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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Even assuming you receive a cranial trauma serious enough to make "Shakespeare as portrayed by prune-headed aliens" seem like a good idea, why would you ever pick the goddamn romantic comedy? Of all the Bard's works, this is the one that benefits least from a warrior culture and a language that sounds like you're choking on a furball. Hamlet would work, and be 20 times shorter as it would skip directly to the final scene where everyone kills each other. Macbeth would no longer be driven mad, cursed and slaughtered for his regicide:

MhaQ'Beth: I've just killed the king!

Klingon population: Awesome! Hail King MhaQ'Beth!

Macbeth: w00t!

Or how about Othello, where things would have gone much easier for everyone:

I'agHo: My lord, I fear your wife is unfaithful with ...

OKHel'lo: How dare you, you filthy P'tagh!

[beheads I'agHo]

--Luke McKinney, Cracked.com


29 posted on 08/31/2010 10:51:31 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

31 posted on 08/31/2010 11:02:37 AM PDT by day10 (Integrity has no need of rules.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I like Star Trek. So shoot me with your phaser. ;-)


32 posted on 08/31/2010 11:06:57 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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