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)

Theme: Gastric flu (winter vomiting bug)

Quote: "An untimely ague
Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber" (Henry VIII, Act I Scene I)

Next theme: All Souls Day

Theme: All Souls Day

Quote: "That's your superstition."
(Pericles, ACT III, scene i)




Next theme: Danny Baker

Theme: Danny Baker

"Stand not upon the order of your going.

But go at once."

(Macbeth)

Next theme: Super market.

Theme: Super markets.

“Put money in thy purse”

Othello Act 1, Scene 3.


Next theme: the stock exchange

Theme: The stock exchange

Quote: And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity? (King Henry VI, part III, Act II, scene VI)


Next theme: Call centres.

Theme: call centers.

Quote: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.... (Macbeth Act 4, scene 1, 44–49)


Next theme: bad Christmas cracker jokes.

Theme: Bad Christmas cracker jokes

Quote: "This jest shall cost me some expense." (The Comedy of Errors Act III scene i)

Next theme: Christmas Tree Syndrome

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3313534/Allergic-to-Christmas-Bah-humbug.html

Theme: Christmas Tree Syndrome

Quote: "Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not endure a further view." (Antony and Cleopatra, ACT III, scene x)



Next theme: Knitted jumpers with christmas themed designs

Theme: Knitted jumpers with christmas themed designs

Quote: "What comes the wool to?" (Winter's Tale, Act IV Scene III)

Next theme: The Mayan Prophecy

Theme: The Mayan Prophecy

Quote: All:
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Second Witch:
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. …"MACBETH", Act IV, Scene I…

Next theme: New years resolutions.

Theme: New years resolutions

Quote: "What promise, chuck?" (Othello, ACT III, Scene iv)



Next theme: The price of truffles

Theme:The price of truffles

Quote: No care, no stop! so senseless of expense (Timon of Athens, Act II, scene II)

Next theme: panto

Theme: panto

Quote: "brawn shall play dame" (Henry IV Part I, Act II Scene IV)

Next theme: hydraulic fracturing, or fracking

Theme: hydraulic fracturing or fracking

Quote: "What raging of the seas! shaking of earth!

Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors,

Divert and crack, rend and deracinate

The unity and married calm of states

Quite from their fixture!"

(Troilus and Cressida Act I sc iii)

Next theme: Paul Emsley's portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge

Theme: Paul Emsley's portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge

Quote:
"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
You jig, you amble, and you lisp; you nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance.
Go to, I'll no more on't! it hath made me mad.
I say, we will have no more marriages. Those that are married already - all but one - shall live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go. Exit!"
(Hamlet, ACT III, scene i)


Next theme: Country brought to a halt after 10 centimetres of snow.

Theme: Country brought to a halt after 10 centimetres of snow

Quote: "winter's tyranny" (Henry IV Part II, Act I Scene III)

Next theme: performance-enhancing drugs

Performance Enhancing Drugs

" have seen a medicine
That's able to breathe life into a stone,
Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary
With spritely fire and motion;"

All's Well that Ends Well, II, 1



Next topic: Michael Winner

Theme: Michael Winner

Quote: "Thou shalt not die for lack of a dinner."
(As You Like It, ACT II, scene vi)


Next theme: Harrison Ford

Theme: Harrison Ford
Quote: Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves, (Titus Andronicus, Act V, scene I)

Next theme: Donkey burgers

Theme: Donkey burgers

Quote: "to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass" (Troilus and Cressida, Act V Scene I)

Next theme: Russian meteor strike filmed on car dashboard cameras

Theme: Russian meteor strike filmed on car dashboard cameras

Quote: "Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:
It is some meteor... (Romeo and Juliet Act III sc v)

Next theme: Windows 8

Theme: Windows 8

Quote: "Brazen Gates"
(Henry VI, Part III, ACT II, scene iii)


Next theme: Scottish independence

Theme: Scottish independence

Quote: "any time these three hundred years." (Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I Scene I)

Next theme: Francois Mitterand

Theme: Francois Mitterand

Quote "You came, I think, from France?
Alls Well that Ends Well, III, 5

Next Theme: Shergar

Theme: Shergar

Quote: "Dogs must eat."
(Coriolanus, Act I, scene i)


Next theme: Rainy bank holidays

Nice to see this thread resurrected. I will get to it in the next few days. At least I understand what rainy bank holidays are (not that any holidays here are referred to as 'bank' holidays. We only have holidays for a reason - Christmas, Waitangi Day, Anzac, Queen's Birthday (held on some king's birthday), Labour Day, etc.

