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Wed Sep-21-11 09:01 AM
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Things we say today that we owe to Shakespeare. Can you add to the list. |
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Wed Sep-21-11 10:53 AM
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Well, that's what I said whenever I was assigned to read the stuff.
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Wed Sep-21-11 12:04 PM
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Edited on Wed Sep-21-11 12:04 PM by Seedersandleechers
I loved reading Shakespeare.
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Thu Sep-22-11 10:07 AM
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17. It just isn't 9th grade material. "Flowers for Algernon" was more my thing. |
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Wed Sep-21-11 12:11 PM
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3. "Kill all lawyers" A thought I personally tend to agree with. n/t |
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Wed Sep-21-11 12:32 PM
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4. You might not mean that |
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if in fact you ever need one.
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Wed Sep-21-11 01:04 PM
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6. That line means the opposite of what you think it does. It's intended to show lawyers valuable role. |
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"The first thing we do," said the Dick the Butcher character in Shakespeare's Henry VI, is "kill all the lawyers." Contrary to popular belief, the proposal was not designed to restore sanity to commercial life. Rather, it was intended to eliminate those who might stand in the way of a contemplated revolution -- thus underscoring the important role that lawyers can play in society.
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Wed Sep-21-11 05:28 PM
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8. Taken completely out of context |
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and doesn't mean what you think it does.
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Thu Sep-22-11 10:52 AM
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If you want to get around the law or do away with the law, kill all the lawyers.
:hi:
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Thu Sep-22-11 12:04 PM
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I just love how folks bash lawyers, until they need one. :) :hi:
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Thu Sep-22-11 12:41 PM
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Thu Sep-22-11 10:51 AM
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20. I thought that would come up. Thanks a lot. |
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Next time some corporation's shitty product kills one of your loved ones, call an accountant.
Bake, Esq.
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Wed Sep-21-11 01:01 PM
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5. "There's the rub" / "eaten me out of house and home" / "et tu, xxx" |
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"good riddance" "Greek to me"
and many more
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Wed Sep-21-11 05:26 PM
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7. many a truth is told in jest |
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Wed Sep-21-11 05:30 PM
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9. You'll love this site then |
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Wed Sep-21-11 09:17 PM
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10. "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" |
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and "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"
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Fri Sep-23-11 05:13 PM
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One of my all-time faves.
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Sat Sep-24-11 12:41 PM
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36. Sounds better in the original Klingon |
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:rofl:
Gotta love a Shakespeare-quoting Klingon!
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Wed Sep-21-11 09:54 PM
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11. Will Shakespeare coined a lot of household words. |
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Including the phrase "household words".
Truth is, it's probable that a lot of the words and phrases we attribute to him are actually ones that he popularized, rather than coined. A lot of his more famous quotes may actually have been in common use in his day, but only first appeared in print (or on stage, actually) because of The Bard.
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Wed Sep-21-11 10:14 PM
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Sure, Seinfeld made it famous but The Bard was first. From Loves Labours Lost Act IV Scene II...
HOLOFERNES
The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven; and anon falleth like yaddath yaddath yaddath.
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Wed Sep-21-11 10:51 PM
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13. Nice try, but I believe the words you were looking for are |
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"like a crab on the face of terra, the soil, the land, the earth."
B-)
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Wed Sep-21-11 10:55 PM
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14. You must have different edition |
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Thu Sep-22-11 01:45 AM
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15. I just noticed that the author/artist misspelled 'bated' |
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Fri Sep-23-11 11:37 PM
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33. Love that slip, don't you? |
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It's a shortening of "abated", meaning that someone watching the event in question was holding his breath in anticipation. Not getting that point shows one as repeating by wrote, not understanding the idea in question.
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Thu Sep-22-11 08:44 AM
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16. Anything that begins with "un". Unpopular, unappealing, etc. nt |
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Thu Sep-22-11 10:45 AM
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:P How about, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."? Though maybe, when it is used, it is acknowledged that it is Shakespearean, unlike some of these others.
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Thu Sep-22-11 10:51 AM
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19. 'A fool's paradise', 'beware the ides of March', 'crack of doom', 'dog will have its day', etc. |
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Really, I have a list of 150 everyday expressions that came from Shakespeare. http://www.lomonico.com/bookch4.html
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Thu Sep-22-11 01:10 PM
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A guys walks out of the theater after seeing Hamlet for the first time. “I don’t know why everybody thinks Hamlet is such a well-written play,” he says. “It is full of clichés.”
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Thu Sep-22-11 02:43 PM
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25. Spongeworthy ... Oh SNAP! ... |
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Thu Sep-22-11 11:42 PM
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26. "Get off my lawn you fucking hippie!" was in Romeo & Juliette |
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I believe - said by Juliette's father to Romeo.
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Fri Sep-23-11 01:17 PM
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27. We are such stuff as dreams are made on |
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What the dickens Salad Days Be All and End All Cruel to be Kind.......
And so much more
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Fri Sep-23-11 04:34 PM
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28. What fools these mortals be. |
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Slaughtered in The Joy of Cooking as, "What foods these morsels be!"
:rofl:
Lots of book titles like Fatal Vision, Uneasy Lies the Head, Good Night Sweet Prince.
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Fri Sep-23-11 05:16 PM
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30. "Who steals my purse steals trash..." (NT) |
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Fri Sep-23-11 11:31 PM
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31. revenge is a dish best served cold |
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It turns up now and then...
(Othello, spoken by Iago, the Ensign)
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Sat Sep-24-11 01:13 PM
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37. I thought it was Klingon |
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Fri Sep-23-11 11:36 PM
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"To be or not to be"
"Once more untoo the breech, dear friends, once more".
People believe that Hamlety said "Methinks the lady doth protsteth too much". It was actually his mother who said "The lady doth protest too much, methinks".
I may be off a word or 2, but the gist is right.
PEACE!
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Fri Sep-23-11 11:51 PM
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34. "Caesar. Beware the Ides of March!" |
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We actually did "Julius Caesar" in high school and I was Caesar.
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Sat Sep-24-11 12:07 PM
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35. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark |
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Edited on Sat Sep-24-11 12:08 PM by meow2u3
Hamlet
Also, from the same play: Get thee to a nunnery.
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Sat Sep-24-11 01:14 PM
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38. "Oh, that way madness lies" |
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Something I say to myself quite frequently.
(King Lear, Act 3, scene 4, line 21)
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