h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Cathedral Bombast - A87817477

I planned one of my next Entries to be about Romanesque architecture...

Great! I love that architecture.

My favourite is the doppelte Schwarzreheindorfkirche in Beuel.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Maria_und_Clemens_(Schwarzrheindorf)

That's really a very pretty church. I've never seen it before.

I used to live within walking distance. On Sundays and holidays, I would walk over there to enjoy it. If you go to Bonn, here's what you do:

1. Cross the JFK Bridge on foot, to Beuel. This takes maybe 10 minutes.
2. Turn left into the Rheinaustrasse. Keep going to the end of the street.
3. Walk across the the park (Rheinau) to the other side.
4. You'll see the church right there.

That was a long time ago, but I'll bet it hasn't changed much. It's easy time travel. Suddenly, you're back in the Middle Ages.

It's very small, isn't it

Fnar fnar

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

You should see the old picture of Bishop Anno. He endowed three churches and tow monasteries. The official portrait has him juggling buildings...

[Amy P]

Icy's posting reminds me of the time the vicar poured Andy Capp a 20 year old whisky - to which Andy commented: "Bit small for its age, isn't it?"

Do not bug me, you people. I have just managed to summarise the plot of 'Hamlet' in under 250 words.

Without using any relative clauses or words not in the Basic English list.

I think we should make this a Create challenge.

Hamlet? Completely absurd theater: It takes place in Elsinore - but there is not one single drunk Swede in the cast!

Son tries to avenge father's death, totally s up.

There, done it in 9

Yeah, but I'm not allowed to cuss at schoolchildren.

Pierce, I agree about the lack of drunken Swedes. All in all, there's too little beer in that play.

When I was 18, many moons ago, me and a friend co-wrote a play: Hamlet's Video Diary. And we formed a theatre company to produce it.

It was a modernisation of Hamlet, set in gangland London. This was before that Baz bloke redid Romeo & Juliet.

In this play, there was drinking. On stage. And then during the interval the characters were in the bar with the audience, in character, and that meant more drinking for some of them.

By the end of the night, Claudius and Hamlet were both a little on the tipsy side

The guy playing Hamlet was adament that we stick with the original soliloquy, I said he should just start it and then say "ah, it."

I gave in, let him do it as I knew he really wanted to. First night, full house (it was a full house all three nights it was on) and he stares out, slightly drunkenly, at the audience... and forgot his words. So he said my version, but was so in character with the alcohol making him forget that he got an ovation, every night.

that's great

Great! Sounds like a cool production.

I was in a production of 'Twelfth Night' once, during a matinee, when the people on stage outnumbered the geriatric audience. The actors got so bored they started improvising...

Before we were done, the entire cast list of 'The Brady Bunch' had ended up in Shakespeare, much to the director's dismay.

After digging up poor Yorick (and all the other shenanigans) Hamlet was so dirty, unwashed and sweaty that what his father's ghost actually muttered was: "I scent the mourning heir"