I know I'm insane, but.....

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:32 am

shyal_malkes wrote:"biting one's thumb" (according to my high school english teacher) was the mideval equivelant of giving the finger in today's society

That is correct.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:17 am

*hands Solidus a band aid*

just in case you hurt your thumb or something...

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:54 am

"Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?!"

"Bite my thumb at you, sir? No! I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I do bite my thumb, sir!"

(5 moonie points to who name that quote)

Strategia · Post by **Strategia** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:10 am

Could that possibly be Monty Python?

*waits until nightfall, then creeps to Solidus's room for igniting a few unfriendly posts* "Is this a dagger, which I see before me?"

(we're doing Shakespeare in school for English Literature now, we're reading through Macbeth. Gotts love the monologues that guy can write!

)

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:19 am

Madmoonie wrote:"Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?!"

"Bite my thumb at you, sir? No! I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I do bite my thumb, sir!"

(5 moonie points to who name that quote)

Abram and Sampson,from "Romeo and Juliet"

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:24 am

Strategia wrote:Could that possibly be Monty Python?

*waits until nightfall, then creeps to Solidus's room for igniting a few unfriendly posts* "Is this a dagger, which I see before me?" (we're doing Shakespeare in school for English Literature now, we're reading through Macbeth. Gotts love the monologues that guy can write! )

Act 2, Scene 1

Yes, I love Shakespeare, and Macbeth is my all time favorite.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:37 am

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

I was Decius Brutus in Julius Ceaser. I love Shakespeare! He rocks. My fav.....Much Ado About Nothing. Raunchy jokes every other line. Really funny and a classic comedy. Good play. I was Antonio in that one.

(*snaps fingers and turns around)
Oh, and Solidus? 5 moonie points for you.... 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

(goes off muttering To be or not to be? That is the question, whether tis nobler in the minds of men to sufffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them?)

GrayTiger · Post by **GrayTiger** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:04 pm

Oh, you David Copperfield! You Tale of Two Cities! You Oliver Twist!

Sorry, I felt I had to give him the Dickens.

Celidah the Bardess · Post by **Celidah the Bardess** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:33 am

I've never been IN a Shakespeare play, but I did crew (some props, some costume, lotta painting) for my school's WICKED AWESOME production of Midsummers' Night Dream. In fact, I went and watched the movie afterward and was disappointed. </shameless bragging>

Best other live Shakespeare play I saw was A Comedy of Errors set in New Orleans...pre-Katrina, that is.

Best movie was Much Ado about Nothing with Kenneth Branagh.

Has anyone here ever heard of the Reduced Shakespeare Company?

NydaLynn · Post by **NydaLynn** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:18 am

Hehehe... so much for a quiet thread.

In response to an earlier question about elderberries..
They are this neat little berry that health/nature nuts swear helps prevent or cure flue and the common cold. I've never had it though I have been tempted to try at. At over 12 bucks a bottle though... I thought I would live if I caught cold. Lol! There is a winery near my hometown that makes Elderberry juice and I picked up a pamphlet.
Caio!

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:15 pm

and yet we're only arguing for the sake of arguing

I had a drama teacher that (i heard this but never saw it displayed before me) was so supersticious that if you weren't playing the play mcbeth, and someone said the word mcbeth, she would have that person wait outside and only allow that person back in when he/she had lines to say on stage and then it was back out side with him/her, rain, shine, snow, black hole anything! you went out and didn't get back in unless you had a line to say!

I liked drama.

Traxer · Post by **Traxer** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:41 am

Haven't read as much of ol' Will as I should but one of my favs so far is 12th Night because, let's face it, its one of the most amusing love 'triangles' ever which to actually to explain to someone would have them giving the 'look' or just slapping you.

Ah Fez. I bow to your expert jesting of a wise fool.

All this of course, is on the off-topic of on-topicness.

Traxer 8)

CasVeg · Post by **CasVeg** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:16 pm

I still need to convince Johnen Vasquez to do a modern rendition of Hamlet.

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:54 pm

shyal_malkes wrote:and yet we're only arguing for the sake of arguing

I had a drama teacher that (i heard this but never saw it displayed before me) was so supersticious that if you weren't playing the play mcbeth, and someone said the word mcbeth, she would have that person wait outside and only allow that person back in when he/she had lines to say on stage and then it was back out side with him/her, rain, shine, snow, black hole anything! you went out and didn't get back in unless you had a line to say!

I liked drama.

MacBeth
MacBeth
MacBeth
MacBeth
MacBeth

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:15 pm

Friends, Romans, Countrymen! Lend me your ears! I come to bury Ceaser not to praise him!

Oooo! Another favorite!

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:21 pm

*takes Sol's cardboard box and tosses it outside*

out you go!

UncleMonty · Post by **UncleMonty** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:36 pm

Well, of course - he uttered the name of "The Scottish Play"!

StrangeWulf13 · Post by **StrangeWulf13** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:41 pm

This is a forum thread, not a theater.

Now, if it were an RP set inside a theater... then maybe you'd have just cause.

Besides, what makes you think he was in that one?

*points to mountain of cardboard boxes* Have fun!

Maxgoof · Post by **Maxgoof** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:58 pm

Madmoonie wrote:Friends, Romans, Countrymen! Lend me your ears! I come to bury Ceaser not to praise him!

Oh, don't stop there.

The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Ceasar. The noble Brutus hath told you Ceasar was ambition. If it were so, it is a grievous fault, and grievously hath Ceasar answered it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, for Brutus is an honorable man, so are they all, all honorable men, come I to speak a Ceasar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:06 pm

That was my audtion piece for Julius Ceaser. I was Decius.