D is reading Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. I started quoting, "friends, romans, countrymen..." and then I wondered, wherefore do I know this particular quote. Was it featured in an episode of The Brady Bunch?
Uh, seriously?
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
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Steph L. - Sep 02, 2010 2:27:53 pm PDT #12274 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Laga - Sep 02, 2010 2:29:26 pm PDT #12275 of 28333
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Is it the climax of the play?
Steph L. - Sep 02, 2010 2:31:54 pm PDT #12276 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
That particular bit has been quoted often and widely. I thought you were joking by singling out one specific usage of the quote.
It would be sort of like asking " 'Take my wife...please!' -- Was that on Cheers?"
Laga - Sep 02, 2010 2:37:04 pm PDT #12277 of 28333
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I wonder what it is that makes that the Caesar quote. I can do 6 or 7 lines of that speech but I couldn't quote anything else from JC. I even thought "cry havoc!.." was a different play.
Polter-Cow - Sep 02, 2010 3:25:47 pm PDT #12278 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I wonder what it is that makes that the Caesar quote.
I don't know, "Et tu, Brute?" could give it a run for its money.
Is it the climax of the play?
No, it's the denouement. It's after Caesar's dead.
megan walker - Sep 02, 2010 3:47:11 pm PDT #12279 of 28333
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think "Cry Havoc!" is also up there.
-t - Sep 02, 2010 4:01:17 pm PDT #12280 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"he's got a lean and hungry look" and "beware the ides of march" are pretty big.
Polter-Cow - Sep 02, 2010 4:02:04 pm PDT #12281 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
"he's got a lean and hungry look"
I've never heard this quoted before. Huh.
"beware the ides of march"
Oh, of course. Yeah, there are a lot of quotable lines. It's Shakespeare!
Connie Neil - Sep 02, 2010 6:11:44 pm PDT #12282 of 28333
brillig
I've never heard this quoted before.
"Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous."
Kathy A - Sep 02, 2010 7:47:44 pm PDT #12283 of 28333
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think my favorite Julius Caesar quote is "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves."