Shakespearean Daily Diss
“…Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.” –Hamlet, 1.3.47-51
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“….To the which place a poor sequester’d stag,
That from the hunter’s aim had ta’en a hurt,
Did come to languish, and indeed, my lord,
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans
That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
Almost to bursting….”
–Macbeth, 2.1.35-40
What is the Internet?
Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee–charged with regulating, among other things, the Internet–on the Internet: “It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes.” Striving ever on toward coot-hood, the Senator continued:
“I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still.” –Twelfth Night, 5.1.122
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“We may account thee a whoremaster and a knave; which notwithstanding, thou shalt be no less esteemed.” –Timon of Athens, 2.2.108-10
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale: he plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful.” –Pericles, Prince of Tyre, 2.1.29-31
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.”
–Two Gentlemen of Verona, 2.4.37-38
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.”
–The Tempest, 2.2.32-34
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept
A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death.” –Richard III, 4.4.47-48
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Methought I was enamour’d of an ass.” –A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 4.1.76
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