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

Theme: Ungracious losers

Quote: "Losers have leave to ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues" (Titus Andronicus, ACT III, scene i)



Next theme: Precocious children in American films who we are expected to regard as "cute"

Theme: Precocious children in American films who we are expected to regard as "cute"

Quote: "You have seen
Sunshine and rain at once" (King Lear, Act IV Scene III)

Next theme: The Messines Ridge

Theme: The Messines Ridge

"But I will delve one yard below their mines,
And blow them to the moon"

Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 4

Next Theme: Julian Assange

Theme: Julian Assange

Quote: "There is no remedy, sir, but you must die: the general says, you that have so traitorously discovered the secrets of your army and made such pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can serve the world for no honest use; therefore you must die. Come, headsman, off with his head."

(All's Well That Ends Well Act IV sc iii)

Next theme: Belligerent corgis

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/20/queen-corgis-princess-bea-dog-attack-_n_1809363.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Theme: Belligerent corgis

Quote: "Is 'old dog' my reward? Most true, I have lost my teeth in
your service." (As You Like It, ACT I, scene i)




Next theme: Shiny toilet paper

Theme: Shiny toilet paper

Quote: Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind (The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, scene II

Next theme: Air freshener

Theme: Air freshener

Quote: "Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before." (Twelfth Night, Act I Scene I)

Next theme: Top Gun

Theme: Top Gun



Quote:
"It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
Should strike such terror to his enemies."
(Henry IV Part I, ACT II, scene iii)



Next theme: Pussy Riot

Theme: Pussy Riot

"Come, let's away to prison
We two alone will sing like birds in the cage"

King Lear; Act 5, Scene 3

Next Theme: Sir Alex Ferguson

Theme: Sir Alex Ferguson

Quote: "Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms."

Henry VI Part III, Act V sc iv
Or from the same play, Act III, sc i

"Let me embrace these sour adversities;
For wise men say it is the wisest course."

Next theme: putting on make-up

Theme: Putting on make-up

Quote:

"How easy is it for the proper-false
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!"

(Twelfth Night, ACT II, scene ii)




Next theme: Gurning

Theme: Gurning

Quote: "thou need'st but keep that countenance still" (Cymbeline, Act III Scene IV)

Next theme: Lemonade

Theme: Lemonade

Quote: Let me see thee froth and lime (Merry Wives of Windsor Act I, scene III)

Next theme: Irn-Bru

Theme: Irn-Bru

Quote: "Give not this rotten orange to your friend" (Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1)

Next theme: Mountain Dew

Theme: Mountain Dew

"Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them"

Othello; Act 1, Scene 2.

Next Theme: the Eurolottery

Theme: The Eurolottery

Quote: "The grosser manner of these world's delights
He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves:
To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die."

Love's Labours Lost, Act I, sc i

Next theme: Afghanistan

Excellent one, Caro!

Theme: Afghanistan

Quote: "There are few die well that die in a battle." (Henry V, Act IV Sc. 1)

Next theme: GCSE Results

Theme: GCSE Results

Quote:
"A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb."
(All's Well That Ends Well, ACT II, scene iii)




Next theme: Road-kill

Theme: Road-kill


Quote: "oft have I struck
Those that I never saw and struck them dead." ( King Henry VI, part II. Act IV, scene VII)


Next theme: Who done it

Theme: Who done it

Quote: "Richard III" (play title)

Next theme: Neil Armstrong

Next Theme: Neil Armstrong

"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:


Henry V, III, 1

Next Theme: Strip Billiards

Theme: Strip Billards

Quote:
"Good tickle-brain, Harry.
I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy
time, but also how thou art accompanied!"
(Henry IV, Part I, ACT II, scene iv)



Next theme: Lance Armstrong

Theme: Lance Armstrong



Quote:

"Now, master doctor, have you brought those drugs?"

Cymbeline, I, 5

Next Theme: The Borgias

Theme: The Borgias

Quote: "My name is Roderigo." (Othello, Act I Scene I)

Next theme: Strep Throat

Theme: Strep Throat

Quote: Be thy mouth or black or white
Tooth that poisons if it bite; (King Lear, Act III, sc vi)

Next theme: Moon craters

Theme: Moon craters

Quote:
"As barren as the banks of Libya, though, Apollo knows,
'Tis dry enough!"
(Troilus and Cressida, ACT I, scene iii)




Next theme: Mars Curiosity Rover

Theme: Mars Curiosity Rover.

you shall seek all day ere you find them; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.

