Fortunately this baby was protected by the his dad's man-flu aura which allows the baby to experience the symptoms safely and without harm...this applies to both baby boys and girls...although when young ladies grow up this immunity is lost, it is thought due to the excessive application of orange makeup...it has been proven in clinical trials that air hostesses, tanning salon operatives, and generally any woman that thinks make-up should be worn like a mask usually succumbs to man-flu and perishes within 24 hours.

It is a sad loss, but does help to weed out the gene pool.

you're not a very good witch there, Paris.

The incantation is "double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble."

And i never thought of Madfrog as "Kermit" more like little Robin the Frog.

dmccarthy wrote:
you're not a very good witch there, Paris.

The incantation is "double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble."

And i never thought of Madfrog as "Kermit" more like little Robin the Frog.

Oh Dear!

An American, just mis-quoted Macbeth (known as the 'Scottish Play' to a Scottish lass.

May Hell have merci (pun intended) on your soul.

Leaping Salmon is quite correct mule, I did in fact mis-quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth. Although the incantation is very commonly quoted as, "Hubble,bubble, boil and trouble" Mr McCarthy rendered the quote acurately in his statement above.

1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.
3 WITCH. Harpier cries:-'tis time! 'tis time!
1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go
In the poison'd entrails throw.-
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,-
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
3 WITCH. Scale of dragon tooth of wolf
Witches' mummy maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark
Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark
Liver of blaspheming Jew
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,-
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingrediants of our caldron.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

Good for you Salmon, you certainly know your Shakespeare sweetie!!

Paris - thanks for noticing.


Mule - see what happens when you assume things?

Paris wrote:

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,


Haha, I did "The Scottish Play" for O'level. Showing my age

Anyway, in this context wouldn't it be toe of Madfrog.

*Cough

No 'u' in Caldron.

did you mean that Paris forgot the "u", or are you trying to say that I misspelled it?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cauldron
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caldron

Maybe Shakespeare did?
If you look at the spelling of Shakespeare, or more recently, Burns, the language is spelled all kinds of ways.
Just ragging on ya.

Yes, they are both variants - anyone know which way shakespeare himself spelled the word??

i personally don't, but that's the way language works. there are always changes happening. i remember when i was a child and my mother used to tell me not to say "ain't". it wasn't a real word as it was not in the dictionary.

<sighs> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ain%27t

i look at the "cauldron" spelling much like the difference between "gray" and "grey". it is more of a personal preference i think.

could be worse... we could be adding accent marks just to denote where a letter used to be <coughs> French <coughs>.

Grammar!! Which way Shakespeare (capital 's' ) spelled the word, himself?







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