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Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: plockplock (---.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net)
Date: January 13, 2007 05:46PM

Else you might come up with lines like this:

"Now is the Dinner of our discontent made glorious Supper by this Loin of Pork."

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: LeonardQuirm (---.adsl.entanet.co.uk)
Date: January 13, 2007 10:51PM

Ah, you're just reading the wrong one. Titus Andronicus is the one to go for in times of hunger.

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: Lymond (---.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com)
Date: January 14, 2007 10:20AM

the merchant of venison
As you like it, medium rare,
Ham let
Julius Caesar salad

*hastily referes to ISIHAC late arrivals at the butchers ball*

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: Lymond (---.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com)
Date: January 14, 2007 10:21AM

and dont lets forget spotted Richard II and III

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: January 14, 2007 10:47AM

use only a small piece of ham.

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: xmorpheus (193.95.170.---)
Date: January 15, 2007 09:35AM

Oh I am fortune's gooseberry fool

From the famous first date play Romeod what Juliet

ok ok it's an old one - it's first thing on a Monday and the only coffee available is decaf! ;)

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.isnet.net)
Date: January 15, 2007 06:30PM

Lenny! Welcome back!

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.server.ntli.net)
Date: January 15, 2007 10:56PM

A Plague o' both your Horseraddishes!

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: January 16, 2007 02:54AM

O that this too too salad fresh should melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew…

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: January 16, 2007 10:38AM

You all realize that Puck is going to kill us, don't you?

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: xmorpheus (193.95.170.---)
Date: January 16, 2007 10:49AM

"'I am that merry wanderer of the night.'? I am that giggling, dangerous, totally bloody psychotic menace to life-and-limb, more like it."

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: Anne (81.171.227.---)
Date: January 16, 2007 02:06PM

To eat or not to eat, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler for the waist to suffer the turkey twizzlers and outrageous portions, or take action against a surfeit of food, and by reducing, slim them.

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.isnet.net)
Date: January 16, 2007 06:46PM

xmorpheus: I love that line. From one of the Sandman novels if you were wondering....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: Lymond (---.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com)
Date: January 17, 2007 01:49AM

The course of carrot juice never did run smooth - I need a new kitchen blender.

(why will puck kill us?)

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: January 17, 2007 05:37PM

We are such stuff as salad greens are made of.

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: Lymond (---.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com)
Date: January 18, 2007 03:48AM

What's in a name? That which we call a roast
By any other name would taste as sweet.

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: January 18, 2007 08:43AM

I'll have these players play something like the luncheon of my father before mine uncle. Then if he do but drool, I'll know my (third or fourth) course. The meal's the thing, wherein I'll catch the appetite of the king!

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: Lymond (---.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com)
Date: January 19, 2007 12:07PM

Welcome, good Robin.
See'st thou this sweet?
The date cake now I do begin to pity:
For, eating it of late behind the trolley,
Seeking sweet favours from this hateful food,
I did upbraid her and fall out with her;
For the waitress from the kitchen then had rounded
With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flans;
And that same dew, which sometime on the buds
Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,
Poured now upon that pretty flans heights
Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
When I had at my pleasure tasted it
And the waitress in mild terms begg'd my patience,
I then did ask for a napkin
Which straight she gave me, and to the kitchen sent
To bear to my table a 1787 Chateau d'Yquem.
And now I have the bottle, I will undo
This hateful imperfection of a cork:
And, gently Pluck, take this transformed cork
From off the neck of this fine wine;
That, he awaking when the other do,
May all to Athens back again repair
And think no more of this night's accidents
But as the fierce vexation of a hangover.
But first I will release the green fairy.
Be as thou wast wont to be;
See as thou wast wont to see:
Dian's bud o'er Cupid's absinthe
Hath no force or blessed power.
Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen and phone me an ambulance.

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: January 19, 2007 03:55PM

Okay, you win the prize.

Re: Never read Shakespeare while you're hungry
Posted by: xmorpheus (193.95.170.---)
Date: January 19, 2007 04:34PM

Is it a cookie?

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