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| Actually, it was Dirk Hartog who stepped up and nailed a pewter plate to a tree to say he'd arrived in WA. He couldn't send an email because his compewter was down, actually (or was it virtually?). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As Winston Churchill responded in the House of Commons, when criticised for ending a sentence with a preposition, "Mr Speaker, that is a criticism up with which I will not put!" And let's all agree to cheerfully split a few infinitives. |
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| What do you feed a jargon when you catch one? Do they like jargonzola cheese? Will they step up to the plate for that? At least they are not an endangered species for they proliferate freely and are fair game. A few years ago their "viability" ensured that they "absolutely" "escalated". |
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| Are we going to go jargon hunting now? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Beco, when you are hunting monsters and wild animals you are bound to be bitten. You were very brave and are now most certainly famous. GO BECOBLUE |
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| Daph - that must have been my 15 minutes of fame - or was it infamey? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jan - I'm sure you're right. You'd get along well with my DB who is always telling us not to end a sentence in a prepostition. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| To be or not to be, that is the question. Perhaps it was the door of the Globe. If so he should be told that all globes have to be changed so as to save power. He might have to work by candle or lamp light otherwise! BTW, I notice that your very own, personalised thread has died. Alas poor thread, I knew it well! |
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| Beco, surely that should be 'To what'?! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Will Shakespeare's journey saw him step up to the plate and really nail it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Poor old Will. I do miss him! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I don't know about Clockwork Orange being written by W.S. but it sounds likely. If my memory serves me correctly, on the credits for the 1934 movie, Romeo and Juliet, with Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard, it said, "Play by William Shakespeare with additional dialogue by Budd Schulberg". Budd Schulberg, the script writer for On the Waterfront (Marlon Brando), although born in 1914, is still around in Hollywood (I think). So here is proof that the other one in the It Takes Two of W. Shakespeare and ???? was Budd Schulberg. (I saw this as a very small child, but the incongruity of the names stuck with me.) |
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| BTW, was it Shakespeare who wrote the script for "A Clockwork Orange"? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As Willy S. picked up a lot of his ideas from sailors in the bars around the port, I'm glad he isn't writing scripts today as they would probably sound like that TV chef, (forget his name) and use adjectives of an F nature, which would tend to tarnish his reputation somewhat. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I didn't think all that much of Marlowe. Too much of an English Public School boy for me, with no ear for the music of language. Same applies to Bacon, even if our Will S. did call Francis his little Hamlet - couldn't resist the occasional pun. Still, you were around in the Inns and Taverns more than I was so perhaps you saw more of him than I did. If Shakespeare were living at this day I guess he would be writing sit coms for the BBC or even scripts for Grant Denyer. |
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| My money's on Marlowe. Were you there in the pub the night he got killed in that drunken brawl? Very distressing that was. That was an all's well that didn't end well, a love's labour lost and a midsummer night's nightmare! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Many people seem to think that in Shakespeare's case "It Took Two" and the other one was Bacon, or Marlowe. But Daph and I, who were there, know that it actually took four, the old Bill Shakespeare, Daph, me and his steam-driven computer, to churn out the random words. He had sacked the million monkeys and poor Yorick, typing away on a million and one typewriters some years before we met him. "Alas, poor Yorick," he said to us, " I used him well for one-liners. A fellow of infinite jest." |
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| He had a very old computer. He didn't have time to use it much anyway. Much too busy...head down, tail up and quill dipped in the ink well. Had a goodish brain at work which seemed to be enough! "All the world'a a stage" was his motto! Good bloke. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Well, let's agree not to split hairs (to coin another phrase). I said Shakespeare flew in a helicopter and Daph very kindly gave me the pidgin anachronym for that word, "mixmaster ..." It is debatable whether or not one has to have tried something before knowing that they don't like. All over the country at this moment the following conversation is taking place. Mum: "Nigel, eat your vegies or you won't get any ice-cream!" Nigel: " Yah, waah, waah, waah! I hate vegies." (Stamp, Stamp, Stamp) "I want my ice-cream!" Mum:"How do you know you hate vegies? You've never tasted them." Nigel:"I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. Gimme my ice-cream." (Throws plate of vegies at Mum.) By the way, Shakespeare had all those alternative spellings of his name in his computer's Word dictionary. "Another Bill Gates stuff-up", to use a common piece of computer jargon. |
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| You're looking wonderful for your age, Daph. In fact, in your prime, I would say...lol. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Just kidding, beco. I found him a jolly nice bloke though and a tolerably good actor, but not a patch on David Hobson. The advantages of being ancient are that we've been there and done that. Still joking beco! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| *****Will Shakespeare never flew so he couldn't have liked it***** If he didn't fly, how did he know he didn't like it? I've never eaten caviar, been waterskiing, or won an Olympic Gold Medal, but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't like it if I did any of those things.........lol. |
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| Beco,don't fret, guise84 and I were there when he said it. Guise got there a little before me so he may know more than me, but it's true, Will Shakespeare never flew so he couldn't have liked it. He did like to have a broad overview of the world though so maybe he glided a little, secretly. He had a lot of trouble spelling his own name, I recall. Spelled it 4 or 5 ways so I always wondered how he managed to maintain his literaty career. LOL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| guise84 - YOU didn't say the following either: "mixmaster him belong Jesus Christ" DAPH DID. |
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