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BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .

02 Apr 05 - 01:25 PM (#1450153)
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From: Peace

Just thought I'd mention.


02 Apr 05 - 01:27 PM (#1450157)
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From: gnu

Ah, I gnu him well.


02 Apr 05 - 01:29 PM (#1450160)
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From: Peace

Hamlet, is that YOU?


02 Apr 05 - 01:32 PM (#1450164)
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From: gnu

Alas, no. Although, I've been called a ham.


02 Apr 05 - 01:34 PM (#1450166)
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From: Amos

I think this is an indirect function of the Horatio squared.

A


02 Apr 05 - 01:47 PM (#1450181)
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From: gnu

You Padua the figures, Amos.


02 Apr 05 - 01:49 PM (#1450184)
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From: Peace

Shakespeare jokes HERE.


02 Apr 05 - 02:18 PM (#1450210)
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From: gnu

Such jokes are as common as the gentle rain. Come, let us bend our years. Hairy Caesar, braze him. Let me have women about me who are plumpers, for I have journeyed far upon the ethernet in my Porshe, and have BBQ'd a pound of flesh for thine repast... pass to me another Bud.

Escher is out of his dimension. Dial 119!


02 Apr 05 - 02:21 PM (#1450214)
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From: Peace

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore farteth thou, Romeo?


02 Apr 05 - 02:24 PM (#1450218)
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From: gnu

Hey Bitch, hot air rises. Just wait a minute, will ya!! Women!!


02 Apr 05 - 02:27 PM (#1450221)
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From: Amos

Gnu:

You are always offering something gnu! Shall I compare thee to a summer beer? Though art more bubbly by far!

Thanks for the grins.

A


02 Apr 05 - 02:29 PM (#1450223)
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From: Peace

When in disgrace with Fortune Magazine,
I all alone reread my outcast state,
And reach for jugs of stuff they call Visine,
And--

am I onto something here ya think?


02 Apr 05 - 02:30 PM (#1450227)
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From: gnu

BTW. Have you tried the Clarke's with maple slyrpup? Tastes great and smells sweet. Don't know how it lights up. Never tried that, even with Coop with molasses and pork... I am a rather reserved gentleman.


02 Apr 05 - 02:32 PM (#1450229)
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From: gnu

YES. Keep the juices flowing... eeewwww. Keep writing.


02 Apr 05 - 02:41 PM (#1450235)
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From: Peace

The Times they are a'Changin'.


02 Apr 05 - 02:42 PM (#1450237)
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From: Peace

I wasa thinking of calling it "Sonnet Twenty, Nein?


02 Apr 05 - 02:55 PM (#1450243)
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From: Peace

Teenaged boys are gonna love THIS one:

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."


02 Apr 05 - 02:55 PM (#1450245)
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From: gnu

HEYMOS!!! Don't honour me. Offer. Honour, offer, honour, offer... Don't mind me. I am on a drunk. The last hurrah for a while, a long while. I've got a few things to get sorted out and this is my way of beginning the end of the process. Told all the relatives to stay away and I'm just living the life of Riley... beer, smokes, steaks, sports on the TV, blasting tunes on the stereo, and best of all... Mudcat chat with some of the most knowledgible, witty and intelligent people I have ever known. Just wish the Fairies would stop buzzing around, fucking annoying little cowardly gits. I'd like to meet some of... nevermind.

Let's just say, whatever I get up to or into over the next twenty four is not gnu's fault. I've got that fellah locked up until Monday. The Wildebeeste is gonna get out and have some fun. Then, it's all up to modern science and, of course, the Big Guy in the sky. I just hope he's got a sense of humour. And if he don't, fuck him. I like a joke. You like a joke? I like a joke.

Come now. Let us repair to a place in which we can repair.

I come to tell Caesar a few jokes. What? You seize her, you brought her.


02 Apr 05 - 02:59 PM (#1450249)
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From: Peace

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."

I dare not post a picture of the above.


02 Apr 05 - 03:01 PM (#1450250)
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From: gnu

Where the fuck do you get all the time? Or are you one of those who can read two pages at a glance?


02 Apr 05 - 03:06 PM (#1450254)
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From: Peace

LOL

Gnu, you just gave me my belly laugh for the day. Thank you.


02 Apr 05 - 03:07 PM (#1450255)
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From: Amos

Darling buds, indeed!! LOL!! Brucie trawls Shakespeare as part of his livelihood teaching, I suspect.

Else such familiarity would be a sin, in truth,
Guilty as a pool shark lad is of wasted youth.
Who turns his face when learning's spirit calls,
And spends hyse houres with pocket and with balles.


A


02 Apr 05 - 03:07 PM (#1450256)
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From: Peace

Now I have tears in my eyes, ya bugger. LOLOL

That's tears rhymes with beers not tears rhymes with bears.


02 Apr 05 - 03:09 PM (#1450258)
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From: MBSLynne

Enter a sewer with divers..............


