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

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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)

Yes, there have been one or two close calls.

Theme: Rebekah Brooks

Quote: "Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them" Antony and Cleopatra (Act IV Scene VIII)

Next theme: Blood moon

The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;
The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth
And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change.
Richard II A 2 s iv

false prophets

Theme: False Prophets

Quote: "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"

As You Like It; Act 5, Scene 1.

Next Theme: Bankers' bonuses

O my Christian ducats! Justice, the law, my ducats!
(closer to RBS execs finding that the government has refused permission to pay them more than 100% of annual salary as bonuses, perhaps?)

Merchant of Venice Act II scene 8

next :
The circus comes to town (it just has to ours)

Theme: The circus comes to town

Quote: "O weary night, O long and tedious night."
(Midsummer Night's Dream, ACT III, scene ii)

Next theme: Manchester United's sacking of David Moyes

Theme: Manchester United's sacking of David Moyes

Quote: "How poor are they that have not patience!
              What wound did ever heal, but by degrees."
(Othello: Act II, scene iii)   

Next theme: Horses in warfare

Theme: Horses in warfare

Quote: "Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse.
Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power " Richard III (Act V Scene III)

Next theme: Tarantula Hawk Wasps and/or Epomis Beetle Larvae

Theme: Tarantula Hawk Wasps and/or Epomis Beetle Larvae

Quote: "... whereon it must expire, consumed with that which it was nourish'd by."
(Sonnet 73)


Next theme:

Theme: Tony Bliar

Quote: he does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such a thing as 'tis. I can hardly forbear hurling things at him. Twelfth Night, Act III, scene II
Oops, forgot that!
Next theme: What makes a gentleman?

"A gentleman of noble parentage,
Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,
Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man"
Romeo and Juliet, III,5

Next theme:
Dracula

Theme : Dracula

Quote: "I would not be the party that should desire you to touch him, for his biting is immortal; those that do die of it do seldom or never recover."
(Antony and Cleopatra, ACT V, scene ii)



Next theme: George Clooney

Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise.
Hamlet 3 II

Remaking "Dad's Army"

Theme: Remaking "Dad's Army"

Quote: "If our betters play at that game, we should not dare to imitate them"
(Timon of Athens, ACT I, scene ii)


Next theme: Saint John Paul II

Theme: Saint John Paul II

Quote: "to Poland; For so I have strew'd it in the common ear,
And so it is received. Now, pious sir,  
You will demand of me why I do this?" Measure For Measure (Act I Scene III)

Next theme: Annual Vehicle Test

Theme: Annual Vehicle Test

Quote: "Mechanic slaves with greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall uplift us."
(Antony and Cleopatra, ACT V, scene ii)


Next theme: Ukip

theme: Ukip

Quote: O, let me have no subject enemies,
When adverse foreigners affright my towns
With dreadful pomp of stout invasion!  
(King John, ACT IV, scene II)

Next theme: Celebrity chefs

Theme: Celebrity chefs

Quote:               O, he's as tedious
As a tired horse, a railing wife;
Worse that a smoky house: I had rather live
With cheese and garlick in a windmill, far
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
In any summer-house in Christendom.

Next theme: Delays in the Olympic build in Rio

[Annual Vehicle Test -you should be so lucky; we have ours every six months, unless they are under 10 years old or less. And that's only just being brought it this year.  My car barely gets driven between one test and the next!]

Theme: Delays in the Olympic build in Rio


Quote: "O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with my heels."
(Much Ado About Nothing, ACT III, scene iv)


Next theme: Star Wars Episode VII

Theme: Star Wars VII

Quote:"The peace of heaven is theirs that draw their swords, in such a just and charitable war"
(King John; Act II, Scene I)

Next Theme: Jeremy Clarkson

Hamlet Act III scene 4 "a foolish prating knave"

Binge drinkers

Next theme: Binge drinkers

Quote:  "No, no, the drink, the drink!...
The drink, the drink! I am poison'd." [Dies.]

(Hamlet Act V sc ii)

Next theme: England's £199 World Cup suits from Marks and Spencer

Theme: England's £199 World Cup suits from Marks and Spencer

Quote: "Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost" Sonnet 91

Next theme: Mayfly

Theme: Mayfly

Quote: "And summer's lease hath all too short a date."
(Sonnet 18)


Next theme: Conchita Wurst

• Oliver. Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man.
  
• Rosalind. So I do; but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by
  right.
  

As you like it Act 4 Scene III

And the next : Holidays

Theme: Holidays (vacations)

Quote:
"John of Gaunt. Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure.
Henry IV. My heart will sigh when I miscall it so, which finds it an enforced pilgrimage!"

(Richard II, ACT I, scene iii)


Next theme: Max Clifford

Theme: Max Clifford

Quote: "Clifford: Here burns my candle out" King Henry VI Part III (Act II Scene VI)

Next theme: Giro d'Italia / Tour de France / Vuelta a Espana

Theme: Giro d'Italia / Tour de France / Vuelta a Espana


Quote: "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick."
(Romeo and Juliet, ACT V, scene iii)


Next theme: John Travolta

Since everyone's obviously taking a breather from the challenge I thought maybe some half-time diversion might be in order. Today's Guardian Quiz was about money and Shakespeare. Simply match the quote to the play (answers to be sent in a plain brown envelope to the Res-His adminitsrator, fiver enclosed) ...

"Put money in thy purse"

• King Lear
  Measure for Measure
  Othello

"Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on"

• Much Ado About Nothing
  The Merry Wives of Windsor
  Henry V

"He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends"

• Coriolanus
  As You Like It
  Cymbeline

"Will you take eggs for money?"

