do�dran�tal
adj., of nine inches in length
Say what you will about the French, they know how to build an elephant:
This one, proposed for the Champs-�lys�es in 1758, had air conditioning, a spiral staircase, and a drainage system in the trunk.
The French government said no. There's no accounting for taste.
|W|P|112275289779958816|W|P|Jumbo Jet|W|P|greg.ross@gmail.comMusic stars and their un-sexy real names:
- David Bowie - David Robert Hayward Stenton Jones
- Eric Clapton - Eric Patrick Clapp
- Alice Cooper - Vincent Damon Furnier
- Dido - Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong
- Bob Dylan - Robert Alan Zimmerman
- Jewel - Jewel Kilcher
- Mama Cass - Ellen Naomi Cohen
- Marilyn Manson - Brian Warner
- Meat Loaf - Marvin Lee Aday
- George Michael - Yorgos Panayiotou
- Nelly - Carnell Haynes, Jr.
- Lou Reed - Louis Firbank
- Busta Rhymes - Trevor Tahiem Smith
- Cliff Richard - Harry Webb
- Sade - Helen Folasade Adu
- Seal - Henry Olusegun Olumide Samuel
- Gene Simmons - Chaim Witz
- Cat Stevens - Steve Georgiou
- Sly Stone - Sylvester Stewart
- Ice T - Tracy Marrow
- Randy Travis - Randy Bruce Traywick
- Shania Twain - Eileen Regina Edwards
- Frankie Valli - Frank Castelluccio
- Eddie Vedder - Edward Louis Severson
Paul Revere's real name was Paul Revere.
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In the drinking-well
(Which the plumber built her)
Aunt Eliza fell —
We must buy a filter.
—Col. D. Streamer
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Sapphire Eagle ©|W|P|What a deliciously wicked thought... Rambling Rose Cottage|W|P|Very cute!Personality traits associated with various blood types, according to Japanese superstition:
Type A:
- Best traits: Conservative, reserved, patient, punctual, perfectionist, and good with plants.
- Worst traits: Introverted, obsessive, stubborn, and self-conscious. Anal retentive.
- Famous examples: George H.W. Bush, O.J. Simpson, Britney Spears
Type B:
- Best traits: Creative and passionate. Animal-loving. Optimistic and flexible.
- Worst traits: Forgetful, irresponsible, individualistic.
- Famous examples: Akira Kurosawa, Jack Nicholson, Luciano Pavarotti
Type AB:
- Best traits: Cool, controlled, rational. Sociable and popular. Empathic.
- Worst traits: Aloof, critical, indecisive, and unforgiving.
- Famous examples: John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger
Type O:
- Best traits: Ambitious, athletic, robust, and self-confident. Natural leaders.
- Worst traits: Arrogant, vain, and insensitive. Ruthless.
- Famous examples: Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth, John Lennon
Interestingly, Type A blood is the most common in Japan, while Type O is most common in the United States—and among Japanese prime ministers.
|W|P|112220714125124584|W|P|Personality and Blood Type|W|P|greg.ross@gmail.comIn 2002, charity fundraiser Lloyd Scott ran the London Marathon wearing a 120-pound deep-sea diving suit.
He finished the 26.2-mile course in five days, eight and a half hours—a record high.
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You can stop worrying about backward messages hidden in popular songs—they're totally pass� now. Examples:
- "Congratulations. You've just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the funny farm, Chalfont." (Pink Floyd, "Empty Spaces")
- "Anyone who is stupid enough to play this record backwards deserves what he is about to hear." (Bloodrock, "Gotta Find a Way")
- "Obey your parents. Do your homework. Winners don't do drugs." (Information Society, "Are Friends Electric?")
- "Time is important. You are wasting it by backmasking this song. You want me to say something about the devil or something? Okay—lalalalalalalala Satan." (K&H, "Dusty Road")
- "Wow, you must have an awful lot of free time on your hands." ("Weird Al" Yankovic, "I Remember Larry")
- "Devil shall wake up and eat Chef Boyardee Beefaroni." (The Bloodhound Gang, "Lift Your Head Up High")
- "I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh no, you're playing the record backwards. Watch out, you might ruin your needle." (The B-52s, "Detour Through Your Mind")
Maybe that's for the best; those congressional witch hunts were getting kind of scary. Saint Teresa of Avila said, "I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."
|W|P|112243050273226051|W|P|Satan, Schmatan|W|P|greg.ross@gmail.comControversial remarks attributed to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh:
- "If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
- When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed."
