Wait, wouldn’t Fozzie be the perfect Friar Laurence?
I’m so confused.
Oh, hey, what about this: Bert & Ernie as R&J instead?
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Fozzie can’t play everyone, and Mercutio is not only Romeo’s BFF but also the guy with the most “Wokka Wokka” moments. I’m mostly thinking Honeydew for Laurence because he could work the apothecary angle.
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distilling liquor drink thou off;
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest.
It’s perfectly safe; I’ve tested it on my assistant Beaker here!
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You’ve convinced me!
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Too similar to the genre of one of their earlier films?
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I was disappointed, too. Also disappointed that the historical figure in question didn’t literally dismount from a swan.
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I would pay to see a one man show of Fozzie attempting Romeo and Juliet.
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That sounds like something Gonzo would attempt, only with some kind of ill-advised life-threatening stunt thrown in for good measure.
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True. Gonzo did Merchant of Venice in a major feat of death-defying intellectualism never seen before.
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/makes a note to not take “SWF” in ads for granted.
Before the Great Vowel Shift, when most of the vowels were driven out of Eastern Europe, many settling in Wales.
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erm:
English letter frequency:
e t a o i n s r h l d c u m f p g w y b v k x j q z
Cymraeg letter frequency:
a y n d r e i l o g h w t f u s c m b p â ô y^ w^ j ï ê á q v î (k x z)
what extra vowels?
when I, as an English monoglot look at Welsh, I see double l’s and double d’s. Perhaps I am used to seeing dipthongs in British English.
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Stayed there once when I was climbing Snowdon. Wettest holiday I ever had.
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W, I think.
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Even our sitting president got this one wrong once.
Speaking as someone who writes multiple choice questions quite a lot, let me just say that the “28 member states” question is a classic example of a bad question. You’ll not only catch the people who are completely clueless, you’ll also catch people who know the approximate number but assume the question is a trick. The reason one often has people scoring much worse than chance on T/F exams is because the examinee can often come up with a possibly convoluted argument as to why an assertion is wrong.
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Puerto Rico is a state of the US.[/quote]
Again, I think this is not a good question. “Puerto Ricans are US citizens” would be a better one (and many Americans would still get it wrong). The technical distinction between “state” and “territory” is an important one, but in a T/F context it raises questions about what the actual intent of the question is.
I likewise don’t know if the EU questions are really fair ones in the UK, where the centuries-old tradition of treating the rest of Europe as a qualitatively different entity means they’ve never been acutely aware of the difference between (say) France and Belgium in the same way that the Germans have had to be. The Swiss/EU issue might be part of the daily discourse in continental EU countries, but if it is not as ubiquitous in British media then it isn’t a shock if British people are less aware of it than their counterparts across the channel.
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Not to mention that the UK government is APPOINTED by said monarch, whereas the EU Commission is, in fact, elected - just not directly by the people but by their representatives in the Council. All national governments all of which have also been elected indirectly… On top, the Commission gets confirmed (or not) by the European parliament before it can take office. Quite unlike the UK government which can take office without parliamentary support - they only need that once they want to actually do something - which for a laissez faire government like the current one is basically only when they want to sell public property or abolish public services.
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you’re comparing apples and pears because look, a three-headed monkey!
I think that misses the point. The question are ridiculously easy for anyone who has paid attention. Identification with the EU is precisely what that poll is measuring. That the contingent of exceptionalists who delude themselves into thinking that they have less reason to know those things than continentals is reflected in the results is not a bug but a feature.
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You mean the continent of exceptionalists? Even with paying attention it isn’t so easy in the UK, as you’re not hammered with the information; details of the EU structure is not regular fare in the Daily Mail. That is not an individual choice, but the choice of the news establishment.
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You mean the continent of exceptionalists?[/quote]
Certainly not. I apologize for any bad English.
Even with paying attention it isn’t so easy in the UK, as you’re not hammered with the information; details of the EU structure is not regular fare in the Daily Mail. That is not an individual choice, but the choice of the news establishment.
I know that the UK discourse on the EU has its issues, like people who should know better happily keeping the vile “free trade zone” myth alife. However I have trouble believing that in the UK it is that hard to come by information on a whole level of your own political system.