Merchant of Venice.

Next theme: Planetary

Theme: "Planetary ..."

Quote: "Hanging is the word, sir!" (Cymbeline, ACT V, scene iv)



Next theme: The Offside Rule in Association Football

Theme: The Offside Rule in Association Football

Quote: "Good Lord, what madness rules in brain-sick men,
When, for so slight and frivolous a cause,
Such factious emulations shall arise." Henry VI, Part I, Act iv, sc i

(I never understand why the offside rule in soccer is considered to be difficult, certainly beyond the brains of poor dumb women to understand. Have they never tried to understand the offside rule in rugby?)

Next theme: wheel-chair rugby [changed my mind]

theme: wheel-chair rugby



"Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can
spin for her living".

Two Gentlemen of Verone, III, 1

Next theme: Medical Dictionaries

You know my father left me some prescriptions
Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading
And manifest experience had collected
For general sovereignty

All's Well That Ends Wello Act 1 scene iii



Government reshuffles

Theme: "Government reshuffles"

Quote: "He will give the devil his due."
(Henry IV Part I, ACT I, scene ii)



Next theme: "Angry" of Tunbridge Wells

That one calls for some rare Ben Jonson, surely? "Every man out of his humour"

Theme: "Angry" of Tunbridge Wells

Quote: "embattailed and rank'd in Kent" (King John, Act IV Scene II)

Next theme: Teddy Bears

Theme: Teddy Bears

Quote:
"But for the stuffing,—well, we are all mortal."
(Much Ado About Nothing, ACT I, scene i)





Next theme: Belated justice for the victims of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster

Theme: Belated justice for the victims of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster

Quote:

"Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such
offenders, and let Time try."

(As You like It, IV, I)

Next Theme: Car Park Attendants

Theme: Car Park Attendants (in Leicester)

Quote:
"I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,
My figured goblets for a dish of wood,
My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff,
My subjects for a pair of carved saints
And my large kingdom for a little grave,
A little, little grave, an obscure grave."
(Richard III, ACT III, scene iii)


Next theme: Salman Rushdie

Theme: Salman Rushdie

"Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming"

Midsummer Night's Dream I,2



Next theme: Donald Trump

Theme; Donald Trump

Quote: Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain! (Macbeth, Act IV, scene II)



Next Theme: Plebs

Theme: Plebs

Quote: "the rabblement hooted and clapped their chapped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked Caesar—for he swooned and fell down at it. And for mine own part, I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air." (Julius Caesar, Act I Scene II)

Next theme: Hale-Bopp Comet

Theme: Hale-Bopp Comet

"But you shall shine more bright in these contents

Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time"

(Sonnets)

Next theme: commandments

Theme: Commandments

Quote:
"Thou shalt think."
(Richard II, ACT V, scene i)



Next theme: Monty Python's Life of Brian

Theme: Monty Python's Life of Brian

Quote: "a naughty orator" (All's Well That Ends Well, Act V Scene III)

Next theme: Ulster Covenant

Theme: The Ulster Covenant

Quote:
"Ah, countrymen! if when you make your prayers,
God should be so obdurate as yourselves,
How would it fare with your departed souls?"
(Henry VI, PART II, ACT IV, scene vii)



Next theme: Jim'll Fix It

Theme: Jim'll Fix It

"Your wives,your daughters,your matrons and your maids could not fill up the cistern of my lust.*"

Macbeth; Act 4 Scene 3

Next Theme Malala Yousafzai

*allegedly

Theme: Malala Yousafzai

Quote: "I have suffered like a girl" (Pericles, Act V Scene I)

Next theme: Tutankhamun

Theme: Tutankhamun

Quote: "BLEST BE YE MAN YT SPARES THES STONES AND
CURST BE HE YT MOVES MY BONES" (Shakespeare's self-penned epitaph)



Next theme: Sir David Attenborough

Theme: Sir David Attenborough

Quote: "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

Troilus and Cressida Act 3, Scene 3

Next Theme:Hurricane Sandy

Theme: Hurricane Sandy

Quote: "The storm is up, and all is on the hazard." (Julius Caesar Act V sc i)

Next theme: Gastric flu (winter vomiting bug)