Quote :

Meet it is I set it down, that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain."

Hmmph, sounds like our Prime Minister. All charm and nothing else much.

Theme: Oscar Wilde

Quote: "Since the little wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes a great show." As you Like It, Act I, sc ii.

Next theme: Robert Falcon Scott

Theme: Scott of the Antarctic

Quote: "It is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice." (Measure for Measure, Act III, scene ii)





Next theme: Bangkok

Theme: Bangkok

Quote: "And though I make this marriage for my peace,

I'th'East my pleasure lies." (Antony and Cleopatra Act II sc iii)

Next theme: Heathrow

Theme: Heathrow

"I have not slept one wink"( Cymbelline Act 3 Scene 3)

Next Theme:Computers

Theme: Computers

Quote: "The choice and master spirits of this age." (Julius Caesar Act III sc i)

Next Theme: Top Shop

Top Shop
Remember who commended thy yellow stockings

Twelfth Night
Act 2 scene v

Banker's bonuses.

Theme: Bankers' bonuses

Quote: "Ha, ha! What a fool Honesty is! And Trust his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! (The Winter's Tale Act IV sc iii)

Next theme: The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Theme:The Royal Military Academy,Sandhurst

"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it"

As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 4.

Next Theme:The Weather

Theme: the weather



Quote: "We have seen better days". - (Timon of Athens Act IV, Scene II).



Next theme: microwave ovens.

Theme: Microwave Ovens



‘I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.’

(Macbeth: Act II, Scene 1)



Next Theme: Plates

Theme: Plates

Quote: "...your honours have seen such dishes; they are not China dishes, but very good dishes..." (Measure For Measure Act II sc i)

Next theme: Pilates

Theme: Pilates



‘Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: …

(Othello: Act I, Scene 3)



Next Theme: Pontius Pilot

Pontius Pilate :

Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!—One; two: why, then
'tis time to do't.—Hell is murky.—Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and
afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our
pow'r to accompt?

Macbeth Act 5 scene i

High speed rail

Theme: High speed rail

Quote: "This fool's speed be cross'd with slowness" (Cymbeline, Act III, scene v)




Next theme: Moving house

Theme: Moving House



RODERIGO: Is that true? Why, then Othello and Desdemona return again to Venice.

IAGO: O, no; he goes into Mauritania and takes away with him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be lingered here by some accident:

(Othello: Act IV, Scene2)



Next Theme: Heart Transplants

Theme: Heart transplants

Quote: "My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar." (Julius Caesar, Act III, scene ii)



Next theme: The London doubledecker bus

Theme: The London doubledecker bus



Quote: I am to wait, though waiting so be hell: (Sonnet 58)



Next Theme:

The EU

Theme: The EU



There are as many Shakespearean quotes in favour as are against!



Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!
As man and wife, being two, are one in love,
So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,
That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,
Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,
Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,
To make divorce of their incorporate league;
(Henry V; Act V, Scene 2)





Next Theme: Scottish Independence

Oh, Oz - you write so tiny!



Theme: Scottish Independence

Quote: "Now call we our high court of parliament;
And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel,
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best govern'd nation" (Henry IV Part II, Act V, scene ii)



Next theme: The Roadrunner and Wile. E. Coyote

Theme: Shakespeare

Quote: "He was a man, take him for all in all,

I shall not look upon his like again." (Hamlet Act I sc ii)

Next theme: Lady Antonia Fraser

Theme: Lady Antonia Fraser

Quote: "She told him stories to delight his ear; She show'd him favours to allure his eye." from The Passionate Pilgrim, Poem 1.

[I only know Antonia Fraser as a an author of historical biographies, but I gather from google that she is also known for her relationships, mostly with Harold Pinter.]

Next theme: Harold Pinter (why not?)

Harold Pinter

The rest is silence
Hamlet Act 5 Scene ii


A Birthday Party

Theme: A Birthday Party

Quote: "This candle burns not clear: 'tis I must snuff it,

Then out it goes." (Henry VIII Act III sc ii)

Next theme: David Hockney

Theme: Roller Skates

Quote: Trimphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys. Cymbeline Act IV, Sc ii



Next theme: William Bligh

I have gone through this (a bigger job than I had anticipated) and here are the topics we have had so far, in case there are people with memories like mine. Apologies for any missing, and spelling mistakes.

