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- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Path: sparky!uunet!eco.twg.com!twg.com!news
- From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
- Subject: Shaking speare (was Claudio peeve)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.173035.26225@twg.com>
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- Sender: news@twg.com (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
- Organization: Dead and Dying Poesy Practitioners
- References: <28198@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1e8hvdINN8er@agate.berkeley.edu> <Bxu4Bz.8n6@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:30:35 GMT
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- In article <Bxu4Bz.8n6@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
- [into the dustbin with the prelude]
- |>Peeve: People who don't know what "wherefore" means. Almost as bad as
- |>"Lead on, Macduff". No, worse.
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- And then there's the line Shakespeare elided from Mac Beth because it didn't
- scan, the line Mc B sez when he wakes up, looks over the parapet, and sees
- that Mac D and his buddies have fulfilled the prophecy and brought Burnham
- Wood to Dunsinane:
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- "Cheese it! The copse!"
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- Nolan "They called the cat Willie the Shake 'cause he shook everybody" Hinshaw
- Internet: nolan@twg.com Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197
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