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

Boy, we're sounding very intellectual all of a sudden aren't we. Cna we move on to better things now, like Shakespeare:

"I'd rather be a toad in the dankest dungeon,
then keep a corner in the thing I love,
for others uses..."

OK, continuing Shakespeare - "You egg!"
A terrible insult if I ever heard one!

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"You would fall backwards had you wit enough to do so!"

Yet another fantastic Shakespearian insult! He rocked!

*racks brain for more Shakespearean insults*
Nope, I forgot as much Shakespeare as I could... Ah well..

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Don't worry, I could keep going for hours:

"You, sir, are a fishmonger!"

"You're a fusty nut with no kernal"

"You painted maypole! You theirf of love!"

"You cancerblossom, you puppet you!"

"You are a senator!!"

etc etc...need I go on?

I can do serious Shakespeare quotes too you know.

Serious? When there are funny ones? Why??

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most of the serious ones are a little (or a lot) disturbing. take titus andronicus for example. the whole rape of lavinia thing was just *sick*. then there was othello. less sick, but still disturbed - except for , "do not think sir that i am drunk..." etc. cassio: a class act.

so... funny:

"Asses are made to bear, and so are you." - The Taming of the Shrew

"He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous." - Julius Caesar


but you know who i love? oscar wilde. he rocks.

"whenever i feel like exercise, i always lie down until the feeling passes"

or

"i can resist anything except temptation"

Yeah, so far every Oscar Wilde quote I've read I've liked.

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exactly!

"whenever people agree with me, i always feel i must be wrong"

Cant beat old Oscar for entertainment value. I like the lesser known comedians, such as Emily Bronte. Who would have guessed it?

"A guest who is safe from repeating his visit can generally be made welcome!"

just cos you have a wuthering heights fixation...

ooh, how about tolkein?

"neither age nor an enormous dinner had clouded his wits" (FOTR)

and of course,

"where are you, you wooly-footed slow-coach? nob!"

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well, glad i wasn't the only one. hoho!

back to oscar (who i share my birthday with...!):

"to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

Only cos your toes didnt work out for you...

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You see, if you had posted that on the OTHER conversation it would have made much more sense.

M: by way of explanation... we had a bbq on the beach on Friday, and I had sandals, nice shiny new nail polish and a toering... so the plan was footflirting. I failed. Hmph.

Oh... OK...

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Exactly. See you would have understood that so much better if a certain Ms. YANGLE had stuck to the original quotes thing and not to something that was *so* not relevant.

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius." - OW

True, my genious has never been forgiven.

"Yesterday I couldn't spell educated, today I is it"

That's such an 80s-ism!

"Cry 'havoc!' And let slip the dogs of war..."

Woof woof.