02 Apr 05 - 03:14 PM (#1450262)
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From: Peace

KING HENRY V: When we have match'd our rackets to these balls . . . .


02 Apr 05 - 03:17 PM (#1450264)
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From: gnu

Diverticulosis? You don't have to enter a sewer to get into shit.


02 Apr 05 - 03:19 PM (#1450265)
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From: Peace

Sometimes her levelled eyes their carriage ride
As they did batt'ry to the spheres intend;
Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
To th'orbed earth; sometimes they do extend
Their view right on; anon their gazes lend
To every place at once, and nowhere fixed,
The mind and sight distractedly commixed.


02 Apr 05 - 03:19 PM (#1450266)
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From: gnu

So that's why I like old Shaky so much! He was a squash player too! LET!


02 Apr 05 - 03:29 PM (#1450270)
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From: el_punkoid_nouveau

Is this the face that launched a thousand ships...









Oh Bugger! Wrong Elizabethan playwright!


02 Apr 05 - 03:51 PM (#1450285)
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From: Liz the Squeak

It's all by Bacon anyway!!

LTS


02 Apr 05 - 03:57 PM (#1450290)
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From: Peace

Here's the face . . . .


02 Apr 05 - 03:58 PM (#1450292)
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From: Peace

OK, some ships, anyway.


02 Apr 05 - 04:09 PM (#1450299)
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From: Peace

Here she is . . . .


02 Apr 05 - 04:20 PM (#1450305)
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From: gnu

I want my Fuckin Islands back!!!


02 Apr 05 - 04:26 PM (#1450311)
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From: Peace

Gnu,

You are the first person to say that. It's not on Google anywhere. I am impressed. You are onna roll, muh man.


02 Apr 05 - 04:31 PM (#1450315)
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From: Peace

Man, you are all OVER the 'net.


02 Apr 05 - 04:43 PM (#1450322)
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From: gnu

Silent dawn in the Falklands... a lone Piper stands and plays, high above the city. Ten thousand Argentine soldiers anticipate the attack of the English. The Piper fades... aghast, the Agentines watch a lone, Kilted RSM, rise from a foxhole within range. He draws his sword, cries the cry, points his sword skyward and his pistol at the enemy, and runs toward them, alone, firing his pistol. An Argentine soldier slays the RSM with a single round. He falls silent... as the dawn.

One minute of silence. The Piper plays. The Argentines surrender and, in single file, ten thousand long, place their guns in a huge pile, under the watch of a British Corporal... Lance, acting, unpaid.

Victoria Cross. Three were earned in the Falklands. All as deserved.


02 Apr 05 - 04:56 PM (#1450327)
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From: gnu

Don't know why I posted that. Just made a hell of an impression on me when I was told the story, and it's never left me since. I cry every time I think of it. More beer. It's Saturday NIGHT!!!


02 Apr 05 - 04:59 PM (#1450330)
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From: Peace

There are a few stories that do the same to me, buddy. Been there, done that and know what you mean.


02 Apr 05 - 05:54 PM (#1450363)
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From: gnu

Oh! Did I kill the thread? Like no one has read old Shaky. Come on now, where are the Bards ?

Queen Anorexia? Is it ye I glimpse before me? Or just your spectre, floating in the dusk of my mind? as if weightless?


02 Apr 05 - 07:25 PM (#1450464)
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From: gnu

Oh well, there it is. Nobody wants to play... oh come on. That's a great pun. In the sacred and immortal words of David Mary, Canuck comic of great fame, "Jesus Christ! What do I have to do to impress you people? C'mon, give a little bit."


02 Apr 05 - 07:30 PM (#1450470)
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From: Peace

The ultimate "Hamlet".


02 Apr 05 - 09:12 PM (#1450545)
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From: gnu

Oh well... I suppose it's time to sleep, perchance to dream.... of a Café where someone can banter and... fuck it, I'm off to Oggieland... ahh, there's the chub...


02 Apr 05 - 09:22 PM (#1450548)
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From: Rapparee

And I, I took the other one, and that is not only the wrong bard, but th wrong century and several miles to the West'ard.


02 Apr 05 - 09:31 PM (#1450552)
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From: Amos

I have just returned from viewing Lear at the San Diego Repertory Theatre with John Woodward in the title role. A better Lear I have never seen; over the span of 400 years since the play was written, I could still tremble at the passion and horror of it.

Lear himself was impeccable, and because he knew every word he was using he sounded so persuasive that the leap of tongues from 21st Century American to 17th Ce. English was effortless. The moral and the lessons stay true as long as their are leaders who pervert the purposes of their positions for their own agenda.

A


03 Apr 05 - 05:45 AM (#1450681)
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From: The Fooles Troupe

From The Virtual Fooles Troupe

Babbel -
He thinks he's the cleverest one!
Nobody else does.
Various Lord's Comment: He's got a slick tongue!
Various Lady's Comment: Yes! (slow smile)
Note: Not to be trusted alone with the money!
Wants to be Deputy Reeve.
Ejected from workshop tryout as Romeo in "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" through a printer's devil in a stage direction.
It should have read "Enter Ethel upstage" (which is bad enough!) but his script clearly said "Enter Ethel from the rear".



