Jazz inquired Aside from this just being a point I wanted to make, what other immortal expressions have we cut from the folios of great tomes of literature and pasted into our own lexicons?

Jazz, where to start? There are so many, directly and indirectly quoted. My mother, who's dead at the moment, used to call three old women who lived together in one house up the street from us "the three bitches of Cawdor" because they were so rude. So there was me, misquoting Shakespeare from about age 3. Fortunately, I grew up to misuse Shakespeare in my own ways.

I stage-managed two productions for my school (Hamlet and MacBeth). I've never really liked Hamlet as a play that much, although I always supported Hammy-boy for stabbing Polonius in the arras. I hope it hurt and gave him piles!

You should rent the video "Shakespeare in Love". About half the script by Tom Stoppard comes from various of the balding bard's plays. When I went to see the premiere here in Hutt City, there were times when I was completely creased up because of the misquotes in the script, and I realised that I was the only one laughing! Very embarrassing. Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter indeed.

It's also worth watching because Gwynneth Paltrow is worth looking at, although she can't sing for nuts, cruisin' or anything else. And you do get to see a lot of her ... oh, you're only 17, aren't you? Oops.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...