We have heard the giraffe at midnight

[thisbluespirit]

So, as I mentioned in my last 100 Things post, giraffes is a really good word to stick in the Shakespeare Quote Generator.

This post is probably mainly for my own amusement, really:

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless giraffe!

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite giraffe.

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Blow, winds, and crack your giraffe!

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This above all: to thine own giraffe be true.

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This was the most unkindest giraffe of all.

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The tempter or the giraffe, who sins most?

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O! I am fortune's giraffe!

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It is the giraffe,
The giraffe above us, govern our conditions.

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He jests at scars that never felt a giraffe.

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The giraffe doth protest too much, methinks.

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And now I need to go away for a bit, but that was your Thursday am wake-up Nonsense Post with giraffes. Thank you.

Comments

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

oh very good! love it :))

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

OMG! This is glorious. I feel the urge to answer to each and every one of those. :D

I won't though. Just a few.

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless giraffe!" - ALL GIRAFFES ARE THANKLESS!

"This was the most unkindest giraffe of all." - BUT THEY'RE ALL UNKIND.

"The tempter or the giraffe, who sins most?" - THE GIRAFFE.

"It is the giraffe,
The giraffe above us, govern our conditions." - OMG SHAKESPEARE KNEW THE TRUTH!!!!!!

:D Thank you for this. What a great way to start the day.

[thisbluespirit]

The tempter or the giraffe, who sins most?" - THE GIRAFFE.

I KNEW YOU WOULD SAY THAT. I looked at that one and thought, pitry would blame the giraffe.

:lol:

It was... weird things happen when I'm too tired to sensibly reply to comments, apparently.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

pitry doesn't *blame* the giraffe. pitry simply recognises that it's all the giraffe's fault! :D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I always put "pants" in, and that works really well with most of these. :-D

[thisbluespirit]

:-) Pants is good, but giraffe just has a nice unexpected quality. And, really, it is partly due to pitry and her theory that all giraffes are evil aliens trying to conquer the planet. Or something. It's sort of ended up becoming a Thing in the corners of LJ I inhabit. Along with ninja penguins.

(Much of this is to do with fic_rush, a comm where in theory we all encourage each other to write as much as possible over one weekend every month, but also seem to have garnered a menagerie of ninja penguins, alien fish, bonsai giraffes and probably some other things. Nobody can remember how that happened now.)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Like no one can remember (or tell me anyway) how penguins got into B7 fandom.

[thisbluespirit]

Penguins are like that. They get everywhere. ;-)

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Oh oh oh oh oh, I was giggling like a mad thing at the giraffes, and then I tried this and got Blow, winds, and crack your pants AND NOW I AM DEAD FROM LAUGHING

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

'Pants' is amazingly adaptable, but that has to be the winner!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

How now, you secret, black and midnight giraffe!


(And in the Shakespearean vein, I have picked up R3 - but H5 wasn't available so I'm waiting on it coming from elsewhere!)

[thisbluespirit]

:lol:

Cool! Also on similar lines, I left posting Fall of Eagles till after the weekend, because of you having plenty of TV, and then forgot, and then remembered I needed to rip a tiny bit first. Now I've remembered, ripped the bit, hopefully I'll post it tomorrow for you. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

:D

Ah - okay. I was thinking I should ask what had happened to that!

[thisbluespirit]

I posted Fall of Eagles yesterday, so... it'll either have reached you now, or should turn up on Monday. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

It hasn't - but no doubt it will on Monday.

I do now have Henry V - so should I watch Henry or Richard III first? Or doesn't it matter?

[thisbluespirit]

Is it the BBC Henry V? If so, you should probably watch it first. It is pretty bad, except for the play being amazing itself, and David Gwillim being v good in the title role. Also, it's chronological that way. :-) If it is the Brannagh or even the Olivier, you should watch it second, otherwise that is unfair to the BBC Richard III, which can never be as shiny as a film. (Richard III will however look brilliant if you've just been watching my dearly-beloved-but-really-terribly-bad version of Henry V where they all wear curtains.)

:-)

Or whichever you feel like. :lol:

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

It's the BBC Henry V - that's why I didn't get hold of it until today - Oxford Central library only had the Brannagh one. I had to request the BBC one from another branch.

Right, so Henry tomorrow and Richard on Monday. It's Shakespeare season, apparently, as I've been eyeing up King Lear and Comedy of Errors (both of which star Michael Kitchen)!

[thisbluespirit]

A Shakespeare Season sounds lovely to me!! :-)

I hope you like them both, anyway; lots of people really don't like the BBC versions, or some of them, particularly the Henriad, but I do like David Gwillim. And Alec McGowan is good as Chorus, and there's Julian Glover. And, if not, well, the Michael Kitchen ones must be okay!!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

To me too!

Well, I don't for one second believe Michael Kitchen's ever given a bad performance in his life - and given how long and steadily he's been in work, I'm sure I'm right on that score!

Anywho - I will report back - I'll probbaly blog about it on my Pers Books Tumblr, and then x-post to my LJ.

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

We few, we happy few, we band of giraffes . . .

[lolmac]

MacDuff was from his mother's giraffe untimely ripped!

O, what a rogue and peasant giraffe am I . . .

Now I have a great idea for starting the next round of the 'Rush.

Re: Once more unto the giraffe!!

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

Now I have a great idea for starting the next round of the 'Rush.

Okay, now you have to do the poll, and we all have to vote for the earliest possible weekend, because I am completely mind-boggled and intrigued.