Quibbel -
"Yes, But...."
Apprentice Fool in Training.
Unfortunately often right.
His sister is called Cassandra, OK?
Wary of Babbel since his workshop tryout for Ethel.
Fortunately The Admiral's Men returned from Tour in the nick of time...


03 Apr 05 - 03:07 PM (#1450972)
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From: gnu

Puck drank Sprite. (I wish I had.)


03 Apr 05 - 03:34 PM (#1451006)
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From: Peace

Good one. Yer wit's are about you.


03 Apr 05 - 03:50 PM (#1451031)
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From: gnu

Where? Where?


04 Apr 05 - 09:18 AM (#1451622)
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From: Rapparee

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.


05 Apr 05 - 07:14 AM (#1452458)
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From: Flash Company

If perchance you meet a girl,
And you want to please her,
Don't be shy,
Give it a try,
Oh, Julius, sieze her!

Think thats about all.

FC


05 Apr 05 - 09:54 AM (#1452564)
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From: Amos

Ah, Mercutio, fear not -- I have the way of it. Have some of this underarm disinfectant and you shall be right as old scripture, no righter; yet it shall right you, and serve you so right well.

A


05 Apr 05 - 11:43 AM (#1452667)
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From: Rapparee

You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort,        
As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir:        
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,        
As I foretold you, were all spirits and        
Are melted into air, into thin air:        
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,        
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,        
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,        
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve        
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,        
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff        
As dreams are made on, and our little life        
Is rounded with a sleep.


05 Apr 05 - 12:35 PM (#1452720)
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From: Metchosin

What sound through yonder window breaks
It is a roar so great Le Petomane did swoon
Arise foul smell as Spaw the envious did moon
Those already sick and pale in disbelief
That low, his fart is far more foul than he.


05 Apr 05 - 12:51 PM (#1452742)
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From: Azizi

I don't know bones about Yorick.

But Yorick knows all about bones.

Meet Yorick


05 Apr 05 - 01:47 PM (#1452796)
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From: Amos

Rapaire:

What richness in tone, and dexterity of the fingers, has so writ! No more,
Than that dexterity which has whole-cloth lifted it.
But let it be, the words are of such fine cloth
As lifting shall leave them without hole, though wholly lifted.
And though, good fellow, dexterous of lift
I prithee, go and, though thy heart be heavy,
Do thou some heavy lifting, tho't' be strange
To your accustom, simply for the change!

A


05 Apr 05 - 01:49 PM (#1452800)
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From: Rapparee

Yorick, alas! how soon thou art forgotten and unknown!

First Clown. Here's a skull now; this skull hath lain you i' the earth three-and-twenty years.        
Ham. Whose was it?        
First Clo. A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was?        
Ham. Nay, I know not.         76
First Clo. A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.        
Ham. This!        
First Clo. E'en that.        
Ham. Let me see.—[Takes the skull.]—Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?


05 Apr 05 - 02:07 PM (#1452824)
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From: Metchosin

Hark! the raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the entrance of wealthy tourists
Under the of spell of gnu's encampment
Come ye spirits that tend on mortal thoughts,
Oversexed nymphs will gambol there and tho'the direst cruelty
That only tea will pass their fair lips to cause remorse
Let the compuctious visitings of nature
Enhance his swell purpose
And keep peace between the effect and it.


05 Apr 05 - 02:10 PM (#1452833)
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From: Amos

Ever the lifter of the heavy, and never a heavy lifter, Rapaire?
Go to! Th'art a many-meated whoreson and a baggage.
Go to, and find it in thee to fling some new designs
Upon the weary world, thereby profiting it much
If thyself but little. Go to! Fie on thee for a gadfly,
And a lazy lifter.

A


05 Apr 05 - 02:13 PM (#1452839)
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From: Amos

Metchosin:

Thou hast bravely write; wouds't thou would tell,
An' bold gnus purpose swell,
How he would find the fit of it
And of his news discharge it. Mum's the word
That lets the dexterous hand best free the bird
Of such irksome swellings!
No gnus, good gnus? Oh, shame
For it would prosper much, in oft retelling!


05 Apr 05 - 02:25 PM (#1452849)
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From: Metchosin

For by his hand alone
Truth will issue forth and it will come
Of his fair camp, that gnu wouldst only
Rise to pour the warming tea


05 Apr 05 - 02:30 PM (#1452856)
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From: Peace

Fari is foul and foul is fair

but


Fare is fowl and fowl is fare



Goodnight sweet Prince.


05 Apr 05 - 03:52 PM (#1452927)
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From: gnu

Is that from Purple Rain?


05 Apr 05 - 04:07 PM (#1452939)
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From: Amos

You guys are so understated, it cracks me up!!! LOL! No, not Purple, in sooth, though royal to many! And of such a royal rain are kingdoms made and lost!! For after the rain, falling where it wist, comes often a swelling such as to populate the ranks of nobles!