- To a British student in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to get eaten then?"
- To a Scottish driving instructor: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough for them to pass the driving test?"
- On a visit to the new Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, he told a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, "Deaf? No wonder you are deaf, standing so close to that racket."
- To an Australian aborigine: "Still throwing spears?"
- To the president of Nigeria, who was dressed in traditional Muslim robes: "You look like you're ready for bed."
- Seeing a poorly installed fusebox in an Edinburgh factory, Philip said it looked "like it was put in by an Indian."
- When a 12-year-old boy told the prince that he aspired to be an astronaut, he replied, "You're too fat."
Overheard during an extended tour of the HMS Boxer: "Not another fucking chamber."
|W|P|112249229618170965|W|P|"British Women Can't Cook"|W|P|greg.ross@gmail.comThe youngest confirmed mother in medical history is Lina Medina of Paurange, Peru, who gave birth to a 5.9-pound boy at age 5. The delivery was done through caesarian section; it's not known how she conceived the child. Her son, Gerardo, was raised believing that Lina was his sister.
|W|P|112128661927542491|W|P|Freudian Skip|W|P|greg.ross@gmail.comThe creation-evolution controversy, as told in car emblems:
Christians started by displaying the "ichthys," a secret symbol used in the early church:
Evolutionists countered with the "Darwin fish":
Christians upped the ante with the "truth fish":
And now Darwinians have escalated to a tyrannosaurus:
The jury's still out. "My theory of evolution," says Steven Wright, "is that Darwin was adopted."
|W|P|112239796753277305|W|P|Auto-Da-Fe|W|P|greg.ross@gmail.comAre the X-Men human? Purists might like to debate that for a while, but the U.S. Court of International Trade went ahead and decided on Jan. 3, 2003: They're not.
Why force a decision? Because there are two kinds of action figures: human figures are "dolls," and nonhuman creatures are "toys." And dolls carry a higher tariff, for some reason. Toy Biz, Marvel's gaily named subsidiary, argued that its action figures were toys, and after examining more than 60 action figures, Judge Judith Barzilay agreed.
That saved Marvel some money, but it sent a thunderclap through the comics world, where the doughty mutants had been struggling for years to prove their humanity. After an awkward silence, Marvel grinned nervously, tugged at its collar, and said, "Our heroes are living, breathing human beings—but humans who have extraordinary abilities. ... A decision that the X-Men figures indeed do have 'nonhuman' characteristics further proves our characters have special, out-of-this world powers." Spun like a pro.
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adj. of or pertaining to puppet shows
|W|P|111828415861528133|W|P|In a Word|W|P|greg.ross@gmail.com Bad Tom Swifties: Are there any good ones? "No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business." -- Mikhail Baryshnikov An optical illusion. Move your nose toward the dot in the center. All-time best-selling music artists: Alla Pugacheva is a Russian popular singer active since 1965. Greece's Nana Mouskouri has been singing even longer -- since 1961. Her French record company recently released a box set of 34 CDs. "ATM machine" is an example of a redundant acronym -- the M already stands for machine, so this phrase means "automatic teller machine machine." Other examples: This goes for people, too. Jeb Bush's nickname derives from his initials (J.E.B., for John Ellis Bush). So "J.E.B. Bush" stands for "John Ellis Bush Bush". The Great Wall of China, as seen from the space shuttle. Contrary to popular belief, an unaided viewer cannot see it from the moon. One shuttle astronaut said, "We can see things as small as airport runways, [but] the Great Wall is almost invisible from only 180 miles up." An Apollo astronaut said no human structures were visible at a distance of a few thousand miles. And -- most tellingly -- Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei couldn't see it at all. Unusual items sold on eBay: Unsold: a 16-year-old's virginity and a half-eaten grilled-cheese sandwich. The world's population reached: According to the United Nations Population Fund, the 6 billionth baby was born at 12:02 a.m. on Oct. 12, 1999, to Fatima Nevic and her husband, Jasminko, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The forecast, according to the U.N.'s World Population Prospects database: Better get started early on that Christmas shopping. Folk remedies to prevent nightmares: Or take a small child free of sin, soak it in a bath for a couple of hours, then dry it on a goat or a sheep. The next night, sleep with the naked baby in your bed and you'll never have nightmares again. Incomprehensible math jokes: "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen," wrote Goethe. "Whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different." TYPEWRITER is typed using only the top row of keys on a standard keyboard. Unfortunate place names: