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Thursday, April 23, 2026

And a one, and ado...

 


It is National Talk Like Shakespeare Day. And before you doth protest too much,  let me say that it really isn't that different than Talk Like a Pirate Day.  There are just a few less "Arrrrs" and "Swabs" and "Avast yee's."

I actually like Shakespeare.  I particularly like Hamlet. To a lesser extent I sort of like Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer's Night Dream. Most of my exposure has been through having to read the plays in high school, college and then again when my children had to read those plays in high school. Funny how I have to relive things you have to read in high school. I can't tell you how many times I've had to read The Things They Carried.  Though in all fairness I didn't read it in high school since I was in high school during the time of the Vietnam war which is where the book was set.

But I digress. Back to Shakespeare. Here is one of the first riffs on Shakespeare I made years ago. I thought it would be a pretty funny name for a Dry Cleaners.


Then there was another riff on Hamlet with this one:


Oh well.  I'm no Shakespeare.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wait. I’m not pointing any fingers, but how do we know you’re not the one actually doing the artwork (because we know you love to) and AI is writing your blog? -iridethebus

Time said...

This is a very good question. But if I was still actually doing the artwork (which you are correct, I used to enjoy doing) it would still look like crap. And if AI was writing the blog, it would be written much better but each post would end with a question about four or five other options for what my next post should be.