It's a ghastly place. Huge gangs of tough, sinewy men roam the valleys, terrifying people with their close-harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place name! Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick; you'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.
- Blackadder the Third

We're in Cardiff! London doesn't care. The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice - oh! I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native.
Blon the Slitheen, Doctor Who, "Boom Town"

You mean Wales is separate? It's like the British equivalent of New Jersey!

In 1995 there was a series called Cyber Wales. [...] So it's a show explaining the internet to people in Wales in the mid-nineties. What's the first thing you see in the title sequence? That's right, a sheep. The title sequence of this show is genuinely a field of sheep, followed by footage of coal miners. You know, the other type of Welsh person.
Garreth Gwynn,The Now Show

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