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Is it Yorick?

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1. At 12:49 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Lady Emma Hamilton wrote:

   Eddie:

   (1) Are you using us as a laboratory for a new career as a cryptic crossword setter?

   or

   (2) Are you practising your northern dialects?

2. At 12:54 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Big Sister wrote:

   Hm. So that's where you've been, Eddie. Rehearsing for audtion for the Newsteam's summer production of Hamlet.

   Who's providing the skull, by the way?

3. At 12:58 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Carl wrote:

   Oh Sir Mair , fellow of infinte jest, how your blog entries becometh shorter. Like you dear Eddie, Yorick was full of jokes and merriment, but unlike your goodself, disliked gravity and seriousness. However similar to the Mairmeister, he poked at serious people. Seriousness, he said, "was a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind". What a great strapline for the PM blog. I shall suggest it Sire.

4. At 01:00 PM on 27 Mar 2007, wrote:

   It may have been.

   Alas, I knew him well.....

   And a good choice for the Froggers to ponder on. Here's Hamlet Act 3, scene ii;

   Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
   Polonius: By th' Mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.

   Surely a link to the Beach!

   Si.

5. At 01:01 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Fearless Fred wrote:

   Maybe it's Rosencrantz or Guildenstern....

6. At 01:06 PM on 27 Mar 2007, witchiwoman wrote:

   Rather him than Yorvik....bad childhood memories. By the way, really liked todays newsletter, bit of a classic I think!

7. At 01:07 PM on 27 Mar 2007, The Reverend Green wrote:

   Eddie,

   Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? What about the time gap before the bongs? Alas, PM Eddie too much and too many by far! Mind the Gap..the gap!

8. At 01:07 PM on 27 Mar 2007, wrote:

   Maybe its Macbeth.

9. At 01:18 PM on 27 Mar 2007, wrote:

   Is something rotten in the state of Denmark then?

   Or are you having Act 2 thoughts about work today?;

   More matter, with less art.
   Gertrude, scene ii

   Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
   Hamlet: Words, words, words.
   scene ii

   (Aside.) Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
   Polonius, scene ii

   There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
   Hamlet, scene ii

   Si.

10. At 01:22 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Mrs Barnfather. wrote:

    Edward,

    I don't expect you to finish the homework. Just do as much as you can this evening.

11. At 01:24 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Mark wrote:

    Alas poor Edie Mair, I knew him well.

    If you don't come up with better schtick than this Mr. Mair, that will be your epitaph here too.

12. At 01:27 PM on 27 Mar 2007, wrote:

    ". . . a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. . ."

    Nah, couldn't be.

13. At 01:39 PM on 27 Mar 2007, silver-fox wrote:

    Ah, Sweet Swan of Avon!

14. At 02:02 PM on 27 Mar 2007, wrote:

    wha?

    Eddie mentions a hot drink at bed time and everyone starts speaking funny.

    Is this about drugs?

    
    oh, hold on...

15. At 02:03 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Eric Delko wrote:

    It's too soon to tell if it's Yorik, Calleigh. Alexx is still working on him. Looks pretty messed up to me.

16. At 02:09 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Big Sister wrote:

    Night Mair

    This is the PM newsreporter
    Bringing the news from every quarter,
    Reports from Belfast, news from Baghdad
    Some of it good but most of it bad
    Crossing the borders, watching the lines
    The deadlines are tough, but he’s on time.

    Thro’ many a schedule he rampages
    His editor’s eye upon the gauges.
    Panting up through breaking news
    Fending off outrageous views.
    Striding forward with humour light
    ‘Gainst stubborn bigots and friends alike.
    Winding up the hour towards the bongs
    Thro’ the clatter and the chatter and the news overhead.
    Past business news and sports successes
    With little ad libs to lower the stresses,
    Smiling silently against the eye
    Of the glittering webcam there up high.

    Froggers wonder as he moves his lips
    Staring from the webcam at his rugby strips
    Nobody can turn his course
    (As if anybody would, of course!)
    In homebound cars no one demurs
    But turn up the sound when his voice is heard.
    
    5.55, the work’s nearly done
    Letting up the flow, the programme descends
    Towards the weather and news coming up at six
    Towards the formal voice of the news presenters
    Working from hard wrought scripts.
    All Britain has listened to him:
    In the Blog Pond, beside their flickering screens,
    Froggers long for a mention.

    Posts of thanks, posts without franks,
    Posts of joy from the girl and the boy
    Acknowledgement of points unseen
    By other froggers or the PM team,
    And simulations of declarations
    And simple statement of situations
    And gossip, gossip from all the nations,

    News circumstantial, news financial,
    Emails with holiday snaps to enlarge in,
    Emails with birthday cards scrawled in the margin,
    Emails from uncles, cousins, and aunts,
    Emails about Scotland and the South of France,
    Emails of thanks about Ireland and such land
    Emails from overseas to Hebrides
    Written on computers of every hue,
    The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,
    The chatty, the catty, the boring, adoring,
    The cold and official and the heart's outpouring,
    Clever, stupid, short and long,
    The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong.

