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AIBU or AINBU, that is the question

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KateSMumsnet · 19/03/2014 09:51

Zounds! It is Shakespeare Week, apparently.

To celebrate, we happy few, we band of brothers* thought we'd ask you clever folk to put on an antic disposition and post as if the cast of Shakespeare's plays had access to Mumsnet, similar to the classic Biblical Mumsnet thread

For example:

  • SPORN - Out, out damned spot!
  • DH has become really obsessed about an old handkerchief he gave me, is this a red flag?
  • Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have to use tutors....

The three posts that tickle MNHQ the most will be bound for a prize all too precious (or whatever we can find in the cupboard).

So if MN be the food of love, post on....

  • If you thought we wouldn't take this opportunity to shoehorn in and abuse Shakespearean quotes in for no good reason, you thought wrong.
OP posts:
SouthernComforts · 20/03/2014 23:51

Exit, pursued by a cutted - up pear - Inertia

2b or not 2b? What do these National Curriculum levels mean? - ErrolTheDragon

Brilliant.

ItStillLooksLikeRainDear · 20/03/2014 23:42

The toddler doth protest too much, methinks!

TheseAreTheJokesFolks · 20/03/2014 23:38

Neither a borrower nor a lender be ...you'll never get those baby things back

He hath eaten me out of house and home...tell him to pay up the cocklodger

Brevity is the soul of

TheseAreTheJokesFolks · 20/03/2014 23:22

Beware the hello magazine of March

TheseAreTheJokesFolks · 20/03/2014 23:15

My fruit salad days when I was Orange in judgement ;-)

Inertia · 20/03/2014 23:09

I think Errol wins the thread :)

TheseAreTheJokesFolks · 20/03/2014 23:07

Friends Romans Mumsnetters lend me your OK magazines
I come to bury Peder, not praise him

ballsballsballs · 20/03/2014 22:55

My PFB's eyes are nothing like the sun...

should I call our GP?

AchyFox · 20/03/2014 22:43

He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? IABU.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 20/03/2014 21:38

Is this a dagger which I see before me?

Even if its not,call the police and get it logged.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 20/03/2014 21:36

Hmm AIBU?

YABU Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.

KurriKurri · 20/03/2014 21:32

GHOST : 'I am thy father’s spirit,
Doomed for a certain term to walk the night'

HAMLET: 'That's a bit woo Dad'

StandardHeight · 20/03/2014 21:19

Well, if Fortune be a woman, mn is a very rich place.

MardyPants · 20/03/2014 21:17

Out, out, damn Biscuit

StandardHeight · 20/03/2014 21:15

Is this a judgy pants I see before me,
The elastic pulled toward my armpits? Come, let that crutch free

KurriKurri · 20/03/2014 21:09

The funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

And there was a grabby poem in the invitation.

And it was child free.

Shock
UserNameDenied · 20/03/2014 21:00

Romeo-Blue and Juliet-Mae ?

UserNameDenied · 20/03/2014 20:55

Errol Grin.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/03/2014 20:45

2b or not 2b? What do these National Curriculum levels mean? Confused

Inertia · 20/03/2014 20:30

By that gin fell the angels.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/03/2014 20:29

Doghouse: what breed do you recommend?

Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on (Midsummer Night's Dream)

Shannith · 20/03/2014 20:20

Oh these are just brilliant.

What light thru yonder window breaks?

Tis but a great big fecking outside light that is in no way BU

plays ye old Shakespearian harp

ErrolTheDragon · 20/03/2014 20:19

'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts...'

OK, OYBBK, thanks for the weather alert...

ErrolTheDragon · 20/03/2014 20:15

You speak an infinite deal of nothing

_Chat

ErrolTheDragon · 20/03/2014 20:13

Tell me, where is fancy bread?

If you don't have an artisanal baker nearby, Booths aisle 3 is your best bet.