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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:
Shakey1500 · 19/03/2014 21:52

I left no post with them
What means this Netmums?
Fortune forbid my username hath not charmed them!
They made good view of me; indeed so much,
That then me thought their site may explode,
For they did blaze with shitty tickers.
They love me,sure:the cunning of their passion
Invites me in their baby sodding countdowns.
None of my Netmums? Why, I visited not
I am a Mumsnetter. If it be so, as 'tis
Poor Netmums, they were better love a dream.
Tickers, I see thou art a wickedness,
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.

Grin Modified "Ring Speech" by Viola, Twelfth Night.

Shakey1500 · 19/03/2014 21:43

Oh well done CheeseTMouse! Grin

CheeseTMouse · 19/03/2014 21:40

AIBU in thinking these workmen exceptionally rude? One of them was pretending to be a wall, instead of just getting on and building as I had asked.

superlambanana · 19/03/2014 21:25

O spite! O hell! It seems you all are bent
To tell me IABU for your merriment

KoalaFace · 19/03/2014 21:14

If we posters have offended,
Think but this and all is mended,
That you have been unreasonable here
While these personal attacks did appear.
And this MIL and DIL theme,
No more bitching but a dream,
MNers, do not reprehend:
If you bum sex we will mend.
And, as I am a gin loving Puck,
If we have cunt bunting luck
Now to 'scape the viper's tongue,
We will make lemon drizzle ere long;
Else the Puck a gaslighter call:
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your pombears, if we be friends,
And JustineMNHQ shall restore amends. [Exit.]

wizzler · 19/03/2014 21:14

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you park too close to us in the car park, awnbu to leave a note on your windscreen?

CheeseTMouse · 19/03/2014 21:10

Baby names: What ho! Horatio!

Mumsnet: What about a nice sensible sounding name instead? William?

MotherOfDragon · 19/03/2014 21:03

Ok, one last one:

"I wish you all joy of my NC MIL." (Antony and Cleopatra)

MotherOfDragon · 19/03/2014 21:00

Truly, thou art damned like an very first Biscuit (as you like it)

Ok, I think i'm done.

MotherOfDragon · 19/03/2014 20:59

Do you think because you are virtuous, that there shall be no more naice ham? (twelfth night)

MotherOfDragon · 19/03/2014 20:56

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
No, we are MNetters and we don't fucking care what you think

debbietheduck · 19/03/2014 18:39

It may be technically correct to address a married woman by her husband's name...
But it is a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance.

CelticJuggler · 19/03/2014 17:46

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Is this a red flag?

CelticJuggler · 19/03/2014 17:43

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unpleasantness.

Too early for the Friday night drunk thread?

AtYourCervix · 19/03/2014 17:33

Do you bite your thumb at me sir?

I bite my thumb sir.

Do you bite your thumb at me?

ScrambledeggLDCcakeBOAK · 19/03/2014 16:10

God has given you one face, and you (with help of boots and a trowel) make yourself another.

magimedi · 19/03/2014 15:14

"A gin, a gin! My pfb for a gin".

meditrina · 19/03/2014 14:41

"O Romeo, that she were! Oh, that she were
An open arse, and thou a poperin pear."

AIBU to leave this in the erotic manuscript I'm editing?

PassNoRemark · 19/03/2014 14:27

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BananaBeforeBed · 19/03/2014 13:49

Ha! Art thou Bedlam? Nah, just my house.

RubySparks · 19/03/2014 13:45

Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and Slow cooker bubble

BananaBeforeBed · 19/03/2014 13:39

"There live not three good men unhanged in England: and one of them is fat. Should I LTB?"

BananaBeforeBed · 19/03/2014 13:37

I love Kim's band of mothers.

BananaBeforeBed · 19/03/2014 13:37

If you prick us with a pin, don’t we bleed? If you tickle us, don’t we laugh? If you poison us, don’t we die? And if you treat us badly, won’t we try to get revenge? Report, report, MNHQ will deal with you - permanently!