Theme: Marigold rubber gloves

Quote: "Gloves as sweet as damask roses" (A Winter's Tale Act IV Sc. 4)

Next theme: Birthday cards

Theme: Birthday cards

Quote: "I must go send some better messenger: I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, receiving them from such a worthless post." (Two Gentlemen of Verona, ACT I, scene i)



Next theme: Chastity belts

Chastity Belts

"my person, my extremest means,
Lie all unlock'd to your occasions" Merchant of Venice I,i

Next Theme: Bastille Day

Theme: Bastille Day

Quote: "It hath been the untimely emptying." (Macbeth, ACT IV, scene iii)

(Only one prisoner was inside when the mob stormed it)



Next theme: Clark Kent, alias Superman

Theme: Clark Kent, alias Superman

Quote: "I shall not need spectacles" (King Lear, Act I Scene II)

Next theme: Carl Jung

Theme: Carl Jung

Quote: "Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy?" (Henry IV Part II Act II sc ii)

Next theme: Frankie Howerd

Theme - Birthday Cards.

Age I do abhor thee, youth I do adore thee.

The Passionate Pilgrim

Next theme: Circle

We're on Frankie Howerd, Alan.

Frankie Howerd

"And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl"

Midsummer Nights Dream, II, i



Next Theme: Glasgow Rangers

Rangers - the gift that keeps on giving, I think this is their third time in the challenge!

Theme: Glasgow Rangers

Quote: "Nay, that were a punishment too good for them!" (Much Ado About Nothing - ACT III, scene iii)



Next theme: Enid Blyton's books banned from libraries on grounds of political correctness

Theme: Enid Blyton's books banned from libraries on grounds of political correctness

Quote: "And now I will unclasp a secret book,
And to your quick-conceiving discontents
I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,
As full of peril and adventurous spirit" (Henry IV Part I, Act I Scene III)

Next theme: Circle

Theme: Circle

Quote: "Why, how now, monsieur, what a life is this,

That your poor friends must woo your company?" (As You Like It Act II sc vii)

Next theme: The bell on Noddy's hat

Theme: The bell on Noddy's hat

Quote: "And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear" (Henry IV Part 2, Act 4, Scene 5)

Next theme: Big Ears

Theme: Big Ears

Quote: He wrings him by the ears. (Stage direction - The Taming of the Shrew Act I sc ii)

Next theme: Carl Jung *or* Sigmund Freud *or* Keira Knightley's jaw.

Bump.



Last attempt to revive interest in the Challenge. I've changed the theme yet again. This, my fourth attempt of the week, is inspired by "A Dangerous Method". Keira Knightley's chin is particularly good in this film. Positively Habsburgian.

Theme: Carl Jung/Sigmund Freud

"O,that way madness lies; let me shun that"

King Lear, Act 3 Scene 4.

Next Theme: The Naked Rambler

Theme: The Naked Rambler

Quote: "Whether your costard or my ballow be the harder, chill be plain with you!" (King Lear, ACT IV, scene vi)



Next theme: Beans on toast

Theme: Beans on toast

Quote: "Such wind as scatters young men through the world," (The Taming of the Shrew > Act I, scene II)

Next theme: Scrambled eggs

Theme: Scrambled Eggs

"Truly,thou art damned,like an ill roasted egg,all on one side"

As you like it, Act 3, Scene 2

Next theme: The Open Golf Championship

Theme: The Open Golf Championship

Quote: "Ruthless, vast, but gloomy Woods." (Titus Andronicus, ACT IV, scene i)




Next theme: Subbuteo

Theme: Subbuteo

Quote: "I have them at my fingers' ends" (Twelfth Night, Act I Scene III)

Next theme: Rosbif

Theme: Rosbif

What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? - Taming of the Shrew

Next theme: Traffic

Theme: Traffic

Quote: "This shoe, with the hole in it." (Two Gentlemen of Verona, ACT II, scene iii)





Next theme: Stephen Fry

Theme: Stephen Fry

Quote: "Do you hear, let them [the players] be well used; for they are the abstracts, and brief chronicles, of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph, than their ill report while you live." (Hamlet, Act II, sc ii)

Next theme: Nursery rhymes

[The quote for the golf was very clever, thanks.]

Theme: Russell Crowe

Quote: Marry come up, sweet Harry, and prithee tell me - what manner of creature is that lumpen Antipodean clodpoll who fancies himself a poet and who takes himself more seriously than Hotspur with a hundred ducats on the accumulator at the Blaydon Races? (Henry IV, Part 3).

