What are you reading now?

[Michael]

See, Megan? You left out a noun and Philip pounced!

As the Bard would put it:

"I had as lief no deignful blotte denied
As leaping o'er a throstle in my lethe
How sharper than a serpent's thanks
It is to have a toothless child."

(And he can't spell "heap" - Philip, that is, not Shakespeare - unless he was referring to David Copperfield.)

[Bonn1827]

"I had thought that nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably". (Hamlet)

[Megan]

Me too, I share your love of Shakespeare. Elizabethan spelling and syntax was always a problem for me, too.
Me like William. You like William? You me tell later, Megan. You add icon; We heep big laugh share later. Out, damned out, spot. Or something like that.

Mockery will get you nowhere Philip. You don't need to be, or not to be, an expert in Shakespeare. It is not a winter of discontent of language, but a glorious summer.
Are you an educated man? or, do you sign your name like a plain and honest dealing man? Do not ask me why, for I will give you no cause for it.
Ignorance is darkness, which is why I am cast in this prison! Our revels now are ended. Shall there be no more cakes and ales?

[Michael]

Mockery will get you nowhere Philip. You don't need to be, or not to be, an expert in Shakespeare. It is not a winter of discontent of language, but a glorious summer.
Are you an educated man? or, do you sign your name like a plain and honest dealing man? Do not ask me why, for I will give you no cause for it.
Ignorance is darkness, which is why I am cast in this prison! Our revels now are ended. Shall there be no more cakes and ales?

I think he exited, pursued by a bear. (No offence, Megan!)

[PDG]

Reading "Richard II" by Bill Shakespeare. I recently bought the BBC DVD edition of all the plays and am viewing them in (approximate) order of composition. I then pull out my trusty Pelican edition and read the text. It beats the "Beano" any day!

Billy Shakespeare is not such a literary giant as Billy Whizz, as you well know Michael. And for your insolence, I'm not now going to send you the red-and-black striped, Dennis The Menace jumper I was knitting you for Christmas...

[PDG]

I think he exited, pursued by a bear. (No offence, Megan!)

Was it Biffo The Bear?

[Megan]

I think he exited, pursued by a bear. (No offence, Megan!)

Yes, it does seem rather quiet in here.

[Megan]

Was it Biffo The Bear?

[Michael]

Was it Biffo The Bear?

(I can't do the dancing laugh. Arthritis.)

[PDG]

(I can't do the dancing laugh. Arthritis.)

I can't speak for Arthur Itis, but Simon Smith had an Amazing Dancing Bear...

[PDG]

Megan, you look like a manic alarm clock!..

[Quijote]

See, Megan? You left out a noun and Philip pounced!

Allez, allez ... !! I was kidding, you know. Sacré bleu, do all my attempts at humour always fall so flat?

[Quijote]

Mockery will get you nowhere Philip.

Allez, Mégane, I was joking. My pedantry (Philip the Pedant - where did I pick up this moniker? Don't answer that.) I use like salt : not too much, just comme il faut.

[Megan]

An Avatar for Philip

I have designed an Avatar for Philip. My first attempt.
Hope you like it.

[Quijote]

I have designed an Avatar for Philip. My first attempt.
Hope you like it.

Why thank you, Megan!