Off to the Theatre...
David G. Bell
Theatre in London.
Well, virtually. Because the BBC4 TV channel is going to be showing a
live broadcast of Shakespeare's "Richard II" from the Globe Theatre.
Check your local digital broadcaster.
Did they have peanuts in Will's day?
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Kathy Gallagher
""David G. Bell"" <db...@zhochaka.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:20030907.17...@zhochaka.demon.co.uk...
> In just under an hour, at 7pm local time, I'm going to be at the Globe
> Theatre in London.
>
> Well, virtually. Because the BBC4 TV channel is going to be showing a
> live broadcast of Shakespeare's "Richard II" from the Globe Theatre.
> Check your local digital broadcaster.
>
> Did they have peanuts in Will's day?
>
critiquing a play by the groundlings down in the front rows.
KG
Kimberley Verburg
>In just under an hour, at 7pm local time, I'm going to be at the Globe
>Theatre in London.
>
>Well, virtually. Because the BBC4 TV channel is going to be showing a
>live broadcast of Shakespeare's "Richard II" from the Globe Theatre.
>Check your local digital broadcaster.
>
>Did they have peanuts in Will's day?
Hazelnuts, apparently. I took a tour around the Globe Theatre (before
they'd finished building it) and the guide told us that they'd been
surprised to find a layer of hazelnut shells on the ground of the original
site.
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David G. Bell
kat...@voyager.net "Kathy Gallagher" wrote:
No need.
Like, wow!
How can anyone follow _that_!
Matthew燘. Tepper
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If David is going for that effect, he'll also have to stand in front of his
monitor rather than sit down.
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Steve Glover
<db...@zhochaka.demon.co.uk> writes
>Did they have peanuts in Will's day?
I believe there's references to the "groundlings" and orange peel....
Steve
ObPoetry: Googling for "orange peel" didn't get me the poem "Snapshot of
Nairobi":
With orange peel the streets are strewn
And pips beyond computing
On every shoulder but my own
That's fractured with saluting
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Cally Soukup
> ObPoetry: Googling for "orange peel" didn't get me the poem "Snapshot of
> Nairobi":
> With orange peel the streets are strewn
> And pips beyond computing
> On every shoulder but my own
> That's fractured with saluting
I just finished proofreading a page of the magazine "Punchinello", the
April 9 1870 issue, for Distributed Proofreaders. Here's the first
item on the page:
[Illustration: THE NEW-YORK ANTI-ORANGE-PEEL AND BANANA-SKIN
ASSOCIATION, AS THEY APPEAR IN THEIR GREAT HUMANITARIAN FEAT OF
CLEARING THE SIDE-WALKS.]
(It's a picture of top-hatted men slipping on orange and banana peels)
ORANGE-PEEL, ET. CETERA.
PUNCHINELLO, ever ready to hail with acclamation all that is for the
welfare of his fellow-men, is delighted to learn that an
"Anti-Orange-peel-and-Banana-skin Association" has been organized in
the city of New-York. The great number of severe accidents annually
caused by the idiotic custom of casting orange-peel and such other
lubricious integuments recklessly about the side-walks, has long
furnished a topic for public animadversion. Some of our leading
citizens have taken the matter in hand--or, to speak more correctly, on
foot. The picture at the top of this page gives a life-like
representation of the Association referred to, engaged in their
benevolent work of removing from the side-walk with their Boots all
such fragments as might tend to the development of Slippers. The
Association has PUNCHINELLO'S best wishes. The Orange-Outangs who
render the side-walks dangerous have his worst.
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to the death your right to say it." -- Beatrice Hall
Cally Soukup sou...@pobox.com
Alan Winston - SSRL Admin Cmptg Mgr
I want to thank Cally for posting this, and to let all know that "lubricious
integuments" will be the title of my September LASFAPAzine. I really like
saying "lubricious integuments."
-- Alan ("lubricious ... oh, never mind")
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Cally Soukup
> I want to thank Cally for posting this, and to let all know that "lubricious
> integuments" will be the title of my September LASFAPAzine. I really like
> saying "lubricious integuments."
> -- Alan ("lubricious ... oh, never mind")
It does roll trippingly off the tounge, doesn't it? The language made
it fun to proof, though the text was annoyingly small, and several
letters were inconsistantly misrendered.