*random Hamlet feelings*

[tempestsarekind]

This has nothing to do with anything except that I just got an email in my inbox about the "Bad Quarto" version of Hamlet, but. A few weeks ago I was trying to describe feminine endings to my students, and the only other line I could come up with on the spot (besides the line in the actual poem, whatever that was) was "To be or not to be, that is

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[negothick]

Did you hear about the Shakespeare-literate Royal Marines, now at court-martial for killing a Taliban prisoner. They left their helmet cameras on, and "He then taunted the dying man to 'shuffle off this mortal coil'"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10399107/Royal-Marine-executed-captured-Afghan-court-martial-hears.html

[tempestsarekind]

No, I hadn't - that's terrible.