"Three Shakespeares" for GWB

[Chiyo-chichi]

“What's here? the portrait of a blinking idiot,
Presenting me a schedule! I will read it.
How much unlike art thou to Portia!
How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!
'Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves.'
Did I deserve no more than a fool's head?
Is that my prize? are my deserts no better?”


“'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”


A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
A motley fool. A miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool,
Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms- and yet a motley fool.
'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I; 'No, sir,' quoth he,
'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.'
And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock;
Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags;
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine;
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear
The motley fool thus moral on the time,
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer
That fools should be so deep contemplative;
And I did laugh sans intermission
An hour by his dial. O noble fool!
A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear.

[npincus]

1. you've got my nomination!

[Chiyo-chichi]

4. Thanks.

All credit to Shakespeare.
Between "blinking idiot" and "Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves," it's like the Bard was some sorta Nostradamus!

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Here's a famous soliloquy, Dubya style:

Tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that even,
They still happen,
until I get raptured up into the middle of the air, anyway;
And in the past people have died. I wish they hadn't! But there's not much I can do about that anyway, is there? Cuz that's the way life works.
Life's kinda short and dull; it's like there's this bad actor,
And he doesn't know how to act very good and messes up his lines,
So he gets thrown out of the show. He's gone, and no one cares because he was bad, y'see? He's outta there. It's kinda like a story
I told, back when I was a kid, that scared all the other kids,
They got a laugh out of it, then we took the nerds on a snipe hunt.
Heh heh heh...

MacBeth Ch V v. 19

See? He did read a Shakespeare!

[bryant69]

3. GW Bush is an embarrassment to fools everywhere

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Chiyo-chichi]

5. one more...

Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot worshippers, here's a letter for thee.

[Avalux]

6. K & R - good stuff!!

:applause:

[Chiyo-chichi]

7. too easy...

Out, you mad-headed ape!
A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
As you are toss'd with.


and...


Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough to mask thy monstrous visage?

[Gabi Hayes]

8. one more for greatest page

I keep bringing up that three shakespeares quote to people, and nobody I've mentioned it to has ever heard it

what a surprise

they'll surely have heard about Clinton going insane w/Chris Wallassss, tho

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. K & R

[corkhead]

10. I think he is the stuff of Greek tragedy, Oedipus to be specific.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex


GWB is a MF

[oasis]

11. Excellent observation.(eom)