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Random funny time waster. Happy Friday!!


http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html

"Thou fusty rude-growing barnacle"

Thou spongy pox-marked varlot!

Why thou globe of sinful continents, what a life dost thou lead!

tak bah tak beh (i think that's it )

[Thou art] spacious in the possession of dirt.

I do noth has to undertake any such learned readings in order to conjure one's insultment from such language. Doth thou cast a shadow upon the plaent with thy doom and hesitation of mental health?

I've touched on this before, but Shakespeare was, in fact, not Shakespeare, but...

The evidence is against Will Shaksper's ever having attended school. By the time he was thirteen his father could not appear in public because of the creditors pursuing him. There was no leisure then or later for him to acquire a fragment of Shakespeare's attainments. With the burden of a wife at eighteen, he had a child six months after the wedding, three children by the age of 21. There is no evidence that he left the rude village in which he grew up until his late twenties. In any case, it must be supposed that he would have arrived in London speaking a broad dialect unintelligible there. No line of poetry ascribed to Shakespeare dates before Shaksper's 26th year. If he were Shakespeare he would have been the most stupid poet of consequence we know of. (He would also have been the least educated, even conceding his defenders' claims respecting his schooling.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/debates/ogburnarticle.html

7, you're a killjoy. Just click the insult generator and post something funny. Jeesh!!

7 Wishes wrote:I've touched on this before, but Shakespeare was, in fact, not Shakespeare, but...

The evidence is against Will Shaksper's ever having attended school. By the time he was thirteen his father could not appear in public because of the creditors pursuing him. There was no leisure then or later for him to acquire a fragment of Shakespeare's attainments. With the burden of a wife at eighteen, he had a child six months after the wedding, three children by the age of 21. There is no evidence that he left the rude village in which he grew up until his late twenties. In any case, it must be supposed that he would have arrived in London speaking a broad dialect unintelligible there. No line of poetry ascribed to Shakespeare dates before Shaksper's 26th year. If he were Shakespeare he would have been the most stupid poet of consequence we know of. (He would also have been the least educated, even conceding his defenders' claims respecting his schooling.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/debates/ogburnarticle.html

Ugh - read it. So many holes I can pick in it - and I'm sure since it was writen in 1974, I won't be the first. The author has an appalling understanding of Elizabethan class structure, politics, fiscal policies, education, law and linguistics.

This is just one handy example of it. I've read two separate books on the subject, and they're quite interesting.

Thou mangled ill-breeding harpy!