Niemyje-Zabki, Poland, means "He is not cleaning his teeth." "An ugly baby is a very nasty object, and the prettiest is frightful when undressed." -- Queen Victoria The world's most difficult word to translate is ilunga, according to a 2004 survey of 1,000 linguists. The word comes from the Tshiluba language spoken in the southeastern Congo. It means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time and to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time." So it went on, 24 hours a day, for 38 years. There was no plan; the house was just continuously rebuilt. Worse, Sarah believed that vengeful spirits of gun victims were seeking her, so she slept in a different room each night, and the layout is full of secret passages and stairways and doors that lead nowhere. The result shows what $5.5 million worth of insanity looks like. Altogether there are 160 rooms, including 40 bedrooms, 47 fireplaces, 1,260 windows, 17 chimneys (with evidence of two others), two ballrooms, two basements and three working elevators. It takes 20,000 gallons to paint the place, so painting never stops. In that sense, Sarah's weird wish lives on. mu�lo�me�dic "That's all, folks!" -- Mel Blanc's epitaph Strangely, the prevention society was founded not by the black porters, but by white railway employees who were actually named George. Apparently they were either annoyed by the tradition or thought that such a society would be a good joke. People did think it was funny, or at least inoffensive. At its peak, the society had 31,000 members, including King George V of the United Kingdom, Babe Ruth (whose given name was George), and French politician Georges Clemenceau. Next time you visit the circus, if the band starts playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" -- run. The hymn is known as the "disaster march"; it's played during a life-threatening emergency to organize aid and evacuate the audience without panic. Circus bands never play it under any other circumstances. "Working with Julie Andrews is like being hit over the head with a valentine card." -- Christopher Plummer The story surrounds a golden plate that Francis Drake reportedly left as a monument when he visited Northern California in 1579. Hoping to fool one of their number, a group of local historians hammered out a fake version in 1936 and planted it near Drake's landing point. Sure enough, it made its way to the victim, historian George Bolton of Berkeley. Before they could reveal the joke, though, Bolton vouched for the plate's authenticity, engaging the University of California and paying $2,500 for it. Now that the hoax was so painfully public the conspirators had to move carefully. They tried discreetly to reveal their joke, but then to their horror Columbia University confirmed the plate as genuine. It was added to textbooks; likenesses were sold as souvenirs; copies were presented to Queen Elizabeth II herself on several occasions. Only 40 years later, after exhaustive testing at Oxford, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and MIT, was the plate confirmed as a fake, and it was several years before the whole story was pieced together. The plate is still on display at the Bancroft Library at Berkeley, an embarrassing testament to the gullibility of an excited historian. Douglas Adams' "rules that describe our reactions to technologies": Late last year, somewhere in the lonely New Mexico desert, someone began broadcasting a strange shortwave radio signal. At regular intervals, on several frequencies, Yosemite Sam says, "Varmint, I'm a-gonna blow you to smithereens!" The FCC thinks the signal is originating in the desert near Albuquerque, but no one knows who's broadcasting it, or why. Imitating the soldiers, Roman children drew their own smaller courts and added a scoring system, which has been preserved remarkably well for more than a thousand years as the game has spread to France (where it's called "Marelles"), Germany ("Templehupfen"), the Netherlands ("Hinkelbaan"), India ("Ekaria Dukaria"), and even Vietnam ("Pico") and Argentina ("Rayuela"). Today's children still draw their hopscotch courts with the word "London" at the top, without knowing that they're representing the Great North Road, a 400-mile Roman road from Glasgow to London that was frequently used by the Roman military. After years of work, some programmers unveil a new supercomputer. They say it knows everything. A skeptical man asks the computer, "Where is my father?" The computer thinks, then says, "Your father is fishing in Michigan." The man laughs. "See? I knew this was nonsense. My father has been dead for 20 years." "No," the computer says. "Your mother's husband has been dead for 20 years. Your father just landed a three-pound trout." Average travel time to work: The average U.S. commute is 24.3 minutes. The appropriate word here is "Bleeaagh." In 897, Pope Stephen VII dug up the decomposing body of his predecessor and put it on trial for violating church law. Formosus, who had been dead for nine months, was found guilty and buried again. Rome turned against Stephen, who was eventually strangled in prison. It's