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frau kaleun · 07-02-10, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Had to come up with sumptin'. Too late to fix it now.

To 'e' or not to 'e' - that is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the thread to edit
The slips and typos of outrageous fingers
Or take aim with witty repartee
And by outsnarking, deflect them...

Sailor Steve · 07-02-10, 09:24 PM

frau kaleun · 07-02-10, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Lol, and that's about as far as I can get riffing off my memory of the original... I do okay until I get to something about shuffling off this mortal coil and then my brain takes a wild detour and I end up in the middle of Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch.

OTOH I still know a hawk from a handsaw, so I got that goin' for me.

Sailor Steve · 07-02-10, 09:39 PM

The truth is I'm so Shakespeare-challenged that it wasn't until a couple of decades ago when I saw the BBC version of MacBeth with Jeremy Brett that I know where the legendary quote on alcohol "increaseth the desire while it decreaseth the performance" came from.

frau kaleun · 07-02-10, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The truth is I'm so Shakespeare-challenged that it wasn't until a couple of decades ago when I saw the BBC version of MacBeth with Jeremy Brett that I know where the legendary quote on alcohol "increaseth the desire while it decreaseth the performance" came from.

I don't know if it's still true but when I was in school we were taught that there were two works of literature that, between them, were the source of more common English "turns of phrase" than anything else ever written in the language. One was the King James Bible, and the other was "Hamlet."

Today of course that place of honor would probably go to icanhascheezburger.com, lol.

d@rk51d3 · 07-05-10, 02:49 AM

GORILLA.

Jimbuna · 07-05-10, 01:37 PM

UnderseaLcpl · 07-02-10, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

To 'e' or not to 'e' - that is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the thread to edit
The slips and typos of outrageous fingers
Or take aim with witty repartee
And by outsnarking, deflect them...

What light through yonder browser window breaks? It is the internets, and fair Frau Kaleun is the sun. Too bad I have to minimize it so I can work on homework for a few minutes, rather than screwing around on subsim. Fate is a cruel mistress.

frau kaleun · 07-02-10, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

What light through yonder browser window breaks? It is the internets, and fair Frau Kaleun is the sun. Too bad I have to minimize it so I can work on homework for a few minutes, rather than screwing around on subsim. Fate is a cruel mistress.

The course of u-boat love never did run smooth.

Sailor Steve · 07-02-10, 09:51 PM

HOLY MACAROLEYS!

I didn't know it was even available. The absolute best filmed version of Taming Of The Shrew was done in 1976 by the San Francisco Repetory Theater. It starred Marc Singer, much maligned for movies like The Beastmaster, but brilliant on stage in this production.

And it's available on DVD! I just ordered my copy!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...O/imdb-button/

frau kaleun · 07-02-10, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

HOLY MACAROLEYS!

I didn't know it was even available. The absolute best filmed version of Taming Of The Shrew was done in 1976 by the San Francisco Repetory Theater. It starred Marc Singer, much maligned for movies like The Beastmaster, but brilliant on stage in this production.

And it's available on DVD! I just ordered my copy!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...O/imdb-button/

There was also a version done with John Cleese as Petruchio, which is the only version I've seen. (I've seen bits of the Burton/Taylor film but not all the way through.) Probably was a BBC production that was shown here on PBS. They ran a whole series of Shakespeare plays that were originally produced for the BBC.

Don't know if it was the same series - probably not - but I still remember seeing Derek Jacoby as Hamlet and Ian Holm as Lear on PBS.

One of the US cable channels (USA? A&E? can't remember) also did a version of "King Lear" starring Patrick Stewart... but they set it in Texas in the 1840s.

Of course IMO the ultimate adaptation of Lear is Kurosawa's "Ran."

Gerald · 07-02-10, 10:23 PM

The answer gives me...wild dog,no further comment

Platapus · 07-02-10, 11:05 PM

Shakespeare?

What a phony.

He like totally stole from West Side Story dude!

fer sure!

Jimbuna · 07-04-10, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

What light through yonder browser window breaks? It is the internets, and fair Frau Kaleun is the sun. Too bad I have to minimize it so I can work on homework for a few minutes, rather than screwing around on subsim. Fate is a cruel mistress.

conus00 · 07-04-10, 10:42 AM

Fitting, considering the forum I am on right now.

On second hand there are few fact in the description which are off.
(and I'm not sure about being in same category with Hillary Clinton...

)

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	The truth is I'm so Shakespeare-challenged that it wasn't until a couple of decades ago when I saw the BBC version of MacBeth with Jeremy Brett that I know where the legendary quote on alcohol "increaseth the desire while it decreaseth the performance" came from. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	HOLY MACAROLEYS! I didn't know it was even available. The absolute best filmed version of Taming Of The Shrew was done in 1976 by the San Francisco Repetory Theater. It starred Marc Singer, much maligned for movies like The Beastmaster, but brilliant on stage in this production. And it's available on DVD! I just ordered my copy! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...O/imdb-button/ __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,382 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Shakespeare? What a phony. He like totally stole from West Side Story dude! fer sure! __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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conus00 Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2008 Location: DB85 Posts: 804 Downloads: 166 Uploads: 0	Fitting, considering the forum I am on right now. On second hand there are few fact in the description which are off. (and I'm not sure about being in same category with Hillary Clinton... ) __________________

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