Or perhaps:-

Hoy day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way? (Timon of Athens, Act 1, Sc 2)

Next theme: The Krankies

Before we go on to The Krankies we've a little matter of Nursery Rhymes to tackle AR (See above). Any ideas?

Theme: Nursery rhymes

Quote: "sung by children in succeeding times" (The Rape of Lucrece)

Next theme: The Krankies

Theme: The Krankies

Quote:
"Such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
Calls virtue hypocrite;
Takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets a blister there;
Makes marriage vows as false as dicers' oaths!"
(Hamlet, ACT III, scene iv)


Next theme: Ye Shiwen

Theme: Ye Shiwen

Quote:

"But, in short space,

It rained down fortune showering on your head:

And such a flood of greatness fell on you, -"

Or, for the more cynical:

"Then, with the losers let it sympathise,

For nothing can seem foul to those that win."

Both from Henry IV, Part I, Act V, sc i

(I find Henry IV full of useful quotes for this. Must actually read it properly soon.)

Next theme: Emigration

(My kids leave for Britain tonight.)

Theme: Emigration

"To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves" - Julias Caesar

Next theme: butterflies

Theme: butterflies

Quote: "be it to fly, to swim" (The Tempest, Act I Scene II)

Next theme: Olympic buses

Theme: Olympic Buses

"Ay now I am in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content"

As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 4


Next Theme: The Higgs-Bosun Particle

Theme: The Higgs-Bosun Particle

Quote: "And what hath mass or matter by itself..." (Troilus and Cressida Act I sc iii)

Next theme: The Medals Table (or the Alternative Medals Table, whichever you prefer)

Theme: the Alternative Medals Table

Quote: "from Scotland am I stolen" (King Henry VI Part 3, Act III Scene I)

Next theme: Einstein

Theme: Einstein

Quote: "But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a god-father." (Venus and Adonis)

(Einstein later regretted his initial endorsement of the atomic bomb's development based on his own theory)



Next theme: Boris Johnson as potential leader of the Conservative Party

Theme: Boris Johnson as potential leader of the Conservative Party

Quote: "He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit." (As You Like It, Act 5 Scene 4)

Next theme: The Daleks

Theme: The Daleks

"a crew of patches,rude mechanicals"

A Midsummer Nights Dream, Act 3 Scene 2

Next Theme: Cycling

Theme: Cycling

Quote: "What, at the wheels of Caesar art thou led in triumph?" (Measure for Measure Act III sc ii)

Next theme: Ladies Who Box

Charles: stay thy hands, thou art an amazon and fightest with the sword of Deborah.

To Joan of Arc after fighting and losing to her

Henry VI part one, act 1, scene ii.

Theme Calculators

Theme: Calculators

Quote: "Forsooth, a great arithmetician!" (Othello Act I sc i)

Next theme: Sarah Attar and Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani

Theme: Sarah Attar

Quote: "She is alone the Arabian bird." (Cymbeline, ACT I, scene vi)

Theme: Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani

Quote: "Her too." (Othello, ACT II, scene i)



Next theme: Mr Bean

Theme: Mr Bean

Quote: "Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
Do outrage and displeasure to himself?"(The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, scene IV)

Next theme: dead pop stars.

Theme: Dead pop stars

Quote: "A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench." (Henry VI Part III, ACT IV, scene viii)
















and of course ...





Next theme:

Theme: The Spice Girls

"It is the lark that sings so out of tune
staining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps"

Romeo and Juliet; Act 3, Scene 5.

Next Theme: Going to the Dentist

Theme: Going to the Dentist

Quote: "overcome by doubt and bloodless fear,
With cold-pale weakness numbs each feeling part" (Venus and Adonis)

Next theme: airline baggage allowance

Theme: Airline baggage allowance.



Lay aside life-harming evidence

And entertain a cheerful disposition"

Richard II

Next theme: Gondola

Theme: Airline baggage allowance

Quote: the dearer by I know how much an ounce. (The Winter's Tale: act IV, scene iv)


Damn it Alan, beaten by a whisker!

Theme: Gondola

Quote: "False-creeping craft." (The Rape of Lucrece)



Next theme: Virgin trains

Theme: Virgin Trains

"that you were made of is metal to make virgins"

All's Well That Ends Well, Act 1 Scene 1

Next Theme: Skiing

Theme: Skiing

Quote: "Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
And fan our people cold." (Macbeth, Act I Scene II)

P.S. Good quote ferval re 'Airline baggage allowance'.

Next theme: beaten by a whisker

Theme: Beaten by a whisker

Quote: "What didst thou lose, Jack?" (Henry IV Part I Act III sc iii)

or

"Purr!" (King Lear Act III sc vi)

Next theme: Ungracious losers