Much Ado About Nothing

[prettyserpentine]

I have to say, The Scottish Play is my favourite. But I do enjoy The Winter's Tale too, and of course Hamlet.

 

[Recidiva]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF7wfHNi4Yo&list=PLK-WQ6ahaYmk9AnlhSDdDi-ESqHcslRiX

ENJOY

I AM GOING TO WATCH ALL OF THIS.

I love this production so very much. I haven't sat down and watched it in a while. If they had it streaming on Amazon I'd buy it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yeah, I guess most of my introduction was through actual theater and through actors themselves, so although I think Americans are missing the point a lot, I didn't.

I don't really feel sorry for them, it's sort of like not liking ice cream. Okay, your loss combined with "what the hell is your problem - it's ice cream!"

Maybe some folks are inherently Shakespeare intolerant.

No.

It may come as a shock.

A good portion of our fellows are simply stupid.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Yeah, I guess most of my introduction was through actual theater and through actors themselves, so although I think Americans are missing the point a lot, I didn't.

I don't really feel sorry for them, it's sort of like not liking ice cream. Okay, your loss combined with "what the hell is your problem - it's ice cream!"

Maybe some folks are inherently Shakespeare intolerant.

I'm married to a naïf like you. She devoutly believes in the inherent goodness and wisdom of humans, and I remind her that Jesus was tortured by decent folks.

 

[Recidiva]

I have to say, The Scottish Play is my favourite. But I do enjoy The Winter's Tale too, and of course Hamlet.

Actors are crazy and will actually blame failures on saying "The Scottish Play" incorrectly.

Even if it's a high school production of "Grease"

 

[Recidiva]

No.

It may come as a shock.

A good portion of our fellows are simply stupid.

I know I've labeled several of them so, but I simply won't give up on all of them at once.

They will have to meet me and disappoint me first.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I play the house odds.

I make the base assumption and then,

They have to say something to convince me that they are not stupid.

 

[Recidiva]

I'm married to a naïf like you. She devoutly believes in the inherent goodness and wisdom of humans, and I remind her that Jesus was tortured by decent folks.

Awww. Nice lady.

And theoretically Jesus let them and it was a total gotcha move.

I don't feel that sorry for Jesus actually. Couple hours of torture, right hand of God for eternity. I didn't get that deal. Probably because I'm a girl and simultaneously not divine.

Doesn't seem fair.

 

[Recidiva]

I play the house odds.

I make the base assumption and then,

They have to say something to convince me that they are not stupid.

If someone treats me as if I am stupid, I will play along with it so I don't have to spend more time with them. My dad taught me that.

I treat people as if they were intelligent and it's up to them to decide what to do with that.

 

[Recidiva]

Oh, more Nicholas Nickelby nostalgia.

There isn't enough Edward Petherbridge in my daily life.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If someone wants me to think they are stupid, then they cannot be trusted.


Ever.

 

[Recidiva]

If someone wants me to think they are stupid, then they cannot be trusted.


Ever.

"What is a bad man but a good man's job?" - Tao Te Ching

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Awww. Nice lady.

And theoretically Jesus let them and it was a total gotcha move.

I don't feel that sorry for Jesus actually. Couple hours of torture, right hand of God for eternity. I didn't get that deal. Probably because I'm a girl and simultaneously not divine.

Doesn't seem fair.

Yes, many people love her and stuck her with all the heavy lifting before she retired.

She never did get the lesson that it aint luv when the boss hugs you, then lets a 19 year old husky boy sit on his ass while a 60-something woman with diabetes and hypertension unloads a truck fulla frozen chickens. I figger the boss was getting some of that lad's best.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

"What is a bad man but a good man's job?" - Tao Te Ching

Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? Suffer the pricks not!

 

[Recidiva]

Yes, many people love her and stuck her with all the heavy lifting before she retired.

She never did get the lesson that it aint luv when the boss hugs you, then lets a 19 year old husky boy sit on his ass while a 60-something woman with diabetes and hypertension unloads a truck fulla frozen chickens. I figger the boss was getting some of that lad's best.

Well...I resist learning that lesson myself. Although I might think it, I'll also just do the lifting because lifting needs to be done.

It's more thinking some people are children other than peers and need looking after.

 

[Recidiva]

Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? Suffer the pricks not!

I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a queen of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams

 

[butters]

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I only see shadows on the cave wall...

 

[butters]

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

 

[Recidiva]

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

I'm pretty sure I have a great dose of scurrility in my conversation.

 

[Recidiva]

I only see shadows on the cave wall...

Are you in the same cave as the Rudesby?

 

[butters]

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Are you in the same cave as the Rudesby?

Now it is the time of night
That the graves, all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite
In the church-way paths to glide.

 

[butters]

I'm pretty sure I have a great dose of scurrility in my conversation.

the thing i love about shakespeare (well, one of the many many things) is his understanding of human nature; his characters are imbued with it, and so speak from their natures as much as from any idealistic notions of his own.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I only see shadows on the cave wall...

AJ, I wonder that you will still be speaking.
Nobody marks you.