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We're cooking up this week's edition of WSTFTD.
Will just took a swig of his drink and said: "This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays!"
Me: "Dude! Someone else's comedy! Let's have an original!"
Me: Hey Will! Look at this! No replies! Guess no one wants to hear your stuff..."
Will: Up yours!"
Suich
(10,642 posts)I've probably learned more about Will from your posts than I did in high school!
Aristus
(66,462 posts)in terms of his personality and so on, is apocryphal or conjecture. I just like to create the illusion that I actually know him...
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)Circa 1585-1600?
Clearly not a California Zinfandel. Probably not tequila, either.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)If they had deep pockets, sack, a dry white wine from Portugal, similar to sherry.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Okay, it's kind of obvious, but e'en so...
Romeo compares her to the sun rising in the East.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)I know he was part of the King's Men and all that but still...
Aristus
(66,462 posts)"That a-GAIN? Okay for you, you headless, two-timing witch! I was retired! You get that? Retired! But the King's Men kept pestering me! Letter after letter they sent: 'Come back, Will. Come back to London. We need something with the Shakespeare name on it.' I was knackered like an old dray horse, but the money they offered was too damn good. I said: 'What are you working on, lads?' They showed me some of Fletcher's pages. Rubbish, the lot of it, but he had the articulated skeletons of at least two good plays. So I prettied them up for him. They were hits. I took my cut, and then lit out for Stratford. And that's it!
One of them was Henry VIII. Happy, Anne?"
Sorry anneboleyn. He's had a few...
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)Aristus
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struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Will does.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)You guys keep hanging with each other so much, people will talk!
Aristus
(66,462 posts)I don't mind. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about...
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)and she said, "Out, out damned spot!" Did she ever let him back in?
Aristus
(66,462 posts)And 'she' was actually a 'he'; Launce the clown.