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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 04:39 PM
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Poll question: Who else thinks Shakespeare is way overrated?
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Dr Morbius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 05:18 PM
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1. Verily, methinks thou doth protest too much.
400 years later, the storylines and character flaws are still relevant. As for the Bard sucking, well, it was an all-male business in those days.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 05:21 PM
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2. knave
Edited on Tue Jun-15-10 05:25 PM by mix
you probably like the beatles too!
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Dr Morbius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 05:28 PM
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3. Well, yes, actually.
Except I think the better half of the band is dead. That isn't the extent of my Anglophilia either; I have a deep and abiding affection for the proper use of the English language.

I admit to the charge of knavery. I made clean away with the queen's tarts; I confess.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 05:33 PM
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4. "Tarts" is just a damn fine word in any language. nt
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Lurks Often Donating Member (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 06:45 PM
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5. lol
:rofl:
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 07:00 PM
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6. Those shades are amusing on him. nt
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 12:53 AM
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7. Overrated?
Biteth me.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 12:54 AM
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8. consider yourself bitten
(copy cat thread)
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 01:25 AM
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9. I have NEVER understood, gotten, or enjoyed Shakespeare...
Edited on Wed Jun-16-10 01:28 AM by MiddleFingerMom
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In English Lit 101, our final (out of four) section was Shakespeare. I went
from an A+ to a B- due to my inability to "get it".
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If only there were SOME way to jazz up his works with modern technology.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 01:28 AM
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10. well done
Edited on Wed Jun-16-10 01:30 AM by mix
:rofl:
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 01:33 AM
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11. He is way overrated...
...and I say this as a fan of Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers, so you know I'm like eclectic and shit.
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phasma ex machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 01:55 AM
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12. In 1592 rival playwright Robert Greene sniveled
There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes-factotum is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

the allusion to Aesop's crow (who strutted in borrowed plumage, as an actor struts in fine words not his own) - Prefatory Remarks, Signet Classic

"an actor struts in fine words not his own" :rofl:
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 01:59 AM
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13. Robert Greene? Too weird!

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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 03:17 AM
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14. Shit, with the shades he looks like some guy I knew from Allentown, PA...
I never noticed the resemblance before....


mark
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Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 06:57 AM
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15. You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!
Edited on Wed Jun-16-10 06:58 AM by Love Bug
Thou sanguine coward, thou bed-presser, thou horseback-breaker, thou huge hill of flesh!

O teach me how I should forget to think. Thy food is such as hath been belch'd upon by infected lungs! I think thou wast created for men to breath themselves upon thee.













Shakespearian Insulter: http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html

:evilgrin:
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 07:32 AM
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18. very cool, thanks nt
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velvet Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 07:18 AM
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16. The guy in the picture might be kinda overrated
since no alleged portrait of The Bard has ever been verified. So y'know, just because he's wearing Shakespeare's shades it doesn't mean it's really him.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 07:25 AM
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17. I liked him just fine until I found out he wasn't an American
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retread Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 07:47 AM
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19. Who else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o71Gw-rP2Tw
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