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Mar. 23rd, 2012 05:21 pmGeneral things:
If you know anyone who is thinking of working with valeric acid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeric_acid) tell them not to, or exile them out to a fume hood. The stuff stinks. Suggestions for descriptions of odorat du valeric acid include vomit, rancid running kit or stale, rancid fencing kit. Anyone who has ever smelled the latter will know how awful something has to be to merit that description.
Middle-aged male fencers, who are, in person, when they're not hitting you, really nice, but who hit like donkeys are a menace. When you're hit so hard that your flesh has been shifted at the point of contact, and it takes ~ 16 hours for the bruise to come up, no good will come of it.
Shakespeare Meme - Day #8: Your favorite comedy
As You Like It
Because it's funny. It's basically a toss up between that and 'Midsummer Night's Dream'.
'Much Ado About Nothing' would be my favourite, except Hero gets lumbered with Claudio, and I'm sorry, nothing where Claudio gets anything but derision, scorn and possibly exile is ever going to be my favourite.
I have the same problem with 'Measure For Measure' because neither the Duke of Vienna nor Angelo get their comeuppance. Poor Antonio getting the boot (although it's better than the noose) and quite how mean-spirited the treatment of Malvolio is rules out 'Twelfth Night'. That mean-spiritedness is also why Feste wasn't up for the clown award yesterday.
( Other Days )
If you know anyone who is thinking of working with valeric acid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeric_acid) tell them not to, or exile them out to a fume hood. The stuff stinks. Suggestions for descriptions of odorat du valeric acid include vomit, rancid running kit or stale, rancid fencing kit. Anyone who has ever smelled the latter will know how awful something has to be to merit that description.
Middle-aged male fencers, who are, in person, when they're not hitting you, really nice, but who hit like donkeys are a menace. When you're hit so hard that your flesh has been shifted at the point of contact, and it takes ~ 16 hours for the bruise to come up, no good will come of it.
Shakespeare Meme - Day #8: Your favorite comedy
As You Like It
Because it's funny. It's basically a toss up between that and 'Midsummer Night's Dream'.
'Much Ado About Nothing' would be my favourite, except Hero gets lumbered with Claudio, and I'm sorry, nothing where Claudio gets anything but derision, scorn and possibly exile is ever going to be my favourite.
I have the same problem with 'Measure For Measure' because neither the Duke of Vienna nor Angelo get their comeuppance. Poor Antonio getting the boot (although it's better than the noose) and quite how mean-spirited the treatment of Malvolio is rules out 'Twelfth Night'. That mean-spiritedness is also why Feste wasn't up for the clown award yesterday.
( Other Days )