Tony Blair, George W Bush, Duke of Edinburgh, Pop Idol, Boris Johnson, Kate Moss, Nigel Kennedy, Nick Clegg, Prince Harry, Madonna, Idi Amin, Jonathon Ross, Sumo wrestling, Barack Obama, Google, Wikipedia, FIFA World Cup, Smurfs, Dentist’s waiting room, Stephen Hawking, Harrods, Airports, Mitt Romney, John Cleese, Richard Dawkins, Walmart, BBC, Archers, Gardeners’ Question Time, Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, Canada, USS Enterprise, Oil, Princess Diana, Downton Abbey, Russell Crowe, Higgs Bosom thinkgy, Mobile phones, Euro, McDonald’s, Paul Daniels, Vacuum cleaner, Reality TV, Religion, Republican primaries, Bill Gates, Star Trek, Divorce, The Iron Lady, Sandra Bullock, Brian Blessed, Page 3 girls, Laurence Olivier, Dentist’s drill, Disneyland, Simon Cowell, Flared Jeans, Ant and Dee, Jools Holland, Haggis, Banks, Res Historica, St George, Arthur Scargill, Supermarket queues, Chinese meals, The Big Bang, Credit cards, Titanic, ASBOs, Genealogy, Nice cup of tea, Rolling Stones, Essex girls, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Formula One Motor Racing, Jereny Clarkson, Ricahrd III Society, Oscar Wilde, Scott of the Antarctic, Bangkok, Heathrow, Computers, Top Shop, Bankers’ bonuses, Rpyal Military Academy Sandhurst, The Weather, Microwave ovens, Plates, Pilates, Pontius Pilate, High speed rail, Moving house, Heart Transplants, London doubledecker buses, EU, Scottish independence, Roadrunner and Wile.E Coyote, Shakespeare, Lady Antonia Fraser, Harold Pinter, A birthday party, Roller Skates, William Bligh.

Theme: William Bligh

Quote: "Do not abuse my master's Bounty!" (Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, scene ii)




Next theme: Ireland

Theme: Ireland

Quote: "Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises,

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears and sometime voices..."

(The Tempest Act III sc ii)

Next theme: The Oscars

Theme: The Oscars

Quote: "Then came each actor on his ass." (Hamlet, Act II, scene ii)




Next theme: The Superbowl

Theme: The Superbowl

Quote: And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,

And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot (As You Like It, Act II, sc vii)



Next theme: Christmas cards

Theme: Christmas Cards

Quote: And at the door too, like a post with packets (King Henry VIII, Act V, sc ii)



Next theme:

Cricket

Theme: Cricket

Quote: "Why, this is very midsummer madness." (Twelfth Night Act III sc iv)

Next theme: Emoticons

Theme: Emoticons

Quote: "Yea the illiterate, that know not how
To cipher what is writ in learned books,
Will quote their loathsome trespass in these looks"
(The Rape of Lucrecia)



Next theme: The Magic Roundabout

Theme: The Magic Roundabout



Quote: Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration and what mighty magic, (Othello, Act I, sc iii)



Next theme: Strictly Come Dancing

Theme: Strictly Come Dancing

Quote: "You and I are past our dancing days." (Romeo and Juliet Act I sc v)

Next theme: Murrayfield

Theme: Murrayfield

Quote: "There is not such a word spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear!" (Henry IV Part I, Act IV, scene i)

(ok - irony then)




Next theme: Yogi Bear

Theme: Yogi Bear

Quote: Stealing and giving odour. (Twelfth Night, 1.1.1-7)



Next theme: Mayan Calendar

Theme: The Mayan Calendar

Quote: "... fickle, false and full of fraud!" (Venus and Adonis)




Next theme: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be.
Midsummer Night's Dream Act 5 scene i


Simon Cowell

We've done him.

So? Do you not agree that he should be done again - and again, and again, till he gives up?


Otherwise, how about Arthur Mullard?

I've never heard of him, so he won't do. (Not very familiar with Simon Cowell either - is he to do with a reality programme, dancing or something? Maybe that's someone else.)

Never said how much I liked your quote for Harold Pinter - very good.

Caro.

Theme: Arthur Mullard

Quote: "I am afraid this great lubber, the world will prove a cockney." (Twelfth Night, Act IV, scene i)



Next theme: Neil Armstrong

Theme: Neil Armstrong

Quote: "...Thou sure and firm-set earth,

Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear

The very stones prate of my whereabouts."

Next theme: Archaeology

Archaeology

How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?
I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we
have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce
hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year
or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year.
Hamlet Act 5 scene i

Booking a holiday

Theme: Booking a Holiday

Quote: "Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humour, and like enough to consent!" (As You Like It, ACT IV, scene i)



Next theme: Slippers

Theme: Slippers

Quote: "Pray, walk softly; do not heat thy blood." Pericles, Act IV, scene 1

Next theme: The peace movement

Theme: The peace movement

Quote: "...plant love among us!

Throng our large temples with the shows of peace,

And not our streets with war!"

(Coriolanus Act III sc iii)

Next theme: Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes