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The quote in today's icon is, as many of you will recognize, from Hamlet, Act I, sc. 3, when Polonius gives Laertes a laundry list of platitudes.
Brush Up Your Shakespeare Month ended earlier this week, so I thought I'd create a post out of some of my favorite Shakespeare quotes from the plays covered in the second half of the month that are sometimes useful in everyday conversation. The plays covered include Macbeth through A Midsummer Night's Dream, or so my handy dandy directory informs me.
Macbeth
"Fair is foul and foul is fair." The Witches, Act I, sc. 1.
"Screw your courage to the sticking place" Lady Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7.
"What's done is done." Lady Macbeth, Act III, sc. 2.
"Blood will have blood." Macbeth, Act III, sc. 4.
" . . . at one fell swoop?" Macduff, Act IV, sc. 3.
"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him." Lady Macduff, Act V, sc. 1.
"What's done cannot be undone." Id.
"Throw physic to the dogs. I'll none of it." Macbeth, Act V, sc. 3.
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day" Macbeth, Act V, sc. 5.
"Out, out, brief candle!" Id.
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing." Id.
"Lay on, Macduff" Macbeth, Act V, sc. 8.
( Twelfth Night )
( Richard III )
( As You Like It )
( Othello )
( King Lear )
( A Midsummer Night's Dream )
Brush Up Your Shakespeare Month ended earlier this week, so I thought I'd create a post out of some of my favorite Shakespeare quotes from the plays covered in the second half of the month that are sometimes useful in everyday conversation. The plays covered include Macbeth through A Midsummer Night's Dream, or so my handy dandy directory informs me.
Macbeth
"Fair is foul and foul is fair." The Witches, Act I, sc. 1.
"Screw your courage to the sticking place" Lady Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7.
"What's done is done." Lady Macbeth, Act III, sc. 2.
"Blood will have blood." Macbeth, Act III, sc. 4.
" . . . at one fell swoop?" Macduff, Act IV, sc. 3.
"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him." Lady Macduff, Act V, sc. 1.
"What's done cannot be undone." Id.
"Throw physic to the dogs. I'll none of it." Macbeth, Act V, sc. 3.
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day" Macbeth, Act V, sc. 5.
"Out, out, brief candle!" Id.
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing." Id.
"Lay on, Macduff" Macbeth, Act V, sc. 8.
( Twelfth Night )
( Richard III )
( As You Like It )
( Othello )
( King Lear )
( A Midsummer Night's Dream )
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First, I must include a random photo of the most distressing cake I have ever made. Thing 1's birthday party was yesterday and she requested a princess cake on short notice, with low provisions. So I was forced to create the Fugly Cake with princesses baked inside. I am displaying it here for everyone who as ever asked me "Maggie, what can't you do?"
I am not normally an antiques person. I did not even realize that 'antique' could be a verb until a few years ago. So I was largely disinterested. I did, however, find myself highly attracted to this mug/ stein thing. As you can see at the right, it depicts people dancing in pairs, holding fiddles, and . . . vomiting. I mean, what is that guy doing there on the left? Do you see him? The one with the string of something coming from his mouth?
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nostalgic
amused
Bayer's DIDGET meter was developed in conjunction with Paul Wessel -- the parent of a child with type 1 diabetes. Paul noticed that although his son Luke was constantly losing his blood glucose meter, he could always find his Nintendo Game Boy. It was this observation that inspired Paul and Bayer to work together to develop the first and only blood glucose meter that connects to the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DS Lite gaming systems to reward children for good testing habits.
As you might imagine, finding a manufacturer today for the 8-track version of Cheap Trick's The Latest wasn't easy. "There was a lot of looking under rocks," admits Frey, who finally found a small plant in Dallas, Tex., for the retro-fit. "They're expensive to make, and they don't make very many at a time," he says of the cartridge which will sell to the public for something close to $30.
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Out of the Blue's "Dead Gnome" line features garden gnomes with pistols in their mouths, or holding up the dripping heads of decapitated brethren, industriously sawing their own hands off, hanging from a gibbet, grinning glassily at the arrow that's pierced their heads, and so on. It's the wet, happy grins that get me.
