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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 06:50 PM
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I have a confession. I am a soliloquy many of you may know.
To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--
To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remembered.

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MedleyMisty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 06:53 PM
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1. I memorized that a few years ago
I would whisper it under my breath when I was working drive-thru and the customers treated me like I was shit on their shoe and less intelligent than your average amoeba.
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 06:57 PM
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2. That would be proof enough of your intelligence to me!
I'm impressed. :hi:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 07:01 PM
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3. 'Fardels, Les...'
Sayeth Arthur Carlson, holding a dictionary, to Les Nessman, standing on the ledge of the Flim Building.

One of the funniest lines in "WKRP" history. :D

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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 07:07 PM
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4. I wish I could remember more of that show
I know my Dad used to watch it religiously, but I can barely remember it. Sad, I know.
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