known as the cadaver synod or, in Latin, the "synodus horrenda." e�pal�pe�brate Contents of Stanley's Snake Oil, produced by "Rattlesnake King" Clark Stanley in 1917, as determined by the federal government: I.e., no actual snake oil. But it's pretty close to modern-day capsaicin-based liniments, so it may still have worked pretty well as intended. Make your own wanted poster at glassgiant.com. "The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films." -- Paul Newman Sound effects created by MAD cartoonist Don Martin: PITTWEEN SPLATCH THORK BLOOF THLIK GLITCH GLUTCH PITTWOON PLAF PLOOF SPLITCH THUK THAP PLOOP is the sound of a bullet ricocheting off a ceiling, through six heads, off a wall, then through six more heads. "Nothing." -- Louis XVI (Diary entry for July 14, 1789, the day of the storming of the Bastille.) Actual names of politicians in the state of Meghalaya, India: Hitler Marak told the Hindustan Times: "Maybe my parents liked the name and hence christened me Hitler. ... I am happy with my name, although I don't have any dictatorial tendencies." The food then dissolved, "the matter digested in the stomach being conducted by tubes, as in an animal by its bowels, into the anus, where there is a sphincter which permits it to be released." These inner workings were all proudly displayed, "though some ladies preferred to see them decently covered." Why make fake duck shit when the world is so well supplied with the real thing? It was part of the Enlightenment's transition from a naturalistic to a mechanical worldview. Suddenly a duck was not a God-given miracle but a machine made of meat, and complex automatons carried the promise of mechanized labor, stirring a cultural revolution. Goethe mentioned Vaucanson's automata in his diary, and Sir David Brewster called the duck "perhaps the most wonderful piece of mechanism ever made." Sadly, the whole thing was a fake: The droppings were prefabricated and hidden in a separate compartment. Back to the drawing board. Werner Heisenberg gets pulled over for speeding. The cop says, "Do you know how fast you were going?" Heisenberg says, "No, but I know where I am." "General Rules for Preserving Life and Health" in 1881: From The Household Cyclopedia of General Information. When sporgles spanned the floreate mead Dately she walked aglost the sand; -- Harriet R. White The Gettysburg Address, via the English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator: FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YAARS AGO OUR FATH3RS BROUGHT FORTH ON THIS CONTIENNT A NU NATION CONC3IEVD IN LIEBRTY AND DEDICAETD 2 DA PROPOSITION TAHT AL M3N R CR3AETD AQUAL1!11! 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OMG IT IS RATHAR FOR US 2 B HAR3 DADICAETD 2 TEH GR3AT TASK RAMANENG BFORE US�TAHT FROM THESA HONOR3D D3AD W3 TAEK INCR3AESD DEVOTION 2 TAHT CAUS3 FOR WHICH THEY GAEV TEH LAST FUL MAASUR3 OF DEVOTION�TAHT WA H3RA HIGHLY RESOLV3 TAHT TH3SE DEAD SHAL NOT HAEV DEID IN VANE�TAHT THIS NATION UNDER GOD SHAL HAEV A NU BIRTH OF FREDOM�AND TAHT GOVERNMENT OF TEH PEOPLE BY TEH PAOPL3 FOR TEH PEOPLA SHAL NOT PERISH FROM TEH AARTH!111! OMG WTF It's also available as a PowerPoint presentation. jus�su�lent Dog barks around the world: Robert Benchley wrote, "A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down." "There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -- Ambrose Bierce Proof that 2 equals 1: a = b a2 = ab a2 − b2 = ab − b2 (a − b)(a + b) = b(a − b) a + b = b b + b = b 2b = b 2 = 1 World's busiest airports: Actually, it depends on how you measure busyness. Atlanta serves the most passengers each year, but Chicago has the most arrivals and departures. Frankfurt serves the most international destinations, but Heathrow handles the most international passengers. And Memphis, home of FedEx, handles the most cargo traffic. They fight over this, but I don't see why. Who would prefer a busy airport? Your momma is so fat ... Occupations with highest median earnings: Lowest median earnings: What does this mean? Who knows? Here are some guesses, from the readers at Swanksigns: Vegetarian actors: "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals," says A. Whitney Brown. "I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants." or�gi�o�phant A python I should not advise, However, if you feel inclined Allow no music near its cage; I had an Aunt in Yucatan She died because she never knew -- Hilaire Belloc In 1957, as a joke, the BBC TV program Panorama reported a bumper harvest from the "spaghetti trees" of Ticino, Switzerland, thanks to a mild winter and the "virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil." Britons at the time knew pasta mainly as canned spaghetti with tomato sauce; hundreds of viewers called to ask for advice about growing their own trees. The BBC reportedly told them to "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." Songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel Broadcasting following the 9/11 attacks: CCB also flagged Maureen McGovern's "We May Never Love Like This Again" ... because it was featured in the movie The Towering Inferno. Its appearance