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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 09:13 | |
| It is said that Willy Wobble-weapon has a bon mot to cover every situation and a pithy quote which sums up every notable character. So let's test this out. I kick off with a person or event and if you can find the suitable(st) quote you carry on with a challenge to the next person, and so on ... If we manage between us to get a number of apt theme-quote combos I'll set them up as a poll and we can vote on the best one. ] Here's how it works: Theme: Tony BlairQuote: Oh villain, villain, smiling damned villain! (Hamlet, Act I, scene V) Ok? Next theme; Theme: George W Bush
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 12:39 | |
| Theme: George W. Bush
Quote: "The portrait of a blinking idiot." (The Merchant of Venice, Act II, scene ii)
Theme:The Duke of Edinburgh |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 13:49 | |
| Theme; The Duke of Edinburgh
Quote: His reasons are as two grains of wheat in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. (The Merchant of Venice, Act I, scene i)
Theme: Pop Idol |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 14:15 | |
| Theme: Pop Idol
Quote: "I had rather be a kitten and cry mew/Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." Henry IV Part 1 Act III scene i
Theme: Sir Fred Goodwin |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 16:28 | |
| Gilded tombs do worms enfold. Had you been as wise as bold, Young in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been inscroll'd: Fare you well; your suit is cold. Cold, indeed; and labour lost: Merchant of Venice Act 2 scene v
Boris Johnson |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 16:48 | |
| Theme: Boris Johnson
Quote: "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." (Twelfth Night: Act I sc v)
Theme: Kate Moss |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 16:57 | |
| Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety; other women cloy 272 The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies; Anthony and Cleopatra Act II scene 2
Nigel Kennedy |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 17:03 | |
| Theme: Nigel Kennedy
Quote: "I have a reasonable good ear in music." (A Midsummer Night's Dream Act IV sc 1)
Theme: Girls Aloud |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:27 | |
| Girls Aloud
What a caterwauling do you keep here!
Twelfth Night Act 2 scene iii
Nick Clegg |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:31 | |
| LOL
Theme: Nick Clegg
Quote: "I am a feather for each wind that blows." (The Winter's Tale Act II sc iii)
Theme: Prince Harry |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:45 | |
| Prince Harry
Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds; And he, the noble image of my youth, Is overspread with them.
Henry IV part II Act 4 scene iv |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:58 | |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 20:12 | |
| Sorry - must have trimmed her off when I was setting it out!
Madonna |
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Caro Censura
Posts : 1522 Join date : 2012-01-09
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 20:41 | |
| Madonna: Say that she rail; why then I’ll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Taming of the Shrew, Act 2,Sc1 Idi Amin |
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brenogler Praetor
Posts : 117 Join date : 2011-12-29 Location : newcastle - northumberland
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 20:55 | |
| Indeed, I am in the waist two yards about:
Merry Wives of Windsor, 1,2.
Jonathon Ross. |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri 20 Jan 2012, 21:11 | |
| Theme: Jonathan Ross
Quote: ... he was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks; I have forgot his name. (Henry V, Act IV, scene vii)
Next theme: Sumo wrestling |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 01:38 | |
| The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the duke's wrestler; which Charles in a moment threw him and broke three of his ribs, that there is little hope of life in him As you like it - Act 1 scene ii
Barack Obama |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 09:58 | |
| Theme: Barack Obama
Quote: "O! The fierce wretchedness that glory brings us." (Timon of Athens Act IV sc ii)
Next Theme: Google |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 11:39 | |
| Theme: Google
Quote: "What is it you will see? If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search!" (Hamlet, Act V, scene ii)
Next theme: Wikipedia |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 17:06 | |
| Theme: Wikipedia
Quote: "They are the books, the arts, the academes/That show, contain, and nourish all the world." (Love's Labour's Lost Act IV sc iii)
Next theme: The FIFA World Cup |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 17:17 | |
| Theme: The FIFA World Cup
Quote: "When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport!" (Comedy of Errors, Act II, scene ii)
Next theme: The Smurfs |
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normanhurst Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
Posts : 426 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 18:24 | |
| Theme: The Smurfs
Quote: "That it should come to this!” - Hamlet (Act I, Scene II).
Next theme: dentist’s waiting room. |
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Islanddawn Censura
Posts : 2163 Join date : 2012-01-05 Location : Greece
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 18:39 | |
| Oh bravo Norman! I have been waiting to see if anyone could find anything on little blue people in Shakey's Sacred Scribblings, but that was even better. |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 19:11 | |
| - Quote :
- Next theme: dentist’s waiting room
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. Much Ado Act 5 S 1 |
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normanhurst Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
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| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 20:11 | |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
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| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 20:21 | |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
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| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 21:14 | |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 21:16 | |
| Re-posting it
Stephen Hawking |
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normanhurst Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
Posts : 426 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 21:47 | |
| Theme: Stephen Hawking
Quote: "True is it that we have seen better days". – As you like it (Act II, Scene VII).
