What is "bibble"?

Bibble is a nonsense word.

I like to say bibble over and over again outside of any context, like this: bibble, bibble, bibble.

This handy chart is good for thinking about what bibble means, but you probably won't get it. Think of this as an incantation that invokes the four fundamental elements of thought and language: bibble, fire, love, and death:

Bibble is the love of death on fire.
Bibble is the love of the fire of death.
Bibble is the death of the love of fire.
Bibble is the death of the fire of love.
Bibble is the fire of love of death.
Bibble is the fire of the death of love.

Love of bibble is death on fire.
Love of bibble is the fire of death.
Death of bibble is the love of fire.
Death of bibble is the fire of love.
Fire of bibble is the love of death.
Fire of bibble is the death of love.

Love of death is bibble on fire.
Love on fire is bibble death.
Death is the love of bibble on fire.
Death is the fire of bibble in love.
Fire of love is bibble in death.
Fire of death is bibble in love.

Love of death on fire is bibble.
Love on fire of death is bibble.
Death of love on fire is bibble.
Death on fire is love of bibble.
Fire of love of death is bibble.
Fire of death of love is bibble.

I told you it was a nonsense word. Now do you "understand"?

In May of 1996 I received a Message from God:

Apparently my "understanding" of the word "bibble" is terribly flawed:

From: life the universe and everything <"god"@what.ever.com>
From "god"@what.ever.com  Fri May 31 06:44:54 1996
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:45:12 +1000
To: mollusk@bibble.org
Subject: Incrorrectnes of bibble

You are wrong. That's all there is to it.
Bibble is from the British TV series "BlackAdder"
So shut up.

Humility escapes me. I will stand by my own perceptions of what "bibble" is, relative points of view and all that rot. But I am curious if anyone can tell me what Black Adder episode or episodes make use of "bibble". This is the first I've heard of this rogue variant.

Update: The source revealed:

  http://blackadder.eng.monash.edu.au/~pat/scripts/blackadder_series.2
wherein the Blackadder bibble is revealed:

  And in Genoa, 'tis now the fashion to pin a live frog to the
  shoulder-braid, stand on a bucket, and go 'Bibble' at passers-by.

THIS IS SILLY

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