Basil

Basil I the Roman Emperor.

Basil could mean a number of things:

• Basil I (pictured), a master of horse-wrestling and patrimonial ambiguity who ruled the Byzantine Empire from 867 to 886.
• Basil Brush, a popular British celebrity and a lover of tweed and of the less-fortunate.
• Basil Fawlty, the owner and manager of the Fawlty Towers — you know, the ones the Muslims bombed, that time.
• Basil Hallward, a character who figures into the plot of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Basil is also a spice in cooking, popular among chefs before they figure out that oregano gets it done in smaller doses. As you can see by the red, if you were to write an Uncyclopedia article on that, this page would link right to it and someone might read it.

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