A


05 Apr 05 - 04:43 PM (#1452988)
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From: gnu

Oh, Purple Reign.


05 Apr 05 - 04:46 PM (#1452993)
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From: Azizi

Station Break:
"Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft....
???!!!
So Hamlet outed himself, eh?

Oh well it's all good.

And BTW, I'm impressed with the creativity found on this thread.
Not that I'm surprised..

[And if it appears that I don't know beans about Hamlet, you got it right on the first try].

My bad.

Okay, on with the show!!


05 Apr 05 - 04:49 PM (#1452994)
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From: Peace

Purple reins? Will it clash with a pinto?


05 Apr 05 - 05:10 PM (#1453005)
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From: gnu

Outed? Read on. Much of the literature of the era, and previous, and subsequently, needed no "outings", until Elizabethan times. Sexuality, even truly aberrant, in literature, was accepted because literature was an adult venue.

Perhaps the "education of the masses", and, more importantly, the children of the masses, led to a hushing of sexuality, in any form,   indeed, even in the purest, which we now dub "Elizabethan".

Now, don' go quote'n me on lit and histry... I dunno squat. I'm just a good ole boy from Kent County. So, the way I see it is, them there fellahs 'd fuck a snake if they could get enough gravel in ther hands. And they wear tights an all, so, hell, you know. Minds me a that there Prancey fellah, what with all them fancy getups an women a lythin n all an starin at the camera all randy and... scuse me.


05 Apr 05 - 05:28 PM (#1453011)
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From: gnu

I ain't dissin Prince... he is a true musician and a musical genius of extraordinary talent.


05 Apr 05 - 05:29 PM (#1453012)
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From: Rapparee

Ah, then! As the actor says, whilst out-Heroding Herod:

Who I sir? I am one that loues an inch of raw
Mutton betterthen an ell of fride stock-fish, and the first
letter of my name beginnes with leachery.


05 Apr 05 - 05:41 PM (#1453018)
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From: gnu

Eeeewwww. And I haven't got clue what that means.


05 Apr 05 - 06:00 PM (#1453034)
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From: Amos

He claims he is a meat-eater before he'll look cropss-eyed at fried fish. Somehting to do with Churches perhaps...

A


05 Apr 05 - 06:00 PM (#1453035)
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From: Peace

Sometimes I wonder if Christopher did. For 'tis a poor end for a lovely sheep. Hehehe.


05 Apr 05 - 06:45 PM (#1453075)
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From: Azizi

I interrupt the poetic post to interject this bit of commentary:

gnu,

This a traditional Rhythm & Blues saying that goes like this:
"It's your thing. Do what you want to do. I can't tell you who to sock
it to."

That's my philosophy as long as we're talking about adults who are both agreeable to getting it on..

So bully for Hamlet and Yorick or whomever.

But "whatever" is a whole 'nother story.

And BTW: I liked Purple Reign-um sorry-Purple Rain, even though the story Prince dramatized about his background was bogus....

Just like the Hamlet story, but I doubt if that newer tale will be around as long as the older..

Poor Prince..but he still will go down in history...way down.


05 Apr 05 - 07:02 PM (#1453093)
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From: gnu

Cool. And I haven't got clue what that means.


05 Apr 05 - 07:11 PM (#1453102)
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From: gnu

Now... as for Prince going "way down" in history. My goodness gracious... have you knowledge of his full body of works? The man is nothing short (no pun intended) of a musical genius, a prolific artist of a music genre, although not mine and, obviously, not yours. Not to mention he's got a few bucks in the bank - he didn't make the big ones without some talent. Please now. Surely some respect is due, even if you disagree with the marketing or the genre.


05 Apr 05 - 07:51 PM (#1453134)
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From: Azizi

gnu,

Words have various meanings. Take off one layer and you find another.

And life is more than a bowl of cheeries as I know since I'm living in pitts burgh.

And for whatever reason this song has come to me demanding to be heard:
"I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield
   down down
Down by the riverside.
   way down
Down by the riverside.
I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside.
I'm gonna stu-u-dy war no more.
I ain't gonna study war no more.
I ain't gonna study war no more.
I ain't gonna stu-u-dy war no more.
****

Now I don't have a clue what this has to do with Yorick being out of his skull or with the genuis Prince who I'm down with in one manner of speaking and definitely not in another..

As I said before, to each his own..and let the good times roll right along with the river.


05 Apr 05 - 08:30 PM (#1453158)
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From: gnu

Ah, the river. I shall be enjoined once again with the river ten suns hence. As I understand from my buddys up Kent County, melt is near complete, even amongst the one by ones, and the waters flow deep, cresting ice over dams and frazzling the most obstinate of alders. Those who art stout of heart, able to endure the pain of cold waters against aching joints, willing to douse themselves to the lips, and reap the riches of the cold flowing.... okay, I'm going trout fishing next weekend. And I'm jagged right fer it!


