Newsletter#2--Shakespearean Insults

Issue No.2:
August 30th, 1997 SO FAR THERE ARE [37] MEMBERS!!

**NOTICES**
1.School is starting....I just had it today:-). So from now on the Shakespearean Insults Newsletter shall change into two issues per month. Sorry of some of you are looking foward to weekly, my mother won't let me live in this completely:-(.

2.As I said, school is starting. I don't know if insult updates every Wednesday and Sunday can hold but I will email you all telling you how school turns out and if the insults are two a week or one a week. Thanks.

3. There is a Club Members Page and a Members word page in the Club part of my page. If you want anything on it, please email me.... 4. Many thanks to all who participated, especially for Paul and Christina for their excellent articles...

====Section 1: Cracker's Words====

Well, I guess the first thing that I should say about this is that at least this thing survived and made it to a second issue. If it could live for 10 more I guess I would really have my first (first?) throw a celebration. Anyway, so far participation isn't all that high unfortuantly but that was part of what I expected. Like I said, it's a matter of survival isn't it? As usual I am still awaiting and hoping for a change in this but if it holds on, I guess I can also live with that:-). So if you want something written over here for our 35 members to read, just email them to me and don't ponder, writing it couldn't make you worse right? I am adding a few other sections into this newsletter, a couple that have nothing to do with Shakespeare at all. No particular reason, just that i thought that if this was just pure Shakespeare, some of you might get tired of it or maybe I'd get tired writign about it first right? It would be a nice idea to have other things holding in this newsletter. Shakespearean Insults is still the theme of this newsletter and the main reason that I started this as I said before is hope to start a discussion with pationate people in this subject. I have gotten to know some people who share such passion and I am glad in doing so. So as usual, let's wish this all luck and like the last newsletter and every newsletter after it: IF YOU ARE A SHAKESPEARE-MANIAC, SHOW IT! Benjamin AKA Cracker AKA Shakespearean Insults E-MAIL: < ics@ms10.hinet.net > SHAKESPEARE INSULT PAGE:
< http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Delphi/9676/index.html >

====Section 2: Shakespeare Insults of this Issue====
(All quoted from previous Shakespearean-Insult-of-the-Week)

I would set an ox-head to your lion's hide and make a monster of you.
----King John 2. 1. 292-93

I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fubbed off, from this day to that day, that is a shame to be thought on.
----Henry IV Part 2 2. 1. 32-35

====Section 3: The Shakespearean Style Name-Calling Contest====

I am sorry to say that so far there are NO participations in the contest. It's not that hard, just insult in Shakespearean Lingo. But anyway, this section is always here if any of you come up with something. If there are no insults for the issue, then I'll add a couple of my own below for you to use and try to keep in mind. It can come useful, believe me. As it was said: "Never be at a loss of words again."

You murderous scolding crookback! You king of clowns without a nose! You milk livered man!!

Send your own insults or if you have none, think up one! It's fun and easy and most important--POWERFUL!!

====Section 4: Readers' Insult (Quote)====
If you want to make yourself known, then curse in the newsletter! So far nobody has said that they wanted to write to this but many have given me their own insult(s). I shall quote.

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OPHELIA: I think nothing my lord HAMLET: That's a fair thought to lie between maid's Legs

OPHELIA: 'Tis brief my lord HAMLET: As woman's love James AKA Icicle <jimbo@vianet.net.au> < http://www.vianet.net.au:81/~jimbo/ >
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"Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune! Why strewest thou sugar on that bottled spider..."
----Richard III I,iii,240-1 Mike "The One and Only Nerd"
< ssnag@oocities.com >
Secret Socioty of Nerds and Geeks: < http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Delphi/9103/index.html >
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Thanks to these two for their Insults!! Email them or visit their page if you like it. EMAIL YOUR OWN INSULTS!! WE WELCOME THEM!!

====NEW!! Section 5: Readers' Witty Insult (NON SHAKESPEAREAN)====
If you got an insult which has WIT from a novel, a movie, a classmate...send them over. Insults are a neccessity of life. You can never be friends to everybody and if you want to argue (not debate, nasty argue) with somebody, you don't want to lose. Write your own insults and send this to me if you can't get a "Shakespearean Lingo" into you!! (Many thanks to Lyle for the suggestion!!)

"I fart in your general direction. Your Father was a hamster and your Mother smelt of eldaberries!"
----Lyle AKA Lord of Chaos
< Neutrality@juno.com > < http://www.angelfire.com/nv/lpb >

WRITE TO ME YOUR OWN INSULTS NOW.......

========READERS SECTION========

====Section 6: RainbowBrite's Article for the Issue: More than the Masks==== (From Cracker: Sorry I butt into this but let me again thank RainbowBrite for her inspiration, participation, and passion for the entire Shakespearean Insult thing. She has part in every idea from my handle in CHATphiles to the Shakespeare Page to this newsletter)

We are all more than the masks we hide behind the mask of a chatters, mom, dad, sister, brother more than a student, employee, employer, friend, aquiantence we are all much more! Somewhere inside of each and every person there is something that makes them unique, but many times in life all we see is the mask, the mask of age, rank, race the mask of poverty and grace. My message for you this second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, century and beyond is to stop the masquerade, do away with the mask and live on!

"All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts."

Jaques As You Like It 2.7 (From Cracker: This is a famous one:-)...)