    Thousands are still awake
    Dreaming of having their emails read,
    Or of a friendly word from their urbane host:
    Awake in working Glasgow, awake in well-set Edinburgh,
    Awake in granite Aberdeen,
    They continue listening,
    And then, farewell, the bongs alas
    (Though none will ever hear them crashed)
    As in a flash hour has passed
    Though, have no fear, it’s not forgotten.
    
    

17. At 02:11 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Dozy Parker wrote:

    "Are the commentators on "Hamlet" really mad, or only pretending to be.
    
    Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

18. At 02:14 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Eddie Mair wrote:

    Big Sis (16) GOSH!

19. At 02:22 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Big Sister wrote:

    Thank you, Eddie. Glad you enjoyed it.

    I omitted to mention the Newsletter when I adapted Auden's wonderful poem for you, but then again the Newsletter appears to forget me - or, at least, I appear to be an afterthought, so perhaps my omission was appropriate :-)

20. At 02:23 PM on 27 Mar 2007, wrote:

    BigSis (16);
    Knocked out!!

    Amazing stuff, 'well done' doesn't even begin to cover it.

    Si. :-}

21. At 02:26 PM on 27 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Big Sister - 10/10

22. At 02:30 PM on 27 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Mrs Barnfather! I thought you were dead!!!!

    My essay will be in first thing tomorrow, I promise.

    Fiona

23. At 02:34 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Robert Browning wrote:

    Big Sister (16) You're a star!

24. At 02:36 PM on 27 Mar 2007, silver-fox wrote:

    Big Sister (16)

    Ah, Sweet Swan of Sussex :-)

25. At 04:03 PM on 27 Mar 2007, The Stainless Steel Cat wrote:

    Big Sister (16):

    Wow!

    Shall I compare thee to a cracking good poet?
    Thou art more iambic than a pentameter.
    Rough words do shake my humble posts,
    And Eddie's "Gosh" hath all too short a date,
    Sometime the pause before the bongs drags,
    And often is such silence dim;
    And every post on Blog sometime declines,
    With limericks of over-extended lines.
    But thy eternal rhyming shall not miss.
    Nor lose the shine of that fair Big Sis;
    Nor shall Chris Evans brag thou wand'rest on his blog,
    When in this Frog is spawned such lines,
    So long as the newsletter arrives ere five,
    So long lives this, and this gives laughs to us.

26. At 04:07 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Sweet Swan of Sussex wrote:

    Thanks, silver-fox, robbie, si, and WWoman.

    If it doesn't confuse me with SSC, perhaps I should 'transmogriphy' into SSS? or 3xS?

27. At 04:42 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Big Sister wrote:

    Stainless: Thou art peerless!

    Cheers to thee for thy fine and well wrought verse.

    Should we publish?

28. At 05:15 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Val P wrote:

    Yes indeed, Big Sis, SSC, Frances O and all other previous poyum contributors, how about a Froggers' Golden Treasury? Money to the same charity as the Froggers' Chorus. We could become a Brand??

    I could make cakes. Ah - no - wrest me from the realms of fantasy on that last one please - see other thread for details :o/

29. At 05:51 PM on 27 Mar 2007, The Stainless Steel Cat wrote:

    Big Sis (28):

    Publish and be darned!

    As for "Transmoggification"... I thought this moggy had just sorted out its gender to everyone's satisfaction...?

    Re: the busker who's just been on. He clearly wasn't very good; that was the worst version of "Blowin' In The Wind" I've ever heard busked.

30. At 06:19 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    Big Sis (16), I need to add a "wow". WOW!!! Well done.

    SSCat (29) Tee hee hee! Silly moggy.

    Call me a Sociologist, but, strictly speaking:
    sex -- male or female;
    gender -- masculine or feminine.

    A, x.

31. At 07:27 PM on 27 Mar 2007, Frances O wrote:

    Wonderful, Big Sis and SSC!

32. At 10:28 PM on 27 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Super poems. I am so impressed by your work.A+++ and would you like a place at Cambridge, either of you? What's that - your parents went to university? Oh, I'm so sorry. Offer withdrawn unfortunately.

33. At 10:29 PM on 27 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Brilliant Big Sis! That deserves a read out on the programme!

    Or the acceptance speech at a well known up and coming awards ceremony.

    Mary

34. At 09:08 AM on 28 Mar 2007, The Stainless Steel Cat wrote:

    Aperitif (30):

    Call me a Sociologist,

    OK, You're... no. Too obvious, even for me.

    but, strictly speaking:
    sex -- male or female;
    gender -- masculine or feminine.

    Ah, but can a virtual personality have sex? (Um... you know what I mean.) Or can it only have gender?
    

35. At 11:27 AM on 28 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    SSCat (34) Re can a virtual personality have sex/ I'm not sure. How might we find out?

    THERE IS NO MALICE IN MY SPEEDINESS!

36. At 02:09 PM on 28 Mar 2007, The Stainless Steel Cat wrote:

    Aperitif (35):

    I'm not sure. How might we find out?

    Dunno. Start with virtual flowers & virtual choccies?

    ;o)

37. At 02:51 PM on 28 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    My dear SSCat (36), Well it's a start. Virtual dating next? Or do Virtual Personalties dispense with that sort of thing? I'd rather like to think they were inclined to the romantic...