05 Apr 05 - 10:31 PM (#1453236)
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From: Azizi

Ha! A Gypsy just started a thread for the tune Sweat Thames flow softly." I find that ironic.

Oh, for "more rivers. more rivers." or some such saying which speak to my need for more dough to play with...

Not in the sweet bye and bye but right now.

Anyway Gnu, enjoy your trout fishing!

And what ever happened to poor Yorick?

More posts! More posts!


05 Apr 05 - 10:46 PM (#1453245)
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From: Azizi

Correction:

Well actually gypsy started the thread for the song
"Sweet Thames River Flow Softly" .

There's a new African proverb that says "One person's mistake is another person's opportunity".

I bet there's no song YET called "Sweat Thames flow softly",
but someone could write one.

Who is Thames and why is he or she sweating? And what's with that "flow softly" bit? Do I detect folk etymology at play here changin up the ORIGINAL lyrics? Did somebody hear "Thames" when what was sang was "James"? And was the word "flow" actually "tow" or "toe" as in "tip toe"??

And what does ANY of this have to do with Yorick being out of his skull?!

Just a bit of fun.

Thank you Yorick, wherever you may be.


06 Apr 05 - 01:17 AM (#1453309)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: LadyJean

"Was this the face that munched a thousand chips?"


06 Apr 05 - 06:30 AM (#1453430)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Azizi : "And what ever happened to poor Yorick?"

Perhaps our meter has run out.


06 Apr 05 - 07:51 AM (#1453477)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Azizi

What???
Gnu,
Oh no, say it isn't so. I put a lot of coins in the meter...

Oh you mean the poetry meter..

Sorry...

I hope that there'll be alot more poetic posts to this thread..
I can't write like that, but I like to read those posts.

And besides, poor Yorick deserves to see 100 posts..
I know that poor Yorick can't see since he's out of his skull,
but still can't we honor his memory by getting this thread up to at least 100 posts?

I await more musings and offerings to poor Yorick's memory..

Excelsior!!

"Head'em up. Move'em out, Rawhide!!"

I always liked that word 'Excelsior!'. And I have fond memories of watching that wild west television program called 'Rawhide' when I was about two years old {ha! ha!}. So I'm going to act like both of these sayings apply in this situation..

If you stretched the meter, you could say that they do apply.
Of course, technically you can SAY anything on Mudcat, and nobody would be able to HEAR you!

so "Write on! Write on!, my brothers and sisters.

"Power to the People!

"Let it all hang out!'."It's your thing. Do what you wanna do"

etc etc etc.

;O)


06 Apr 05 - 06:53 PM (#1453915)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

I think you make much ado about nothing. But, as you like it.


06 Apr 05 - 07:08 PM (#1453930)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Azizi

That was good, Gnu.

Even I got the names of those Shakespeare plays.


06 Apr 05 - 07:10 PM (#1453932)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Metchosin... how did I miss...

"Hark! the raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the entrance of wealthy tourists
Under the of spell of gnu's encampment
Come ye spirits that tend on mortal thoughts,
Oversexed nymphs will gambol there and tho'the direst cruelty
That only tea will pass their fair lips to cause remorse
Let the compuctious visitings of nature
Enhance his swell purpose
And keep peace between the effect and it."

Ohhhhh BABY!!! Ohhhhh BABY!!! Don'stop!!! Shaky Spear!


06 Apr 05 - 07:14 PM (#1453936)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Metchosin

LOL!


06 Apr 05 - 07:28 PM (#1453956)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Rapparee

Ah, but this thread needs rallying!

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility.
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage.
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect:
Let it pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit
To his full height.


06 Apr 05 - 07:31 PM (#1453960)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Rapparee

And should you rally, then dear friends, I can but say

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers*.
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition.
And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.



* and sisters. All male references shall also be construed to include the female.


06 Apr 05 - 07:31 PM (#1453961)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Aside, offstage : Thanks to all the players who have put up with the Wildebeeste. He is almost back in his cage... almost.


06 Apr 05 - 07:34 PM (#1453964)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Great article.


06 Apr 05 - 07:36 PM (#1453965)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Rap...aire it out! It's a good thang.


06 Apr 05 - 07:39 PM (#1453967)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

I told you he was out of his skull.


06 Apr 05 - 07:40 PM (#1453970)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

"Let me have men about me who are fat." Why can't I find an advert like this in the employment ads?


06 Apr 05 - 07:42 PM (#1453973)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Rapparee

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights.
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.


06 Apr 05 - 07:45 PM (#1453977)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Yeah, he thinks he's the greatest.


06 Apr 05 - 07:47 PM (#1453979)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Well, he IS pretty.


06 Apr 05 - 07:47 PM (#1453980)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

And poetic.


06 Apr 05 - 07:49 PM (#1453983)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Takes about 5 seconds to load:
'nother neat thang to read.


