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

Theme: Insomnia

Quote: "That I might sleep out this great gap of time ..." (Antony and Cleoptra, ACT I, scene v)


Next theme: Engelbert Humperdinck

Theme: Engelbert Humperdinck

Quote: "These tedious old fools!" (Hamlet Act II sc ii)

Next theme: Full English breakfast

Cadbury's Creme Eggs have obviously defeated you all, so a different theme has now been chosen. See above.

Theme: Full English Breakfast

Quote: "Some pigeons, Davy: a couple of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook." (Henry IV, Part 2, Act V, sc iii)

Next theme: British summertime (aka daylight saving)

Theme: British summertime (aka daylight saving)

Quote: "Light seeking light doth light of light beguile..." (Love's Labour's Lost Act I sc i)

Next theme: George Gershwin

Is that the lad who played The Riddler in the old Batman TV series?

Theme: Frank Gorshin George Gershwin

Quote: "Music? Ho! Music, such as charmeth sleep!" (A Midsummer Night's Dream, ACT IV, scene i)



Next theme: Wales, Six Nations Grand Slam winners

Theme: Wales, Six Nations Grand Slam winners

Quote: "And henceforth, let a Welsh correction teach you a good English condition. Fare ye well." (Henry V, Act V, sc ii)

I was tempted by A large top was kept in every village, to be whipped in frosty weather, that the peasants might be kept warm by exercise, and out of mischief while they could not work." from Twelth Night Act I sc iii, but I thought the Welsh part might be important to you.

Next theme: Art Galleries

Theme: Art Galleries

Quote: "For in my gallery thy picture hangs." (Henry VI Part I Act II sc iii)

Next theme: The Batmobile

Theme: The batmobile

Quote: "By the bright track of his fiery car, gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow. " (Richard III, ACT V, scene iii)




Next theme: Gobstoppers

Theme: Gobstoppers

Quote: "They...began

to loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little

More than a little is by much too much" (Henry IV, Part One, Act III, Sc ii)

Next theme: Fund-raising for the Conservatives

Theme: Conservative fund-raising

Quote: "Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy lads!" (A Winter's Tale, ACT IV, scene iv)





Next theme: RyanAir

Subject: RyanAir



Quote: "avaricious, false, deceitful,
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
That has a name. Macbeth 4.3 70-3

Next theme: Cornish pasties

Theme: Cornish pasties

Quote: "Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner." (Merry Wives of Windsor Act I sc i)

Next theme: Jane Austen

Theme: Jane Austen

Quote: "Much Ado About Nothing" (play title)



Next theme: Cinderella (or Jane Austen's "Persuasion" if you prefer)

Some muddling of texts here. Fanny Price, the long-suffering, but rather irritatingly virtuous heroine of "Mansfield Park", is usually viewed as Jane Austen's Cinderella creation. Anne Elliot ("Persuasion") is rather different. However...

Theme: Cinderella (or Jane Austen's "Persuasion" if you prefer)

Quote: "Beauty, truth and rarity,

Grace in all simplicity,

Here enclosed in Cinders lie." (The Phoenix and the Turtle)

Next theme: Panic-buying

Theme: Panic-Buying

Quote: How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object! (Henry IV Part Two, Act IV, sc v)



Next theme: Easter eggs

Easter Eggs

Give me an egg, nuncle, and I'll give thee two
crowns.


King Lear, Act i scene iv

the moon

Theme: The moon

Quote: "Well shone, Moon!" (A Midsummer Night's Dream Act V sc i)

Next theme: The Easter Bunny.

Theme: The Easter bunny

Quote: "...he capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verse, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May..." (Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, sc ii)

Next theme: Resurrection

Theme: Resurrection

Quote: "A most high miracle." (The Tempest Act V sc i)

Next theme: Russell's teapot.

Theme: Russell's teapot

Quote: "Yet who's so blind, but says he sees it not?" (Richard III, ACT III, scene vi)



Next theme: Tom Jones

Theme: Tom Jones

Quote: "His very hair is of the dissembling colour." (As You Like It Act III sc iv)

Next theme: Going bananas.

