So you know how in That Oxford Movie, Oxford is Elizabeth's illegitimate son (although she doesn't realize it and then they have a bemulleted incest baby who is Southampton)? Which would make him Henry VIII's grandson?

Take a look at these two pictures:


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I have been going through my computer seeing if I'd recorded my sidebar quotes for posterity, since I have been restoring my lj layout -- not having it felt like someone had gone into my living room and rearranged my stuff -- and I did not find them, but I did discover that at some point I had attempted to render into Latin one of the greatest of ( Read more... )

Zachary-Quinto-narrated audiobook + surprisingly good audio editing = HILARITY. This would not really be all that funny in text, but it is INCREDIBLY funny in audio. Also really really NSFW, so, you know, be advised.

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1:42 is where I DIED.

Um, have any of you guys ever noticed this before?

( I'm sure there's a way to make this into an allegory. )

Translation Party is a page that translates English phrases into Japanese and back until it gets something that comes out saying the same thing as it went in (thus: translation equilibrium ( Read more... )

John Dowland = the original emo musician.

Y/Y?

Include doing caricatures of Shakespearean actors with South Park Studio.

We present to you:

( Notable Hamlets of Our Time )

So bromius was telling me about merchandising and the papal visit just now, and the following conversation happened.

bromius: They're selling two kinds of bumperstickers
bromius: One says: I *heart* Benedict XVI, the other says: I *heart* The Pope.
bromius: And I exclaimed, "Why would you get the specific one? The other one is good forever."
angevin2: hee, yeah
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For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I am rereading 1 Henry VI, and have just run across this line, which I had never noticed before (this is in act one scene two, just after the French have had their asses handed to them by the English):

I think by some odd gimmors or device ( Read more... )

skirmish_of_wit reminded me of the existence of this:

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And I can't stop giggling at it. I think I am punchy from too much grading.