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Shakespeare was a skier?
Must have been - else why would he have hung around rec.skiing.alpine
where he undoubtably learned about "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Note: when posts signify nothing you are not obliged to respond to the poster, even if the sound and fury is directed at you. Instead one can discuss more important topics: Shakespeare set his plays all over Europe; but IIRC, none are set in the Alps. Does that mean Shakespeare was not really a skier? He did set Hamlet in Denmark, where they should have known about (choke) cross country skiing. |
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Shakespeare was a skier?
lal truckee wrote:
Must have been - else why would he have hung around rec.skiing.alpine where he undoubtably learned about "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Note: when posts signify nothing you are not obliged to respond to the poster, even if the sound and fury is directed at you. And he's not the only bard of old who must have spent some time on RSA: Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel, dated 1653 contains this gem: The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but, which was worse, did injure them most outrageously, called them prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, ****e-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny lobcocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, flutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnat-snappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninny-hammer flycatchers, noddypeak simpletons, turdy gut, ****ten shepherds, and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further, that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes, but might very well content themselves with the coarse unranged bread, or to eat of the great brown household loaf. Ah, the classics! -- //-Walt // // (stolen from http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-slu1.htm) |
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Shakespeare was a skier?
"Walt" wrote in message ... lal truckee wrote: Must have been - else why would he have hung around rec.skiing.alpine where he undoubtably learned about "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Note: when posts signify nothing you are not obliged to respond to the poster, even if the sound and fury is directed at you. And he's not the only bard of old who must have spent some time on RSA: Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, dated 1653 contains this gem: The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but, which was worse, did injure them most outrageously, called them prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, ****e-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny lobcocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, flutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnat-snappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninny-hammer flycatchers, noddypeak simpletons, turdy gut, ****ten shepherds, and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further, that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes, but might very well content themselves with the coarse unranged bread, or to eat of the great brown household loaf. I swear, if anyone ever calls me a ninny lobcock, I'll...I'lll...I'll have to be polite to Bert so I can get some legal advise! |
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Shakespeare was a skier?
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:45:32 -0700, lal truckee
wrote: Must have been - else why would he have hung around rec.skiing.alpine where he undoubtably learned about "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Note: when posts signify nothing you are not obliged to respond to the poster, even if the sound and fury is directed at you. You're right. It's hard sometimes to remember that. :-( He is back in the killfile now. This time without an automatic expire if he doesn't post for x days. -- Alex Heney, Global Villager You can't have everything...where would you put it? To reply by email, my address is aDOTjDOTheneyATbtinternetDOTcom |
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Shakespeare was a skier?
"lal truckee" skrev i melding
... Shakespeare set his plays all over Europe; but IIRC, none are set in the Alps. Does that mean Shakespeare was not really a skier? He did set Hamlet in Denmark, where they should have known about the wonderful world of cross country skiing. Well, the Danes regrettably know generally very little about cross country skiing, I am sorry to say. But more and more of them are becoming keen and devoted skiers, I am happy to say, both XC and alpine skiers. The distance between Denmark and Norway/Sweden or the Alps is luckily very small, and the Danes have generally plenty of money to spend on vacations like skiing holidays. Great sports in Denmark are among others handball, football (soccer), badminton, athletics, and, in winter, ice hockey, believe it or not. But Shakespeare and Hamlet? I strongly suspect that none of them ever skied at all. And BTW, also XC skiing is a great winter sport, really huge here, bigger than alpine skiing, or snowboarding, and is great recreation for the soon-to-be elderly, like myself.................. |
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Shakespeare was a skier?
Inger Skramstad Jørstad wrote:
Great sports in Denmark are among others handball, football (soccer), badminton, athletics, and, in winter, ice hockey, believe it or not. Don't the Danes commute to work on skates when the canals freeze? Maybe that was another country... -- Chester Bullock, Ethical, custom website hosting, design and programming Tenxible Solutions, http://www.tenxible.com Web Based Autoresponder and DRIP system, http://www.toolsre.com AIM: tenxible YahooIM: ccb247 |
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Shakespeare was a skier?
"Chester Bullock" skrev i melding
... Don't the Danes commute to work on skates when the canals freeze? Maybe that was another country... Close, but not close enough. You are obviously thinking about the Dutch, who live in the Netherlands, not very far from Denmark, though. Holland is a part of the Netherlands. Both Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands are kingdoms, but only the Dutch skate on canals, at least as far as I know, that is. |
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Shakespeare was a skier?
"Olaf Timandahaff" skrev i melding
... We do here in Canada, as well. I did not know these facts about Canada and skating until now, but I was only thinking about European countries, anyway. Maybe also in the US, or even in Japan or Korea? But, here in Europe, only in the Netherlands, as far as I know. But in Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and possibly also in Russia, many people skate quite a lot on frozen-over natural rivers, ponds, and lakes, and also do a lot of ice fishing there, but the Dutch have all their man-made canals to go skating on. |
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Shakespeare was a skier?
"Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote:
"Olaf Timandahaff" We do here in Canada, as well. I did not know these facts about Canada and skating until now, but I was only thinking about European countries, anyway. Maybe also in the US, or even in Japan or Korea? But, here in Europe, only in the Netherlands, as far as I know. But in Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and possibly also in Russia, many people skate quite a lot on frozen-over natural rivers, ponds, and lakes, and also do a lot of ice fishing there, but the Dutch have all their man-made canals to go skating on. Shakespeare lived durring the "little ice age" when the Thames and the Avon would freeze over in the winter. It was colder then, which perhaps explains the mild language - tempers tend to flare when there's a lack of cool air to properly stimulate the brain. -- //-Walt // // |
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Shakespeare was a skier?
"Walt" skrev i melding
... Tempers tend to flare when there's a lack of cool air to properly stimulate the brain. True, true................. |
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