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ABR Discussion Thread XXIX: Where we talk about bears....
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2009-11-16, 11:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXIX: Where we talk about bears....
Got a thing for a bears there skimmer?
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2009-11-16, 12:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-11-16, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXIX: Where we talk about bears....
Well, my monitor broke for no apprent reason, soI'm currently using the family's laptop. This means ofcourse, that I won't be able to post up any comics for now. Yayness.
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2009-11-16, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXIX: Where we talk about bears....
Hey guys, I was thinking of doing a brief webcomic using the various ABR characters. Essentially, it'd be a retelling of
MacbethThe Scottish Play , so the kids in my english class have something besides spark notes to use.
A brief list of cast members so far
Macduff- Almighty Salmon
Lady Macduff & Son- Miscellaneous flying landfish
MacbethThe King- Dunno about this one.
Lady Macbeth- Threeshades
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The Witches- Kpenguin, SinisterPenguin, and Myself, since the three of us look enough alike.
The Porter- Q, because they have similar personalities.
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXIX: Where we talk about bears....
Yeah.
It's pretty sad, actually, the number of books that have been ruined for me by school...
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2009-11-16, 05:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hey Skim, in the OP, you might want to add (Managed by Tiffanie Lirle) next to the FFF: Reboot archive link. And put a space after the colon.
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXIX: Where we talk about bears....
While I certainly agree with the "study" part and find it utterly stupid that the teacher has to teach us about books they claim to be classics that everybody knows about and thus will talk about, I'm not so sure about the "fun" part; Hamlet is very political, written for the high class and ends with everybody dying without accomplishing anything, I can't sympathise with any of the characters and thus don't find it interesting...
Why do you find it fun?Treasured Quotes
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2009-11-16, 06:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXIX: Where we talk about bears....
There's a reason you can't sympathize (spell it the AMERICAN way, dang you! )with Hamlet: In my opinion, he's just a little bit crazy. Of course, I've only read abridgments of the story and watched the beginning of the play, so maybe I'm not so reliable.
Shakespeare does have some good writings, though. The Tempest is cool, from the abridgments I've read of it.
Remember: Back then, good writings were very rare. Fantasy barely existed, there weren't many big novels, most of which were pretty unrealistic...
When Shakespeare and Doyle and Twain and Schulz came along, people were dying for some decent writing/plays/cartoons. Amusing, realistic plays, realistic, interesting novels, cynical, actually funny, realistic cartoons...
That's my exdplanation. Also, Garfield SUCKS!
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXIX: Where we talk about bears....
Oh, Shakespeare found ways to put in humor here and there if you know where* to look... although a lot of it is lost on modern readers.
*I am using the right form of where, right? It's been bugging my for ages, even though I'm a native English Speaker (From the Geeky state of Wisconsin, Birthplace of both D&D and, if I've heard correctly, Magic: The Gathering. It's probably the winters).Steam ID: The Great Squark
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2009-11-16, 07:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXIX: Where we talk about bears....
A lot of shakespeare's humor is actually really raunchy. Read "The Taming of the Shrew".
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp, i’faith you are too angry.
Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
Petruchio: My remedy is then to pluck it out.
Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies.
Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.
Katherine: In his tongue.
Petruchio: Whose tongue?
Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tales, and so farewell.
Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail?Last edited by Darklord Bright; 2009-11-16 at 07:45 PM.
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Re: ABR Discussion Thread XXIX: Where we talk about bears....
Not really, I can sympathise (Well, my teacher kinda told us we needed to choose between British and American and you see... Sorry) with much crazier people. It's just that they all are high class and the plot is pretty political and I'm neither, The Lion King was a better story even though it's the same one since I understood their motivation and what the heck was going on.
Oh and there's not a thing that's "rotten" in the state of Denmark, it is and has since the 11th century been A KINGDOM
Yes you are, "where" is referring to place and "were" refers to having been. "where" is one of the question words and they all start with "wh" as in what and when, that's the way I remember it at least.Treasured Quotes
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Abridgments? Really, you've read "Abridgments". I fear for our youth. Hamlet is a very great play, and yes, he's a little bit crazy, but that dosn't mean his motivations are too outlandish to be understandable.
If this be madness, there be a method to it.
But seriously, see the plays (Done well), read the actual texts, not Abridgments. Then you can talk about Shakespeare.
However, Garfield does, indeed, suck. Well, kind of. Individually, it's comics are mediocre, a nice bit of simple humor for the funny pages, nothing special, but good for the occasional chuckle over breakfast. It sucks when taken as a whole, at which point you realize it's formula is totally unchanging, that the comic could easily have been produced by a machine.
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Not to mention that Jim Davis once admitted that he does Garfield solely for commercial purposes.
You misunderstood me, though. I was saying that BECAUSE I've only read abridgments, I'm not reliable. I am fully aware of how much they can suck.
I also know Hamlet has a method to his madness. I'm saying it's hard to sympathize with some of the things he does. If I'd killed someone by accident, I wouldn't keep up the crazy act.
Hamlet is, by definition, a tragedy. It's only fair that everybody should go a bit crazy.Last edited by The Gremlin; 2009-11-17 at 10:12 AM.
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Very well.
Also, Davis is bland because he takes no risks. Look at Gary Larson, generally considered to be one of the greatest cartoonists. Read through the Far Side Gallery, which talks how he constantly got complaints and how his editors rejected Cartoons. He Danced on the edge (sometimes unintentionally) and produced greatness.
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It uses elements of and is based of one of them, I presumed it was Hamlet and thus found it appropiate... I even mentioned them being the same story.
I by the way like that movie, it was my favourite movie as a child and I still think it's a good movie
@BRC: I read the Danish translation - Fortunately I don't need to know anything about the original as that's not the point of our English classes - which is a lot closer than abridgements and I still don't like it. I believe that qualifies me to say it weren't interesting to me, granted not many realistic stories are.
But I know nothing of anything else by Shakespeare, what's Macbeth about for example?Last edited by Mina Kobold; 2009-11-17 at 10:17 AM.
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Reading the Translation would explain the problem. Shakespeare is great, not because of the Plots, but because of the writing (which is why it should really be seen, or at least heard). I could tell you the plot of Macbeth, but that wouldn't tell you a thing about why it's considered so great.
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