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Friday, September 26, 2008

Insults from Shakespeare



I tend to (usually) keep my insults confined to my head, but if one does want to actually say (or write) a terse summary of some example of baffling stupidity, no one says it better than the Bard. How’s this for that neighbor whose car backfires at 6 a.m.—“thou appearth nothing to be but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours,” (Hamlet). Or when the guy at the next table in the restaurant is a jerk, how’s this—“away, you bottle-ale rascal, you filthy bung, away!” (Henry IV). You can find these gems and many others at this nifty blog for literate blather: http://darkpartyreview.blogspot.com/2008/08/our-favorite-zingers-from-bard.html

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