06 Apr 05 - 08:00 PM (#1453995)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Prospero would not sink as low as to quote inaccurately.


06 Apr 05 - 08:03 PM (#1453996)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Gosh, I must now repair to repast. Goodnight and kiss me Kate.


06 Apr 05 - 09:00 PM (#1454022)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Amos

Good find, Brucie...although I must say that the idea of attributing "We have met the enemy and he is US" to Shakespeare strikes me as droll in the extreme, if not ridickleus!!

A


07 Apr 05 - 12:56 AM (#1454123)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

The whole world knows it was from Walt Kelly. Jaysus, eh?


07 Apr 05 - 12:59 AM (#1454124)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Years back I stumbled over a quiz (of sorts) that had aphorisms, quotes, adages, etc., from Proverbs (book in the Bible) and from Shakespeare. Looked very easy at first glance. Sonuvagun. Would take a scholar of both books to ace that test. If I can locate it I will provide a link.


07 Apr 05 - 01:34 AM (#1454141)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Metchosin

I sort of like The Frog myself.


07 Apr 05 - 01:52 AM (#1454148)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Here is A quiz, but not THE quiz.


07 Apr 05 - 02:08 AM (#1454155)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Gotta love it . . . .


07 Apr 05 - 10:32 AM (#1454392)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Amos

You are a fool of links, good sir,
Who seeketh the wide shallows
For all manner of meaning,
A mouthful of vexatious connection,
Loud in multitude, full of GIFs and Quicktime
Linked to everywhere as nowhere in a comic web
And signifying nothing. Let it be,
As well a web fool, full of links
As a duck in chains, all web and link,quacking ill humor
As some here are wont to do! God fare the well in thy hunting
And may the web be kind to thee!

All's Webbed that Ends Webbed, IV, ii
Bonhomie Gonzalez, 1698
Cupertino


07 Apr 05 - 02:10 PM (#1454602)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

So, while football fans lear at the royal wedding, and the Queen remains shy and locked up solid in the castle, snow and sleet are forecast for Saturday. Truly, this discontent shall be over by winter's end.

Oh, I see by the sundial, it's time for a stein of Beck's. Or perhaps, a glass of Napa Valley's finest. Wilst thou join me in a 1962 vintage? A truly nobel year.


07 Apr 05 - 02:32 PM (#1454617)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Amos

Let us give the prize to Nobel vintage
And raise the very glass we prize, not let any other
Unprise us from it. Thus,
We give lip service and more to due reward,
And fill our minds with Nobel contemplation!

Ibid


07 Apr 05 - 02:46 PM (#1454632)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Keriste, I gotta get a life. I am starting to understand you guys.


07 Apr 05 - 02:49 PM (#1454644)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Well, you've ernst it.


07 Apr 05 - 03:00 PM (#1454657)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Donuel

Cleo Pats Ra

Clitoria: Hark Testeclese, may the Gods be jealous. How's it hanging?

Testeclese: What hooded figure from yonder balcony speaks?

Clitoria: Tis I, I beseech you to come inside...


07 Apr 05 - 03:14 PM (#1454674)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Uh oh. This could become tempestuous.


07 Apr 05 - 03:21 PM (#1454680)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Thou art only mark'd for hot vengeance and the rod of heaven.

My Gawd.


07 Apr 05 - 03:31 PM (#1454688)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Dare we step upon that slippery slope? Have we exhausted the Bard's wisdom? Admitted, I have quoted Jack, but what of it? What indeed? Could it be that we, mere mortals might SPAWn new life? new prose? new poetry? new wisdom? Not fuckin likely, but hell, let's have a go, eh!

Queen Anorexia? Is that your shadow I see faintly? Pray, do speak...


07 Apr 05 - 04:07 PM (#1454716)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Rapparee

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;        
Am an attendant lord, one that will do        
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,        
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,        
Deferential, glad to be of use,              
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;        
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;        
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—        
Almost, at times, the Fool.        

I grow old … I grow old …              
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.        

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?        
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.        
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.        

I do not think that they will sing to me.              

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves        
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back        
When the wind blows the water white and black.        

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea        
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown              
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.


07 Apr 05 - 04:11 PM (#1454721)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Amos

Queen A: And I stood sideway thou'd see no shadow at all, good Gnu. And welcome here. It is well known you are good, and well 'tis so, though we do on occasion grow weary with it.

Gnu: Weary, my thinnest of Queens? Pray, stand broader to the light, and you'll be a lighter broad. And tell me, thou royal rail, railing not but speaking without splinter, why you weary grow?

Queen: Why, thou jackanapes, there is no interest in it, as it lends not itself! Neither to humor, nor to alarum, nor yet to tales of wonder, and me thinks to wonder why we entertain at all that which entertaineth not. For well 'tis said, no gnus is good gnus, and th'art good.

Gnu: Nay, good Queen, though I lend not myself, being good, let me go better. I shall give myself to thee the long night through, and thou shalt see new wonders in the name of goodness as will entertain thee right well, I vow.