• The Winter's Tale
  Macbeth
  King Lear

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"

• Twelfth Night
  Romeo and Juliet
  Hamlet

"How quickly nature falls into revolt / When gold becomes her object!"

• Henry IV Part II
  Julius Caesar
  Antony and Cleopatra

"All the wealth I had ran in my veins"

• The Merchant of Venice
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  The Tempest

"Come to the pedlar; Money's a medler"

• The Winter's Tale
  Richard III
  Hamlet

"Put money in thy purse"

• King Lear
  Measure for Measure
  Othello
  

"Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on"

• Much Ado About Nothing
  The Merry Wives of Windsor
  Henry V
  

"He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends"

• Coriolanus
  As You Like It
  Cymbeline
  

"Will you take eggs for money?"

• The Winter's Tale
  Macbeth
  King Lear
  

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"

• Twelfth Night
  Romeo and Juliet
  Hamlet
  

"How quickly nature falls into revolt / When gold becomes her object!"

• Henry IV Part II
  Julius Caesar
  Antony and Cleopatra
  

"All the wealth I had ran in my veins"

• The Merchant of Venice
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  The Tempest
  

"Come to the pedlar; Money's a medler"

• The Winter's Tale
  Richard III
  Hamlet
  

What a horrid little swot I am.


Next theme: Horrid Little Swots

Theme: Horrid little swots

"O, when she is angry she is keen and shrewd;
She was a vixen when she went to school,
And though she be but little, she is fierce."

A Midsummer Night's Dream; Act III, SceneII

Next Theme: Christmas

Theme: Christmas

Quote: "Pretend some alteration in good will"
(Henry VI, Part I, ACT IV, scene i)



Next theme: Queuing overnight for Boxing Day sales

Theme: Queuing overnight for Boxing Day sales

Quote: Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow:
The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,
Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,
Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:

Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene IV

Next Theme: Hangovers

Next theme: Hangovers

Quote: By the mass, I have drunk too much sack at supper.

(Henry IV Part II Act II scene iv)

Next Theme: Sony Pictures Entertainment

Theme: Sony Pictures Entertainment (and their climb-down in the face of supposed "cyber-terrorism")


Quote: "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, 
And thus the native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, 
And enterprises of great pith and moment 
With this regard their currents turn awry 
And lose the name of action."

(Hamlet, ACT III, scene i)

Next theme: Methane on Mars

Theme: Methane on Mars

Quote: "Hover through the fog and filthy air" Macbeth (Act I Scene I)

Next theme: John Travolta

Theme: John Travolta

Quote: "God give them wisdom that have it; and those
that are fools, let them use their talents."

(Twelfth Night, ACT I, scene v)


Next theme: The 1914 truce football match that probably never happened

Theme: The 1914 truce that probably never happened.

Quote: That's the least fear; for, by the semblance of their white flags, display'd, they bring us peace
And come to us as favourers not as foes.
(Pericles, Prince of Tyre, act I, scene IV)

But more sceptically:

Quote What hath this day deserved? What hath it done,
That it in golden letters should be set
Among the high tides in the calendar?
(King John, act III, scene I)

Next theme: couriers.

Theme: Couriers

Quote: "He came too late."

(Merchant of Venice, ACT II, scene viii)


However, in the spirit of good will to all men - even couriers, Shakespeare also demonstrated their traditional conscientiousness and best of intentions regarding punctuality and getting the order right, as this typical scene from a Jacobean dispatch office depicts:

"Clown (the dispatcher). Fear not thou, man, thou shalt lose nothing here.
Autolycus (the courier). I hope so, sir; for I have about me many parcels of charge."

(Winter's Tale, ACT IV, scene iv)


Next theme: Christmas sweaters

Theme: Christmas sweaters

Quote: New horrors come upon him, Like our strange garments


Next theme: Jeremy Corbyn

Theme: Jeremy Corbon

Quote: "Discuss unto me; art thou officer?
Or art thou base, common and popular?"
(Henry V, ACT IV, scene i)

Next Theme: Andy Murray and the Davis Cup

Theme: Andy Murray and the Davis Cup

Well, here's the obvious if not very original one:

Quotation: When we have matched our rackets to these balls,
We will in France, by God's grace, play a set
Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.

King Harry, in Henry V (Act 1 Scene ii)

Next Theme: Throwing Up in the North Sea (on Christmas Day in the morning):

Theme: Throwing Up in the North Sea (on Christmas Day in the morning)

Quote: "swoon! Why look you pale?  
  Sea-sick, I think, coming from Muscovy." Love's Labours Lost (Act V Scene II)

Next Theme: Welsh Springer Spaniels

Theme:  Welsh Springer Spaniels

Quote:  "As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept 
All by the name of dogs:curs,"  Macbeth III,I


Next theme:  Space Junk

Theme: Space Junk

Quote: "...this poor trash..." - Othello, Act 2 Scene 1

Next theme: The Queen's birthday

Theme: The Queen's Birthday

Quote: "This policy and reverence of age makes the world
bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us
till our oldness cannot relish them. I begin to find an idle
and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways,
not as it hath power, but as it is suffer'd."

(King Lear, ACT I, scene ii)

Next theme: Jamie Vardy

Theme: Jamie Vardy
Quote:   "Nor tripped neither, you base football player"



King Lear; Act 1, Scene 4.

Next Theme: Brexit

Theme: Brexit

Quote: "Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?"

(Pericles, ACT IV, scene iii)


Next theme: The Qatar World Cup building programme

Theme: The Qatar World Cup building programme

Quote: "the envy of less happier lands" Richard II (Act II Scene I)

Next theme: HMS Caroline

Theme: HMS Caroline

Quote: "...like a lady as thou art..." (Henry IV Part 1, Act 3 Scene 1)

Next theme: Moira Stuart