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[claymore]

Re: Freudian slip?

Now you're just confusing the issue bringing Freud into it.. can we just stick to Shakespeare and Macdeff?


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Claymore
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[jhr]

Hattie Jacques

That's not what she told me..............

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[Metabarca]

Shakespeare as yottie

"But screw your courage to the sticking plate and you'll not fail" is clearly a reference by Lady M to the need for maintenance on the family yacht, a lack of foresight on Macbeth's side which is, alas, all too typical of the man and would soon lead him into Serious Trouble with ghouls and ghosties.

"Dost think because thou art a mobo there shall be no more rags and skegs?"Which proves Sir Toby Belch (a fine gent) was a raggie and Malvoglio (picture him in yottie cap, G&T and painted on sun-tan) wasn't...

;-)

Any more Shakespearean (mis)quotes?

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[Mirelle]

Re: Shakespeare as yottie

Hamlet on antifouling:

...O that these too too solid weeds should melt
Thaw and resolve themselves into a dew
Or that th'IMO had not fixed
Its canon 'gainst tributyl tin.....

And on the British yachtsman's eternal dilemma:

.......To go or not to go, that is the question
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of a day at anchor
Or to take reefs and brave th'opposing forecast
And by hard sailing, get there.....

Falstaff was clearly a racing yachtsman, he

....sharked up a list of lawless resolutes....










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[Gunfleet]

very good - nm

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[Mirelle]

Re: Shakespeare as yottie

Henry V was another racer:

"Once more unto the mark, dear friends, once more,
And sit the boat up on the windward leg!
Cruising, there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility
But when the starting gun sounds in your ear
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood
And imitate the action of a Connors.
Disguise fair nature with hard favoured rage
Put on the Mustos, don the yellow boots
And line the rail until we round the mark;
Then drop the headsail and let fly the kite
Hold hard the breath and wisely ply the sheet
To keep it drawing. Pay no heed
To those who are but cruising, let them keep
Well clear of us! On, on, you zealous crewmen
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'



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