...that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep. No more. And by sleep to say we mean to end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come? When we have shuffle off this mortal coil, must give us pause, there's the respect that makes calamity of so long a life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy take when he himself might his quietus make. With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bare to grunt and sweat under a weary life. But that the dread of something after death, that undiscovered country from who's bourne no traveller returns, puzzles the will and rather makes us bear those ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of. And thus, conscience does make cowards of us all and 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. Soft you now, thy fair Ophelia. Nymph in thy orisons, be all my sins remembered...
(typed from memory)
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Pretty impressive there, OTM. I wish my brain could remember important things like that, and not stuff like where all the powerups in RiverRaid are...
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
Agreed. Last week I failed a music test i spent all night studying for, but then drew a picture of Skeletor from memory.
I havent had that figure in about 9 years.
And someone asked me how i remembered the details of his armor, and the answer was quite simple. I still remember what it felt like, I just closed my eyes and i could remember all the details like i was reading Braille.
Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :
Interesting. We're going to be studying Hamlet in English class soon. No more poetry, yay! Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ... for he who sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother ...
[ November 13, 2001: Message edited by: Malnurtured Snay ]
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
Hey...Sol hasn't made a sarcastic remark regarding the punctuation not being right and Liam hasn't made a sarcastic remark regarding an American butchering the Bard's poetry yet.
I guess I owe myself five bucks.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Give it time, Mars ... give it time.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Not to be.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
Come now Simon, you are in no way the tortured and tragic soul Hamlet was.
Did your uncle kill your father?
Did your uncle then marry your mother? Only 2 months later?
Did your father's ghost come back and make you swear vengence on your uncle who is now king?
Did YOU ever have to decide which is worse...regicide or not following through on a son's vow to revenge your father's murder?
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Gee, thanks, Jeff. You've now seared the image of Kenneth Branagh reciting that from Henry V into my head.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Aw, anything for my favorite verb.
Actually ... C. Carwood Lipton's been saying it on HBO all week at the end of the last "Band of Brothers" episode.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Don't feel sorry for me. Feel sorry for poor old St. Crispin. He's become synonomous with whiney overacted jingoist pep talks. Poor guy. I mean, he probably had an interesting life of healing the sick that was most likely cut short by a big fucking rock to the head or an upside-down cricifixion. But do we remember that? Noooo. We think of frickin' Branagh.
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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
I cop the bloody feelin' yer don't like Branagh. And yer mispelled crucifiction. I'll get out me spoons. I'm sure I did too, init?But I'm certain yer did as well. Cor blimey guv!
To be 'onest, right, I've never seen Branagh's 'enry V. I remember Leonard Nimoy quotin' the bleedin' line durin' some 'Star Trek' special, intercut wiv scenes from 'Star Trek II.'
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Jeff: Erm... You misspelled "crucifixion", too.
I once had most of the "Alas, poor Yorick!" speech memorized for a few minutes...
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet is taking out the trash!
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet is taking out the trash!
.. and this time, its PERSONAL!
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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
I happen to be a big fan of Branagh...
then again, I LIKE ego.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
TSN,
Yes, I know I mispelled it. I said I mispelled it too. Did you miss that little bit? Granted, I ran it through the "cockney" dialect too, but it it's in their pretty clear.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Is it?
Posted by BlueElectron (Member # 281) on :
this is a bit off topic, but have you guys seen that movie where the actor who played Mr. Bean got transported back in time?
I espeically like that movie because Mr. Bean knock the day light out of Shakespeare and make some quarky comment like "This is for all those children who's going to suffer because of you in the future!"
At that point in time, I was screaming, "YEAH, YOU GO MAN, SUCK IT TO THE JERK!"
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Think you could provide a, I don't know, title?
Personally, I thought he was great in 3 Weddings and a Funeral.
That could just be me.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Especially since the rest of the world saw a different film, called Four Weddings and a Funeral. 8)
And, Bluey, what are you on? That's Blackadder! (in this case, Blackadder Back and Forth) You remember him as that silly one-joke character, but not for one of the few decent British comedies of the 80's?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Right. I knew that. I did. Honestly.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
The Rowen Atkinson (mr. bean) thing was a Black Adder special ala A Christmas Carol. Paul
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
That "Back and Forth" thing is the only Blackadder thing I've seen, I'm sorry to say. It's the only thing they've ever aired around here, as far as I know. Not that that sort of thing gets much in the line of publicity. I only saw part of it, and only because I just happened to be looking at the TV listings and saw that it was already on.
Not that that has anything to do w/ anything. Just thought I'd share.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Thank you for sharing that. I'm feeling enriched. No, really, I am. Honestly. Swear to fictional deity. I am. Praise be [PoE] Baby Jesus!
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Hold the phone! We may be onto something interesting. (Wouldn't that be a welcome change?) I think Vogon Poet and CaptainMike have got something great going. Hmmm. I suppose this'd have to go over to the Forum Competitions...but... Come up with ridiculous summer blockbuster tag lines for Shakespearian plays (or Jonson or Chaucer or whomever you fancy)
*quickly and nimbly leaps from forum and heads directly to Competitions*
*Notices (somewhat pathetically) at length no one is following*
*Posts anyway*
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Interesting, I'll check that out. I presume you all know I was actually quoting from Arnie's The Last Action Hero. . .
And, Blackadder Back and Forth was the most-recent of the Black Adder spinoffs. In addition to the 4 series - The Black Adder, Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third, and Blackadder goes Forth, there were two other spinoffs, one a short called Black Adder: The Cavalier Years featuring the execution of Charles I, and A Black Adder Christmas Carol where the good Ebenezer Blackadder is shown the non-error of his ways and becomes a proper bastard as a result.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
You forgot Backadder: The Next Generation.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Since you made that up, and mispelled it, I'm going to side with Lee.
Blackadder was 1985, II was 87, III was 88, and IV was 89, I believe. The christmas special was 1991, and Back & Forth was 1999.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
All of which are included in the DVD package, I think. I want it.
I think Chaucer might be a bit out of our, uh, league though.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I know there are DVDs for each season over here, and one for Back And Forth (which contains something called The Cavalier years, and, er, something else).