Queen: And what trade would there be in that, good Gnu? How woulds't thou be repaid for such giving? In kind?

Gnu: As kind as ever a Queen might be, when her crown is taken off and love enters in. Do thee but give yourself in like kind and in liking kindness too, and all will be well, and right.

Queen: Your well may be right, but 'tis too deep for me this evening. But thou cans't easily plumb the depth of it, and thou has the line and the rod.

Gnu: I do madam; the rod waits for use, and the line, why I am trying it now as we speak.

Queen: Thy line is soft -- is't so then with thy rod as well? I fear me an unkindness of the bitterest sort.

Gnu: Nay, nay madame, the kind is like in kindness but unlike in temper -- where the line approacheth most softly, the rod is well traveled as a harder road. An' thee hold only thine own temper thou might well hold the temper of the rod, as well, as any blacksmith can tell you. For there's a kind of kindness will blow the fires hot in any smithy, fixing to put right a pot, a well, or a rod.

Queen: Th'art well spoke, no Gnus and good! Come, let us to my chambers to discover more; but and thou art good, make no news of this night abroad, or I unkindly soon would grow, and seek thy diminishment.

Gnu: Madame, never fear. My diminishment I entrust unto thy hands and my news unto they tongue that it shall come forth only right.

"Queen: Go to, th'art saucy, and I grow saucy in postponement. Come away, come.

(They exit toward the bed chamber stage right).


07 Apr 05 - 04:21 PM (#1454733)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Azizi

"the rod is well traveled as a harder road."

If it's that well traveled, the Queen may end up having gifts from others he met along the way.


07 Apr 05 - 04:40 PM (#1454740)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Aside, offstage, amonsgt the players : I gnu nought what I was getting into, and, I bow to the Master.

Aside, offinternet, amonst the players, quietly, : Amos, you re-define "Fuckin A"-mos. ROTFLMAO!!!


07 Apr 05 - 04:54 PM (#1454754)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

BTW, in response to the first post, Brucie... poor Yorick!


07 Apr 05 - 05:08 PM (#1454761)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: GUEST

Whilst some would contemplate the nobel brew
To chamber charged the smit and rampant gnu

Beset with thick coming fancies of the night
A wildebeast of lust, a heart's delight

But too soon would all her fancies flee?
Hast gnu only come therein to pour the tea?


07 Apr 05 - 05:12 PM (#1454763)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: GUEST,Metchosin

oops, I'm guest 5:08


07 Apr 05 - 06:11 PM (#1454821)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Metchosin : "Hast gnu only come therein to pour the tea?"

Yup, goin' down on ten years now, NNWW.


07 Apr 05 - 06:16 PM (#1454828)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

It's a normal day . . . .


07 Apr 05 - 06:17 PM (#1454831)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Apparently, the shrooms are in bloom out in the West ?


07 Apr 05 - 06:21 PM (#1454835)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Like, uh, I can like think with my eyes closed, mannnnnnnnnn.


07 Apr 05 - 06:23 PM (#1454838)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

I wish I could afford high speed.


07 Apr 05 - 06:26 PM (#1454843)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

NB

The mushroom pictured above IS very toxic. Not stoned taxic; dead toxic.

BM


07 Apr 05 - 06:29 PM (#1454846)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Which is why I assumed you were on high speed.


07 Apr 05 - 07:08 PM (#1454881)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Anyway,

Thank you all for participating in this thread. This is my last post on it.

Brucie


07 Apr 05 - 07:14 PM (#1454888)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Jeanie

Enter the Ladie Jeane of Essex, in haste, gathering her skirts about her:

My Lords, I pray that I arrive betimes
To join your japes and marvel at your rimes.
My Venice journey held me in delay,
"What gnus on the Rialto ?" did you say ?
Here 'tis, and is right apt for this affair:
"Some men there are love not a gaping pig;
Some, that are mad if they behold a cat;
And others, when the bagpipe sings i'the nose
Cannot contain their urine." Thus spake he.
His words had scarcely thundered round the court,
When up I stood and added to his list
Not only bagpipe, but the bodhran drum,
And banjoe that the folke do loudely strum.
"Indeed, 'tis true," quoth Shylock,"and correct.
All three, when played, do have the same effect."
What say you, worthy Gnu, Lord Bruce and all ?
Methinks we should be merry with good cheer,
Let pipe and banjoe sound, and quaff our beer !

Exit the Ladie Jeane of Essex


07 Apr 05 - 08:15 PM (#1454937)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: The Fooles Troupe

The Fooles Troupe is always looking for new contributors -
welcome Amos and Ladie Jeane of Essex!


08 Apr 05 - 05:28 AM (#1455159)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Brucie, I beseech thee, do not leave for my badgering. Tis I who will go, and take my badger with me.... (eats poison mushroom... and, fade to black).


08 Apr 05 - 10:22 AM (#1455351)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: GUEST,Amos

(Enter QUEEN ANOREXIA, with her train. She sees Gnu's prostate. I mean, prostrate form, wails loudly and falls upon it, weeping!!)