Theme: Rainy bank holidays

Quote: "Hence! Home you idle creatures, get you home!
Is this a holiday?" (Julius Caesar Act I sc I)

Next theme: Grockles

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-is-the-origin-of-the-word-grockle

Theme: Grockles

Quote:
"I understand a fury in your words.
But not the words."
(Othello, ACT IV, scene ii)


Next theme: Operation Yewtree

Operation Yewtree
"On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen;(25)
That
shall she, marry; "
Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 Scene III

Next theme: The Derby

Theme: G8 Summit

Quote: "Here's eight that must take hands..." (As You Like It Act V scene iv)

Next theme: Alternative medicine

A musical interlude while we're thinking ...

Theme: Alternative medicine
Quote: Work on, my medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught; (Othello, Act IV, scene 1).

Next theme: Midsummer

Theme: Midsummer


Quote: "Short night to-night, and length thyself tomorrow." (The Passionate Pilgrim)




Next theme: Justin Bieber

Theme: Justin Bieber 

Quote: "Come, warble, come." (As You Like It, Act II Scene V)

Next theme: St John's Eve

Theme: "St John's Night"

Quote: "Hero had turn'd nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night!"
(As You Like It, ACT IV, scene i)

Next theme: Oscar Pistorius

Theme: Oscar Pistorius

Quote:"Four legs and two voices; a most delicate monster"
(The Tempest; Act 2, Scene2)

Next Theme: The Heartbleed Bug

Theme: The Heartbleed Bug

Quote: “The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”
(Othello, ACT III, scene iii)

Next theme: David Moyes

Theme: David Moyes

Quote:

Am I so round with you as you with me,
That like a football you do spurn me thus?
You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither:
If I last in this service, you must case me in leather.

(The Comedy of Errors Act II sc i)

Next theme: Being driven mad by bloody Clerihews.

Theme: Being driven mad by bloody clarihews (or even Clerihews).


Quote: "Marry, I cannot show it in rhyme; I have tried: I can find out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby,' an innocent rhyme; for 'scorn,' 'horn,' a hard rhyme; for 'school,' 'fool,' a babbling rhyme; very ominous endings: no, I WAS NOT BORN UNDER A RHYMING PLANET!"
(Much Ado About Nothing, ACT V, scene ii)

Next theme: ABBA

Theme: ABBA

Quote: "I have a reasonable good ear in music"
A Midsummer Nights Dream; Act 4, Scene1.

Next Theme: The Oscars

Theme: The Oscars

Quote: "He would drown the stage with tears and cleave the general ear with horrid speech"
(Hamlet, ACT II, scene ii)

Next theme: Scottish Inependence

Theme: Scottish Independence

Quote: "Stands Scotland where it did?"
Macbeth; Act IV, Scene III


Next Theme: Vladimir Putin

Added Bonus: "I have always looked on Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland" Sydney Smith

Theme: Vladimir Putin

Quote: "This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest; you have loved him well, though He hath not touched you yet!"
(Macbeth, ACT IV, scene iii)

Next theme: The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil

Theme:The 2014 FIFA World Cup

Quote:"I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it."
(As You Like It, ACT 1, scene 1)

Next theme: Easter eggs

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


Lear act I scene 4


Retirement

Theme: Retirement

Quote:
"Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."
(Cymbeline, ACT IV, scene ii)

Next theme: Badger culling

Theme: Badger culling

Quote: "a red murrain" (Troilus and Cressida, Act II Scene I)

Next theme: Trolls (Norwegian folklore ones - not internet ones)

Theme: Trolls (folklore variety)

Quote: "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes"

(Macbeth; Act 4 Scene 1)

Next Theme: posting on messageboards when you're supposed to be working.

Theme: posting on messageboards when you're supposed to be working

Quote: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly!"
(Macbeth, ACT I, scene vii)


Next theme: Rebekah [sic] Brooks