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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #30 on: April 08, 2008, 06:08:26 PM »
Mince can hardly be an expert if he hasn't read "HAMLET!!!!".

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #31 on: April 08, 2008, 06:09:07 PM »
No, I noticed in each case that he used an exclamation mark that he used only one.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #32 on: April 08, 2008, 06:10:22 PM »
Mince can hardly be an expert if he hasn't read "HAMLET!!!!".

The play about the rather excited baby ham was not by Shakespeare.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #33 on: April 08, 2008, 06:14:28 PM »
No, I noticed in each case that he used an exclamation mark that he used only one.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #34 on: April 08, 2008, 06:24:36 PM »
" My Kingdom for a horse" originally had 17 exclamation marks after it but a zealous sub-editor removed them.
This is a quote from the biography " Me and Bill" by Zebediah Quirke.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #35 on: April 08, 2008, 06:40:29 PM »
Was he the guy who also claimed that he changed the titles of "Much ado about ?" and "1? Gentlemen of Verona"?

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #36 on: April 09, 2008, 10:03:11 AM »
Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #37 on: April 09, 2008, 06:26:55 PM »
Isn't there a debate among academics about whether the word was "solid" or "sullied"?

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #38 on: April 09, 2008, 06:40:16 PM »
Isn't there a debate among academics about whether the word was "solid" or "sullied"?

Well there is now. It was "solid", Fydo, OKAY!!!???  >:(
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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #39 on: April 09, 2008, 06:47:59 PM »
Roger said "academics", not "half-wits".

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #40 on: April 09, 2008, 06:51:52 PM »
Then you can't join in. **** off!
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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #41 on: April 09, 2008, 07:02:31 PM »
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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #42 on: April 09, 2008, 07:43:48 PM »
Isn't there a debate among academics about whether the word was "solid" or "sullied"?

Well there is now. It was "solid", Fydo, OKAY!!!???  >:(
"Solid" has now been broadly accepted but a genuine debate exists. In the context of play and character, "sullied" makes much more sense. I'm off to watch the football now.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #43 on: April 09, 2008, 07:50:18 PM »
"Solid" has now been broadly accepted but a genuine debate exists. In the context of play and character, "sullied" makes much more sense. I'm off to watch the football now.

I fundamentally disagree, although I acknowledge where your assertion stems from, given the nature of Hamlet. However, the suicidal metaphor, allied to the juxtaposition of the verbs "melt" and "thaw" would, I suggest, render the use of "solid" entirely appropriate in my opinion.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #44 on: April 09, 2008, 08:05:17 PM »
"Solid" has now been broadly accepted but a genuine debate exists. In the context of play and character, "sullied" makes much more sense. I'm off to watch the football now.

I fundamentally disagree, although I acknowledge where your assertion stems from, given the nature of Hamlet. However, the suicidal metaphor, allied to the juxtaposition of the verbs "melt" and "thaw" would, I suggest, render the use of "solid" entirely appropriate in my opinion.

I don't have Sky - what's the score?

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