How many of you realised that today's questions were gleaned from the Complete Works of Shakespeare?

Question

All of them, including the one about yoiur favourite chair and the Weetabix and I apologise for misspelling 'realize'.

Agggghhhhhh 'your' not 'yoiur' of course. My fingers are seizing up with the cold. I have no heating on.

Answer 1

I think I might have mentioned him in an answer!
and you didn't misspell realised. Not if you are English anyway!

In English it's r e a l i s e d ! in American it's r e a l i z e d!

I guess some American doesn't know that, and why the heck should it matter?

Hang on........ Weetabix!!!!!! Where is that from?

Answer 2

I have never heard a gas burner called an "eye" before. Is that a regional term? Anyhow, this is certainly not taking the Lord's name in vain. An involuntary utterance, standing alone, simply cannot be TtLNiV. However, I disagree with the answerers that see a spiritual outcry to God in your story. If you weren't calling out to God, then you weren't calling out to God. An atheist is probably about equally likely to use that particular phrase in a similar situation. Did you mean anything categorically different than you would have meant if "Oh s***" or even "Oh Hell" had blurted out instead? (I will admit, however, that given your own personal predilections, I assign a higher probability to your having meant something specifically God-related than I would have if it were almost anyone else yelling "Oh God", so if your answer is "yes", then I withdraw this paragraph). In fact, I think taking an involuntary excited utterance and trying to superimpose a spiritual/prayerful intent that was never really there comes closer to TtLNiV than the utterance itself, because it is wedging a falsehood into an otherwise harmless incident (or, if you do think this was TtLNiV , it would amount to wedging a falsehood into an otherwise harmful incident, in which case it's even worse because it's making excuses to get around admitting the sin occurred). Would your answerers be so eager to make the same excuses if an atheist called out "Oh God" in these circumstances? If not, then they are also committing the sin of hypocricy. In any case, (1) that particular commandment is primarily about swearing frivolous or false oaths in God's name, not about just using it, and (2) "God" is not God's name, just as "woman" is not your name. Mostly, I think it's a little sad that you would worry that an excited utterance such as this, under these circumstances, with no ill intent, could possibly constitute a sin that needs forgiving in the first place. I'm glad your cats are OK. Btw: I think Dusty Scribe is applying the quote backwards -- that quote is about wanting and intending to pray without knowing how or what to say, and an inarticulate groan that sounds nothing like a prayer being sufficient, whereas your situation is about saying something very specific that has the words of a prayer, but the intent or desire to pray being absent or at least unclear.

Answer 3

"Gleaned" from the complete works of Shakespeare? Why, of course! They are "gleaned." Thankfully, not "cleaned!" But, my answers, shall not be gleaned from any source - they'll be original - and my own! To the best of my ability. I wonder, and am even skeptical (U.S spell.), that you shall not appreciate my efforts, as my surmise is that you would prefer, the answers also to be gleaned from Shakespeare! Quite logical, for an ardent student of Shakespeare...

Answer 4

of course, it was naturally obvious. Bloody transparent. especially all of the questions that fall into the category specifically for the intelligentsia.....and are thusly prosed as such: "So whut does ya'll thinks doez he lyk me or what?? like OMG!!!" and also "OMG like, am i pretty? Rate my pic on a scale of 1-10!" and of course, "I just ate a poppy seed bagel, and i let a guy touch my boobie, could i be pregnant?!!!" and.... let's not forget the age old questions of extreme literary tact and full of social graces on the topics of flatulency and belching.

Lol..... Yes, i agree, today's Q&A on Y!A was well worthy of Shakespearen prose.

.... " I am dead Horatio. Wretched Queen Adieu!..." lol. ♥

By the way, you did not mis-spell the word realise. That's the proper way to spell it!

*edit* *sighs*...... yes, I just noticed the question in P&S phrased, "To smoke the doobie or not to smoke the doobie - that is the question?"..... *sighs*....

Answer 5

A favourite chair?

Answer 6

What about the Chair one?

xxR

Answer 7

Not me 'cos I started with this - your last - question! But I'm sure I would have realised!!!

Answer 8

'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph... (K. Henry IV, Part 2, Scene III)

Answer 9

To be honest I had no idea where your questions came from.

Answer 10

What light through thy Yahoo window breaks?......