I needed to get this stupid joke out of my head before going to bed
Not Shakespeare-to-Fannish actually, though I am using that tag, because it is close enough.
SHAKESPEARE:
That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;
This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
Would he not stumble? would he not fall down,
Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck
Of that proud man that did usurp his back?
MODERN SLANG EQUIVALENT:
Fuck him and the horse he rode in on!
I humbly offer this suggestion to the No Fear Shakespeare people should they ever get around to doing Richard II.
SHAKESPEARE:
That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;
This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
Would he not stumble? would he not fall down,
Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck
Of that proud man that did usurp his back?
MODERN SLANG EQUIVALENT:
Fuck him and the horse he rode in on!
I humbly offer this suggestion to the No Fear Shakespeare people should they ever get around to doing Richard II.