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redfiona99General 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.
Day #1: Favourite play
Day #2: Favourite character
Day #3: Favourite hero
Day #4: Favourite heroine
Day #5: Favourite villain
Day #6: Favourite villainess
Day #7: Favourite clown
Day #9: Your favorite tragedy
Day #10: Your favorite history
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
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.
Day #1: Favourite play
Day #2: Favourite character
Day #3: Favourite hero
Day #4: Favourite heroine
Day #5: Favourite villain
Day #6: Favourite villainess
Day #7: Favourite clown
Day #9: Your favorite tragedy
Day #10: Your favorite history
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
