Fuck Shakespeare. All he did was string together cliches and famous sayings.

[Rabrrrrrr]

Whoopty fucking doo...

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In my Asimov Guide's To Shakespeare, he recounts an encounter with a (obviously ignorant) woman who actually said she didn't like Hamlet because it was "full of cliches". Bwuhahahahaha! Fucking @*@&$(#.

[Blue_Tires]

1. lol...

i remember a professor that put up a pretty compelling argument that ol' bill wasn't that good, either

[Madspirit]

2. I actually LOVE Shakespeare

...but I guess it takes all kinds.
Lee

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. Wow.

Series? FOR REALZ!?!?!!?! :o

[terrya]

4. Well, for instance, "there is a method to his madness" wasn't a cliche...

WHEN HE WROTE IT!!

Or even now, for that matter.

Sheesh.

[VenusRising]

5. Yes, but there's nothing like a good

Shakespearian insult.

http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/

"Thou paunchy clapper-clawed fustilarian!"

:rofl:

[Richard Steele]

6. Lol. nm

[SOteric]

7. She's mallardjusted.

Tell her to duck off. And "Fie!"

[EFerrari]

8. Thyself upon thyself!

I had to read all the OTHER guys writing in London between 1585 and 1616.

Man -- were they bad :wow: Holy hotspurs, Batman.

The one that I like is when people mistake Polonius line "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" for a saying of Ben Franklin's.

lol

[Orsino]

9. And he coined only a few of the words himself...

...recycling everything else. No wonder he couldn't get a copyright.

Freakin' hack.

[sarge43]

10. And he mixed metaphors too -- the freak! n/t

[northzax]

11. yeah, could he have stolen more stories from other authors?

didn't have an original idea in his head, he was basically the 17th Century's Joe Esterhaus

[edbermac]

12. And fuck Beethoven too...the John Tesh of his day.

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. You're right - the whole end of his ninth symphony was just taken from a tune in my hymnbook

What a loser.

[no name no slogan]

14. Shakespeare was gay. Wikipedia says so

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[El Fuego]

15. The cliches that Polonius spouts to Hamlet are supposed to be a JOKE.

Because they were stupid cliches even in Shakespeare's time. The joke is that the old fart Polonius is laying all this old fart advice on the young guy, who naturally doesn't want to hear it. Because Polonius is just an old fart.

[deepthought42]

16. HA! Love Shakespeare and Asimov

I have a Shakespeare's Insults calendar on my desk. Today's insult is....*drumroll*


I do repent
The tedious minutes I with her
have spent.

-A Midsummer Night's Dream
2.2.111-112 (Lysander speaking of Hermia)


One of my favs is:

Were I like thee, I'd throw away myself.

-The Life of Timon of Athens 4.3.219

:)

[bridgit]

17. i feel that same way about J.S. Bach, the bullshit cracker-slacker; *how dare he*...

just string note after note, as would the unkempt, low rent cleaning woman wicker baskets brimming with soiled underwear skewed upon her teetering hips; note after note clothes lines between desolate slums of a grime, soot riddled turn of the century NYC in so fashionable a way as to warrant some point/counter point prelude, or procession absurd,

that Bach dude pisses me off too :mad:

[Gormy Cuss]

18. Locking.

Calling out a DUer is against the rules.

BTW, Shakespeare is FEMALE.



:P

[Shakespeare]

19. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:yourock:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

And I do NOT use cliches. Hmph.

[Deja Q]

20. Did he shake his spear?

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