Theme: Going bananas

Quote: "Oh, that way madness lies." (King Lear, Act III, sc iv)

Next theme: Lizzie Borden

Theme: Lizzie Borden

Quote: "this hand of mine
Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand,
Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.
Within this bosom never enter'd yet
The dreadful motion of a murderous thought;
And you have slander'd nature in my form,
Which, howsoever rude exteriorly,
Is yet the cover of a fairer mind
Than to be butcher ..."
(King John, ACT IV, scene ii)

(despite contemporary and subsequent assumption to the contrary Elizabeth Borden was found innocent of the murder of her father and stepmother)


Next theme: Welsh rabbit

Not in the court of public opinion, so much, though. Apart from the maid, I think there was a lack of further available suspects.

Borden's illegitimate half brother was in town, had ready access to the house, had been trying unsuccessfully to extort money from his father, and had told friends recently that he would kill him. He also skipped town on the evening of the murders. This was not brought up at the trial but had been recorded by the police during their investigation. The "court of public opinion" is what sends innocent Irishmen to prison in Britain for twenty years or more.

Next theme: Welsh rabbit

Well, Elizabeth didn't go to prison at all. And I couldn't remember where she went after the trial but I see she stayed in her home town. She was either a very strong woman or the town accepted her innocence to a reasonable degree. I suppose staying put means you don't have to consider a new identity or people forever pointing at you.

If no one has taken up the new theme by my morning, I will give it a try but haven't time right now, sorry.

Theme: Welsh rabbit

Quote: "I had rather live

With cheese and garlick in a windmill, far

Than feed on cates." (Henry IV, Part One, Act III, sc i)

Next theme: Hair of the dog (or god as I typed first)

Theme: Hair of the dog

Quote: "Cure thy brains, now useless, boil'd within thy skull!" (The Tempest, ACT V, scene i)



Next theme: North Korea

Theme North Korea (rocket launch)



You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.
Cymbeline (1.2.26)



Next theme: Goal line technology

Theme: Goal line technology

Quote: "It doth appear you are a worthy judge." (Merchant of Venice Act IV sc i)

Next theme: The Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize

All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

(still Merchant of Venice, 3, vii)

Deportation

Theme: Deportation

Quote: "As for thee, boy, go get thee from my sight;

Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay." (Titus Andronicus Act III sc i)

Next theme: The Seven Deadly Sins

Theme: The Seven Deadly Sins

Quote: "Commit The oldest sins the newest kind of ways." Henry IV Part II, Act IV, sc v.

Next theme: Burning the cakes

Theme: Burning the cakes

"the making of the cake, the heating of the oven and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn" (Troilus and Cressida, Act 1 Scene 1)

Next theme: The hosepipe ban

Theme: The hosepipe ban

Quote: "Lawn as white as driven snow." (A Winter's Tale, ACT IV, scene iv)


Next theme: The Taliban

Theme Taliban

"I'll never pause again, never stand still,
Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine
Or fortune given me measure of revenge".

3 Henry VI (2.3.31-3)


Next theme: The Leveson Inquiry

Theme: The Leveson Inquiry:

"Words, words, words" (Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2)

Next theme: Traffic jams

Theme: Traffic jams

Quote: "Traffic confound thee, if the gods will not." (Timon of Athens Act I sc i)

Next theme: A.A.Gill

Theme: A.A. Gill

Quote: "Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither" (Hamlet, Act 2 Sc. 2)

Next theme: Mary Beard

Theme: Mary Beard

Quote: "Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile..." (King Lear Act IV sc ii)

Next theme: Tree pollen

Tree pollen is not a good theme - it was for hay fever sufferers only. May I give a quote and then (after sneezing several times) try again?

"How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted

In the distraction of this madding fever?"

(Sonnet 119)

Theme: Mary Beard

Quote: "Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile..." (King Lear Act IV sc ii)

Next theme: The supermoon or perigee-syzygy

Theme: The supermoon or perigree-whatsit...

Quote: “O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb" (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2)

Next theme: Greece

Theme: Greece

Quote: "The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!" (Troilus and Cressida Act II sc i)

Next theme: The Furies

Is that "The Furies" as in classical mythology or as in "... with Davey Arthur"? If the latter I have already several quotes which describe Finbar to a T.

Theme: Greece

Quote: "The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!" (Troilus and Cressida Act II sc i)

Next theme: The Fureys (Ballyfermot) or the Furies (Hades) or ex-President Sarkozy

Theme: Ex-president Sarkozy

Quote: "A silly dwarf." (Henry VI Part I, ACT II, scene iii)


Next theme: The Greek election results

Theme: The Greek election results

Quote: "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there

Where most it promises; and oft it hits

Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits." All's Well that Engs Well, Act II, sc i.

Next theme: Manchester United/Manchester City derby