Esmeralda

Eyemouth (’tis a place)

@Pete wrote:

I still dont like him :lol:

Don’t be so bloody thrawn, man..how could anyone fail to be moved by such as this..

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an…[Read more]

@cath 55 wrote:

@toybulldog wrote:

not often enough (wipes sweat off brow)

can you balance gorgonzola on your middle finger ?

of course cant everyone?

have you ever turned marmite white?

Guilty.. I got my quota of soya marge to marmite somewhat confuddled.. more a kind of taupe if i’m honest

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Skara Brae by George Mackay Brown

In the last of the snow
A great one died
In that stone hollow in the east.
A winter sunset
Will touch his mouth. He carries
A cairngorm on his cold finger
To the…[Read more]

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

Yup Esme!
Personally.. I’m in the de Vere camp.

Either way.. the guy RULED!! 8)

Agreed..with regard to the genius of it..I couldn’t give a toss if authorship were divvied up between Atilla The Hun and Vlad The Impaler..but it would be a nod to justice if Oxford were given his due. 8)

@dead_on_arrvial wrote:

Can someone please tell me why the government can find billions of pounds for failing banks at the “drop of a hat”, billions for overseas wars but nothing for the NHS or pensioners?

I heard the food is so bad in Scotland, they’re giving it away to school kids and the English tax payers are paying for that too !!!…

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@drummerchris wrote:

There’s some great point there…. and lest we forget that Mr Shakespeare invented many of the common words we use today (in that they cannot be found anywhere else in written word before his usage of them). These words include:

Puking – As You Like It, Act II, Scene vii

Hobnob – Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV

Eyeball – A…

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“The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.”

The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Scene 1.

Aye lad t’Alan Bennet class reet enough. 8)

@minim wrote:

tsh tsh….. have you never quoted live poets?

Pish psh..been doing it for years..not banged up yet, and as a published poet I don’t mind having it done to me just so long as both my name and authorship are acknowledged.

@minim wrote:

I was trawling the net looking for works by Wendy Cope and I found this. It is extremely relevant both to this thread and to Esme’s take on my missing out the name of the poem and the author.

I won’t post the poem for obvious reasons, but please link to it and read. Maybe we shouldn’t be posting other people’s work at all!

The Law…

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@WooHoo wrote:

@Esmeralda wrote:

@WooHoo wrote:

I don’t smoke it.. :-

Yes..well..eating it was worse and earned me a trip to hospital in the throes of a psychotic episode. :oops:

You ate some dope? :lol:

I was young..gifted and black. Erm..no..I was young and stupid! :oops:

@WooHoo wrote:

I don’t smoke it.. :-

Yes..well..eating it was worse and earned me a trip to hospital in the throes of a psychotic episode. :oops:

@Sir Actor wrote:

@Esmeralda wrote:

@sharongooner wrote:

lil feks and woo hoo’s avators.

lil fek gets an avator, PB’s suddenly being all nice

what has happened?

Yes, I’m concerned, Shazza. It’s like i’ve stumbled into a parallel world. It sorta looks the same as JC..smells the same as JC…but :?:

Or it could be the spliff kicking in…..

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@sharongooner wrote:

hmmm… remember the othello thread?!

Im not a lover of Shaky, but enjoy some of his stuff.

That Green Door was brilliant!

“I do know of these
That therefore only are reputed wise
For saying nothing.”

The Merchant of Venice. ACT I Scene 1.

@sharongooner wrote:

lil feks and woo hoo’s avators.

lil fek gets an avator, PB’s suddenly being all nice

what has happened?

Yes, I’m concerned, Shazza. It’s like i’ve stumbled into a parallel world. It sorta looks the same as JC..smells the same as JC…but :?:

@sharongooner wrote:

tiptoes in

and tiptoes out

I shant intrude again!

Don’t be daft..the more the merrier :P

“From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.”

Love’s Labour ’s Lost. ACT IV Scene 3.

@sharongooner wrote:

dont be so bloody patronising. whats it to do with you if it happens to me?

Im pretty sure whatever “it” is will happen to me, Ive no doubt. Im damned if I can steer fate.

I take it ya meant Pete and not me :lol: