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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:27 pm | |
| 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 |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:52 pm | |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:07 pm | |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:41 pm | |
| OK then, let's change it to someone far more interesting.
Next theme: Fabio Capello |
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Doctaskhan Quaestor
Posts : 16 Join date : 2012-01-06 Location : Marietta GA USA
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:26 am | |
| - Temperance wrote:
- Theme: Boris Johnson
Quote: "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." (Twelfth Night: Act I sc v)
Theme: Kate Moss Quote: I would rather be in the company of a witty fool than a foolish wit. |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-28
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:55 am | |
| Will a stage direction do?
Fabio Capello
"Exit pursued by a bear" Winter's Tale Act 3 scene iii
Health Reform Bill |
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MadNan Praetor
Posts : 135 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : Saudi Arabia/UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:38 pm | |
| Topic: Health Reform Bill
Quote: The safety and health of this whole state; And therefore must his choice be circumscribed: Unto the voice and yielding of that body: Whereof he is the head. Hamlet, Act 1 Scene iii.
Next topic:
Time Team |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:47 pm | |
| Theme: Time Team
Quiote: "The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral..."
(Hamlet Act II sc ii)
Next theme: David Starkey |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:14 pm | |
| Theme: David Starkey
Quote: "Sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy." (Love's Labour's Lost, ACT V, scene i)
Next theme: Michael Wood |
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MadNan Praetor
Posts : 135 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : Saudi Arabia/UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:55 pm | |
| Theme Michael Wood
Quote "Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history" (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc i)
Next theme
The Oscars |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:04 pm | |
| Theme: The Oscars
Quote: "Well, here is my leg." (Henry IV Part I Act II sc iv)
Next Theme: Internet Service Providers |
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normanhurst Triumviratus Rei Publicae Constituendae
Posts : 426 Join date : 2011-12-28
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:22 pm | |
| Thank heaven you managed to pull us through that one temps... |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:27 pm | |
| Theme: Internet Service Providers
Quote: "Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead." (Richard III, ACT IV, scene ii)
Next theme: Davy Jones of The Monkees |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:17 am | |
| Theme: Davy Jones of The Monkees
Quote: "Dead." (Antony and Cleopatra Act I sc ii)
Next theme: Norman's fruit cake. |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:42 am | |
| Theme: Norman's fruit cake
Quote: "Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour." (Richard II, ACT I, scene iii)
Next theme: Billy Connolly |
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Caro Censura
Posts : 1518 Join date : 2012-01-09
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:09 pm | |
| Theme: Billy Connolly
Quote: "When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room." (As You Like It, Act III, sc iii)
Next theme: the Sun on Sunday |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-28
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:31 am | |
| The Sun on Sunday
"Doubt that the Sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar" Hamlet 2, ii
Budget day |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:31 am | |
| Theme: Budget Day
Quote: "Too little payment for so great a debt." (The Taming of the Shrew, ACT V, scene ii)
Next theme: Tickets for the London Olympics 2012 |
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MadNan Praetor
Posts : 135 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : Saudi Arabia/UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:08 pm | |
| Theme: Tickets for the London Olympics
In every mess have folly and the feeders: (A Winters Tale: Act 4)
Next Theme: Jamaica |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-28
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:07 am | |
| Jamaica
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
The Tempest, Act 3 scene ii
Ambushes |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:21 am | |
| Theme: Ambushes
Quote: "I am surprised with an uncouth fear; A chilling sweat o'er-runs my trembling joints: My heart suspects more than mine eye can see." (Titus Andronicus, ACT II, scene iii)
Next theme: What's left of ferval's garden |
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Triceratops Censura
Posts : 4377 Join date : 2012-01-05
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:52 pm | |
| - nordmann wrote:
Next theme: What's left of ferval's garden "I know a place where the wild thyme blows where oxlips and the nodding violet grows quite over canopied with luscious woodbine with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine" A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 5, Scene1. Next Theme: Glasgow Rangers FC |
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Triceratops Censura
Posts : 4377 Join date : 2012-01-05
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:43 pm | |
| No takers?.
"The game is up"
Cymbelline Act 3 Scene3
Next Theme: Party Politcal Conferences. |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:52 pm | |
| ... was tempted to go for the "sound and fury signifying nothing" one, but I'll save it for something more apt. What about:
Theme: Party Political Conferences
Quote: "You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers, That bear this mutual heavy load of moan, Now cheer each other in each other's love Though we have spent our harvest." (Richard III, ACT III, scene ii)
Next theme: The Miliband Brothers |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-28
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:43 am | |
| The Mili Band of Brothers
We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
Comedy of Errors Act V s i |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:54 am | |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-28
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:52 am | |
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MadNan Praetor
Posts : 135 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : Saudi Arabia/UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:31 pm | |
| Usurpers
"For though usurpers sway the rule awhile, Yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs. Henry VI Part 3 3.3
Next theme
DNA |
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Caro Censura
Posts : 1518 Join date : 2012-01-09
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:42 pm | |
| Theme: DNA
Quote: "What a piece of work is a man!...how infinite in faculty! in form, and moving, how express and admirable...and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" Hamlet Act II, sc ii
Next theme: Sight-seeing |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:35 am | |
| Theme: Sight-seeing
Quote: "To the monument...