Q: Oh woe! Oh heaven! Oh hell! Oh bleary heartburn! Oh, Damn! What nightmare foul is this! I am undone! My love, my love, I pray the stir and return to stir again! For never was a pot so stirred as mine by thee!! Oh, saints, he was all my joy, and I though thin would with him feel more full than fat! He filled me, and you have him ta'en from me! Oh, foul! Oh, fie!

Train: WHooooo! Whooooo!

Q: And will you not rise again? Oh, say 'tis not so! Your rising was ever the best of you! I cannot bear it now, and will not have the chance again!! How shall I live with no Gnu? With my days full of miscreants, and nothing Gnu? Oh, good Gnu this is bad news indeed!! I am broken!! Bad news, and bad Gnu!! I will join thee anon!!

(QUEEN ANOREXIA plunges a dagger into her bosom and falls over the body of Gnu). (Train shuffles off stage right, chuffing).


08 Apr 05 - 12:35 PM (#1455467)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: GUEST

(From beneath the wrathlike body of QUEEN ANOREXIA, a stirring)

What fool! To eat the fruit of dung!
With promise to end all earthly woe,
When guide wouldst more than fairly show
The knowledge, why he'll rise again.
Twas not the Amanita with its blow!
Nor Fly Agaric with a fatal spin,
But lo, from hand of death his body slips!   
For only Psilocybe, passed his lips.


08 Apr 05 - 12:39 PM (#1455477)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Rapparee

Nothing so true as what you once let fall,
"Most Women have no Characters at all."


08 Apr 05 - 12:59 PM (#1455508)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: GUEST,Metchosin

well pardon me for resurrecting him......


08 Apr 05 - 03:54 PM (#1455523)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Gnu,

I sent you a PM. Nowt to do with you, buddy.

Bruce


08 Apr 05 - 04:17 PM (#1455546)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

AGAIN, varlets, AGAIN

Poor boy has no clothes. Wot's THAT about?


08 Apr 05 - 04:35 PM (#1455563)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

Okayyyyyyyyyyyyy . . . .

For 'tis but the lark at the break of day . . . .


09 Apr 05 - 12:33 AM (#1455937)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: LadyJean

My mother told mw the following:
Two English professors were arguing over whether Shakespeare or Bacon had written the plays. Finally the Shakesperean spotted a bowlegged man, and said, "Look, if Bacon had seen that guy he'd have said, 'here comes a bowlegged man.' But if Shakespeare had seen him, he would have said, ' Lo! what manner of man is this? who carries his balls in parentheses!'"


09 Apr 05 - 01:07 AM (#1455952)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: GUEST,Metchosin

LOL! I'll try to remember that one!


09 Apr 05 - 06:15 AM (#1456028)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: gnu

Mmmppfff. Oh, me head. What? The Queen is dead? Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast.

I bore her to a mountain stream,
And many's the summer blossum,
I placed with branches soft and green,
Around her gore stained bosom.
I wept and kissed her clay cold corpse.
Then rushed o'er vale and valley.
My vengence on the foe to wreak.
While soft wind shook the barley.

Oops. Wrong bard. My bad.

(above from "Wind That Shakes the Barley")


09 Apr 05 - 07:22 AM (#1456061)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: The Fooles Troupe

Of course he's out of his skull: he's dead, you Fool!


09 Apr 05 - 11:09 AM (#1456229)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: GUEST,Amos

(Enter the Fool, carrying the Quuen's Crown):

May I not weep for my own Mistress as yon knight Gnu for his?
One knight she knew, but more than one night knew him,
And as he was always good, she knew him well, and that deeply.
Alas, the fair head that bore the sullen Crown, ANorexia is gone!
Now the one full knight and empty nights many
Are fated in their days to carry on -- aye, and She
Who made those days so rare, so bright
Can do so nevermore and is become carrion,
Crowned in clay and benisoned in hungry worms
WHile all the light from her grim domain is now banishéd
And this sorry crown graces some other, dimmer head.
Alas, alack, for a Fool and his Mistress parted
Are like wings struck from a mourning dove
Lying bloody and destroyed, the whole is soon forgotten
in an ugliness of fallen parts. And so am I,
And so are well all, both dazed and knights
Absent fair Anorexia! Adieu, adieu!!

(He staggers off, weeping, stage right)


09 Apr 05 - 09:03 PM (#1456666)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: Peace

The idea of ''harvesting stiffs'' may be macabre, but graveyard humor goes back at least as far as Lazarus. Shakespeare has dying Mercutio cracking wise (''Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man.'') and Hamlet holding poor Yorick's skull as though it were a cantaloupe. So what's wrong with a decedents derby? --Boston Globe


09 Apr 05 - 09:35 PM (#1456694)
Subject: RE: BS: Yorick is out of his skull . . . .
From: The Fooles Troupe

But would "harvesting stiffs" be any cheaper than Mexicans?