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Shakespeare for fun and profit

So probably more for fun than profit, really, at least on my end of things. But a colleague of mine has a blog devoted to Shakespeare on film that I thought I’d link to, since it’s good stuff. I had sent him a link to my favorite Shakespeare spoof (with Colin Firth as The Man, no less), from Blackadder Back and Forth:

And he came back with one I’d never seen before, wherein we see how Hamlet ended up with its famous “To be” soliloquy and those gravedigging clowns (this time with Hugh Laurie as “Bill”):

September 05 2008 | Humor and Reading and Teaching | 1 Comment »

If it looks like a duck …

So I’ve been wracking my brains lately in an attempt to figure out why Sarah Palin looks so familiar to me, when it suddenly hit me last night. She’s been spending time in my living room on a daily basis, ever since my kids started watching reruns of “King of the Hill.” She’s Peggy Hill. 

Separated at birth?

I thought I was so smart to figure this out, but then checked it out on some search engines and found that there are lots of others who think the same thing. Odd, eh? And then I came across this piece that’s too funny not to share:

September 05 2008 | Humor and Politics | No Comments »

Lolcats makez me laffs

So I’m not sure I can reproduce cat grammar all that well, but I do love the funny (and sometimes quietly disconcerting) pictures on the Lolcats website.

July 30 2008 | Daily life and Humor | No Comments »