To the monument!". (Antony and Cleopatra Act IV sc xiii)
Next theme: Monumental hangovers. |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:46 am | |
| From the same play and act ...
Theme: Monumental hangovers
Quote: "I am dying, Egypt, dying. Give me some wine, and let me speak a little!" (Antony and Cleopatra, ACT IV, scene xv)
Next theme: Nuns |
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Caro Censura
Posts : 1518 Join date : 2012-01-09
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:36 pm | |
| Theme: Nuns
Quote: "Thou sober-suited matron[s], all in black,
And learn me how to lose a winning match,
Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods."
(Romeo and Juliet Act III sc ii)
Next theme: the gallows |
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Triceratops Censura
Posts : 4377 Join date : 2012-01-05
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:17 am | |
| Theme: the gallows
"The gallows-maker;for that frame outlives a thousand tenants"
Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1
Next Theme; Hosepipe ban |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:34 am | |
| Theme: Hosepipe ban
Quote: "In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still!" (Titus Andronicus, ACT III, scene i)
Next theme: Vestal Virgin High Priestesses |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Mar 17, 2012 2:09 am | |
| Next theme: Vestal Virgin High Priestesses
Quote: "We'll set thy statue in some holy place,
And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint:
Employ thee, then, sweet virgin, for our good." (Henry VI Part I Act III sc iii)
Next theme: State Banquets at the White House |
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Triceratops Censura
Posts : 4377 Join date : 2012-01-05
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Mar 17, 2012 2:26 am | |
| Theme: State Banquets at the White House
"Eight wild boars roasted whole for breakfast, but twelve persons there" Anthony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene1
Next theme, Gambling |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:02 am | |
| Theme: Gambling
Quote: "Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book, and it is wonderful." (Merry Wives of Windsor Act III sc i)
Next theme: Mothering Sunday |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:14 am | |
| Theme: Mothering Sunday
Quote: "Irreligious piety!" (Titus Andronicus, ACT I, scene i)
Next theme: Edgar Allan Poe |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:37 am | |
| Theme: Edgar Allan Poe
Quote: "The Raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fateful entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements." (Macbeth Act I sc v)
Next theme: The Archbishop of Canterbury |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:26 am | |
| Theme: The Archbishop of Canterbury
Quote: "Bishop, farewell!" (Henry VI Part III, ACT IV, scene v)
Next theme: The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:01 am | |
| Theme: The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
Quote: "Here's a small trifle of wives. Alas, fifteen wives is nothing! Eleven widows and nine maids is a simple coming-in for one man."
(The Merchant of Venice Act II sc ii)
Next theme: Speaking in tongues |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:06 am | |
| Theme: Speaking in tongues
Quote: "Endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain bibble babble." (Twelfth Night, ACT IV, scene ii)
Next theme: The Stone of Scone |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:19 am | |
| Theme: The Stone of Scone
Quote: "Will you to Scone?" (Macbeth Act II sc ii)
Next theme: Fruity scones |
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Caro Censura
Posts : 1518 Join date : 2012-01-09
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:30 am | |
| Theme: Fruity scones
Quote: "Fetch more spices, nurse.
Nurse: They call for dates and quinces in the pastry." (Romeo and Juliet: Act IV, sc iv
Next theme: Rock-climbing
(Must remember not to waste too much time on these. I spent ages looking for a suitable quote on Latter Day Saints, and then it's too late!) |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-28
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:32 am | |
| Same here - I'd just found the same quote viz:
Fruity scones
"They call for dates and quinces in the pastry."
Romeo and Juliet Act 4, Sc iv |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:16 pm | |
| Theme: Rock climbing
Quote: "Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high." (Henry VI Part II, ACT II, scene i)
Next theme: William Topaz McGonagall |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:04 am | |
| Theme: William Topaz McGonagall
Quote: "Was it the proud, full sail of his great verse...
Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write
Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?" (Sonnet LXXXVI)
Next theme: Squabbles |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:02 pm | |
| Theme: Squabbles
Quote: "A Norman was't?" (Hamlet, ACT IV, scene vii)
Next theme: Jenson Button |
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Gilgamesh of Uruk Censura
Posts : 1560 Join date : 2011-12-28
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:03 am | |
| Jenson Button
we are not overhappy; on Fortune's cap we are not the very Button.
Hamlet A2 sii
Lewis Hamilton |
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nordmann Nobiles Barbariæ
Posts : 7223 Join date : 2011-12-26
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:15 am | |
| Theme: Lewis Hamilton
Quote: "And thou shalt be the third." (Henry VI Part III, ACT V,scene i)
Next theme: John Lewis |
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Temperance Virgo Vestalis Maxima
Posts : 6895 Join date : 2011-12-30 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: The Shakespeare Challenge! Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:24 pm | |
| Next theme: John Lewis
Quote: "Say that I linger'd with you at your shop." (The Comedy of Errors" Act III sc i)
Next theme: Insomnia |
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