The speech above is from the William Shakespeare play 'As You Like It'. In plain English it is saying that life is a stage and the people in it are the actors, almost always acting according to the script which is society or otherwise some unknown source. The people in life are always trying on a new mask made by someone else who doesn't know them, someone who doesn't care. What is wrong with "hiding behind a mask" u might be asking Š there are many things, it could be that you wre letting other people run your life, by wrting the script and designing your costume, or maybe you have worn the mask of society way too long and just need to feel the wind against your face, to know that what I am saying is not just made up but the truth. So pull off your mask and let the wind blow in your face, do away with the assumptions and stereotypes of society and remember we are all more than the masks we hide behind.

Christina Rivers AKA RainbowBrite
< raincmr@hotmail.com > (Mail to her what you think!!)

====Section 7: Paul's Lecture of the Issue: King Lear====
(Cracker again: Many many thanks to Pal for giving me his great support on this!!)

*Taps the microphone in front of him*Is this thing on?Testing..Testing...*Coughs loudly and blushes*Right.Hi! Names Pal. Pleased 2 meet y'all! Theres a few out there I do know already..*Glances over at Lobsty* and the rest of U I haven't had the pleasure yet. My good friend Ben wants me to give y'all a little lecture on Shakespeare for his EXCELLENT newsletter. Hes put a lot of work in it, and the least we can do is put a little something to it.

Shakespeare has been a intrest for me 4 a few years now, ever since I was given a chance 2 learn about Hamlet *S* A favorite 4 actors everywhere...Anyways, 4 the past year in school, I've been studying King Lear as part of my English Literature course, and found it to be one of the most intresting plays I've come across for quite a while now, but then, it IS Shakespeare, aint it?:) For those of U who haven't read it, I'll tell U a little about it....

Basically, its a play about madness. 4 the most part of the play, we see King Lears desent into madness as he banishes those who R closest 2 him, and surounds himself with those who want nothing more from him than his kingdom. He is rejected by every1 except the Fool and Kent, a banished Lord who disguises himself as a simple servant 2 look after Lear. The most touching part of the play is at the height of his rage and at the border of madness as he is on the heath during a terrible storm. He calls on the Gods to destroy the Earth with the elements and he damns all those who reject him. Shakespeare fills this play with inuendos and double edged words speaking through all his characters. He gives his view on Loyalty, Regality, and gets in plenty on insults*S* Something which we all enjoy, hmm? By far the best piece is Kents insults for Oswald(From Cracker again: Listen closely all!!):

"[I know thee 4] A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats, a base, proud, shallow, beggerly, three-suited hundred-pound, filthy wortsed-stocking knave, a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson glass-glazing super-seviceable finical rogue, one trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldest be a bawd in a way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and hier of a mongerel bitch, one whom I will beat into a clamourous whining, it thou deni'st the least syllable of thy addition" ... *Takes a deep gasp* Imagine saying all THAT in one breath!HAHAHA!!! To finish off, I'd like to once again suggest that U check this book out. It has everything that we've all come to know and love of Shakespeare..:)

Thanx! Paul AKA Pal
< gw41@dial.pipex.com >
(E-Mail him and know him, Friendliness garanteed!!:-)...)

Write E-mail your article to me if you want YOUR section in the article!!
PS. It's YOUR section (OK if it's Non Shakespearean. I'll open a non Shakespearean Reader's Section for you!!)
========END OF READERS SECTION========

====NEW!!Section 8: Members' List and New Members====
Right now I am trying to make up a list of members (It's going to be long...) and the default of your information is NAME and EMAIL. If you want ANYTHING ELSE WRITTEN such as your age, gender, handle (Email me if you don't want your real name written), HOMEPAGE URL AND A DESCRIPTION OF THINGS TO SAY TO THE CLUB....EMAIL them to me. A COMPLETE list of members will be on in the next issue and after that this shall be A NEW MEMBERS' SECTION.

PS. What is written about you in the next issue will be put on my Club List Page.

====HALF NEW!!Section 9: Readers' Words====
So far there are NO readers writing anything here.

I have decided to change the description to this section. As before, you can write anything you want here however long or however short that you want to write it such as "There was a typhoon the day the day the day that I left Lucy" (If there's somebody else in the club who will understand that). But for right now, what I think I'll ask for to write here is A COMMERCIAL AND DESCRIPTION TO YOUR HOMEPAGE!! That's it! So send me a description of your homepage, and email them to me. We'll try to make sure that the thirty some other friendly members will visit it. So if you think you don't have enough people in your GREAT page....email a commercial to me!! (don't forget the URL :-)...) (PS to Mike: I really like your page and it's a pity that there aren't even ten nerds in your club...write something for me to put it here, I'm sure we'll get more nerds into our club:-)...)

====END OF ISSUE: Cracker's Last Words====
If you ask me, I must say that this second issue IS STILL A SUCCESS and I thank you all who helped make it one. Oh, and due to the fact that school has started, this might be the longest newsletter that I have written, or maybe not, depends on how school turns out. If it does turn out short...well, I guess I'll really need your help to lenghthen it....Again, many thanks for joining this club that means so much to me. Till the next issue/update!!

PS. Next issue on September 15th!!! Write what you may before Sept. 14th!! PPS. I just got ICQ and I'm still learning how to use this thing...I'd be glad if any of you could help!:)

Love ya all, Benjamin AKA Cracker AKA Shakespearean Insults EMAIL ME AT <ics@ms10.hinet.net>

VISIT MY PAGE AT
< http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Delphi/9676/index.html >

August 30th, 1997

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