Next theme: At the launderette |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 21:55 | |
| Theme: At the launderette.
Quote: "The white sheet bleaching on the hedge..." (The Winter's Tale Act IV sc ii)
Next theme: Harrods |
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normanhurst Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
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| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat 21 Jan 2012, 22:27 | |
| Theme: Harrods
Quote: "I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it" -As You Like It (Act II, Scene IV).
Next theme: airports
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 00:32 | |
| Theme: Airports
Quote: He doth me wrong to feed me with delays. (Titus Andronicus, Act IV, scene iii)
Ok next theme: Mitt Romney |
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Caro Censura
Posts : 1522 Join date : 2012-01-09
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 02:48 | |
| Theme: Mitt Romney
Quote: "This might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?" (Hamlet, Act III, sc i)
Next theme: John Cleese |
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normanhurst Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
Posts : 426 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 05:19 | |
| Theme: John Cleese
Quote: "Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" - (Hamlet Act III, Scene II).
Next theme: Television |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 07:58 | |
| Theme: Television
Quote: "Lechery, lechery; still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion." (Troilus and Cressida Act V sc ii)
Next theme: Richard Dawkins |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 08:06 | |
| Theme: Richard Dawkins
Quote: The very opener and intelligencer between the grace, the sanctities of heaven, And our dull workings. O, who shall believe but you misuse the reverence of your place! (Henry IV, Part II - Act IV, scene ii)
Next theme: Walmart |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 13:26 | |
| Theme: Walmart
Quote: "There is money. Spend it, spend it; spend more..." (The Merry Wives of Windsor Act II sc ii)
Next theme: The BBC |
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normanhurst Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
Posts : 426 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 13:46 | |
| Theme: The BBC
Quote: "All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts" - (As You Like It. Act II, Scene VII).
Next theme: The Archers. |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 14:33 | |
| Theme: The Archers
Quote: "That affable familiar ghost..." (Sonnet 86)
Next theme: Gardeners' Question Time |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 15:46 | |
| Theme: Gardeners' Question Time
Quote: Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
(Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V, scene v)
Next theme: Philippa Gregory |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 16:24 | |
| LOL
Theme: Philippa Gregory
Quote: "Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal." (The Taming of the Shrew Act I sc ii)
Next Theme: Alison Weir |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun 22 Jan 2012, 18:11 | |
| Theme: Alison Weir
Quote: Alas, I am a woman, friendless, hopeless! (Henry VIII, Act III, scene i)
Next theme: Canada |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 23 Jan 2012, 09:53 | |
| Found a better one for Alison:
Theme: Alison Weir
Quote: It is a kind of history. (The Taming of the Shrew, Prologue, scene ii)
Next theme: Canada |
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normanhurst Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
Posts : 426 Join date : 2011-12-27
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 23 Jan 2012, 10:34 | |
| I'm stumped for one on Canada |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 23 Jan 2012, 11:53 | |
| - normanhurst wrote:
- I'm stumped for one on Canada
Hi Norm, Me too. Here's a poor offering, just to get things moving again... Theme: Canada Quote: "...a wonderful piece of work which not to have been blessed withal would have discredited your travel." (Ant and Cleo Act I sc ii) Next theme: The USS Enterprise |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 23 Jan 2012, 12:02 | |
| Theme: The USS Enterprise
Quote: Ne'er heard I of a warlike Enterprise more venturous or desperate than this! (Henry IV, Part I, Act II, scene i)
Next theme: The Six Million Dollar Man |
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MadNan Praetor
Posts : 135 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : Saudi Arabia/UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 23 Jan 2012, 12:19 | |
| Theme: The Six Million Dollar Man
Quote: What a piece of work is a man (Hamlet, Act II, Scene II)
Next Theme: Oil |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 23 Jan 2012, 12:31 | |
| Theme: OilQuote: Nature, on each Bush, lays her full mess before you. (Timon of Athens, Act IV, scene iii) Next theme: Princess Diana |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 23 Jan 2012, 12:35 | |
| Theme: Princess Diana
Quote: "I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you." (Twelfth Night Act V sc i)
Next theme: Downton Abbey |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-25
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon 23 Jan 2012, 14:00 | |
| Theme: Downton Abbey
Quote: Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma, or a hideous dream (Julius Caesar, Act II, scene i)
Next theme: Russell Crowe |
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