matches its disposition. This drawing was made for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in 1909, but eyewitnesses have also reported a ram's head, a long neck, thin wings, short legs, thick black hair, a monkey's arms and hands, a dog's face, split hooves, a foot-long tail, and "the general appearance of a kangaroo." Laugh if you will, but don't underestimate it: To date the Devil has been shot, electrocuted, and hosed by the West Collingswood fire department, but sightings have continued through 1991, when a pizza deliveryman encountered a white horselike creature in Edison. Watch your back. "I declare this thing open, whatever it is." -- Prince Philip, opening the Vancouver City Hall John Cleese's "three laws of comedy": "I find it rather easy to portray a businessman," he once said. "Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me." On Oct. 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore, delirious and wearing clothes that were not his own. The man who found him said he was "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance." He remained incoherent and died four days later. He was only 40. An acquaintance said it was drunkenness, but he turned out to be a supporter of the temperance movement who distorted the facts. The attending physician wrote that "Edgar Allan Poe did not die under the effect of any intoxicant, nor was the smell of liquor upon his breath or person." Well, what, then? Other theories include a rare brain disease, diabetes, enzyme deficiency, syphilis, even rabies. Some people think Poe was accosted, drugged, and used as a pawn in a plot to stuff ballot boxes that day. There's no surviving death certificate, so we'll never really know. Today Poe lies in the churchyard at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, where mystery follows him even in death: Every year since 1949, the grave has been visited by a mystery man in the early hours of the poet's birthday, Jan. 19. Dressed in black and carrying a silver-tipped cane, the "Poe Taster" kneels at the grave and makes a toast with Martel cognac. He leaves behind the half-empty bottle and three red roses. Nth has no vowel. Famous atheists: "One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed in it," wrote Mark Twain. "They have also believed the world was flat." Most expensive cars, 2004: An excerpt from Fox in Socks, Prince of Denmark: ACT 4, Scene 2 FOX: Try to say this my lord Knox, prithee - KNOX: Adieu my lord, From the Dr. Seuss Parody Page.
A: An Abelian semigrape.
A: A Bananach space.
A: Zero, because all the Poles are in Eastern Europe.
A. Nothing: you can't cross a scaler with a vector.
A: Dihedral soup.
A: "Log log log log ..."
A: Zorn's lemon.
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Freud would have loved San Jose's "Winchester Mystery House," a mansion-sized emblem of its owner's mental illness. Rifle heiress Sarah L. Winchester started construction in 1884, and never stopped. A medium had told her of a family curse, and convinced her that she would die if the construction ever ceased.
adj. relating to the medical care of mules
The Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George" was a lighthearted association with a useful, if incidental, cause. Most railway porters were black, and many passengers called them all George, following the racist custom of naming slaves after their masters. (George Pullman ran the company that made the cars, so the porters were regarded as his servants.)
Drake's Plate of Brass is a museum curator's nightmare: A priceless artifact revealed as historians' in-joke gone terribly awry.
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It's ironic that hopscotch has come to be known as a little girl's game, because it couldn't have a more masculine pedigree. The first hopscotch courts were used in military training exercises in ancient Britain during the early Roman Empire. Footsoldiers wearing field packs and full body armor ran through courts 100 feet long, much as football players run through truck tires today.
adj. lacking eyebrows
Vaucanson�s Shitting Duck was one of the more unsavory products of the French Enlightenment. When it was unveiled by Jacques de Vaucanson in 1739, thousands watched the "canard dig�rateur" stretch its neck to eat grain from a hand, then swallow, digest and defecate it.
And cogwogs gleet upon the lea,
Uffia gopped to meet her love
Who smeeged upon the equat sea.
The boreal wind seet in her face;
The moggling waves yalped at her feet;
Pangwangling was her pace.
full of broth or soup
Doris|W|P|Ha-ha! And you're not joking either! I remember when I first saw a book in French on a France exchange visit as a kid and the animal noises were so different - even when pronounced. Bizarre. |W|P|...except that you can't divide both sides by (a - b) if a = b; that's division by 0, which gives an undefined result. |W|P|I agree if you plug in 2 for a and1 for b it does not come out factually. There is a way to proove this though this is not it.
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n. one who presides over orgies
It needs a doctor for its eyes,
And has the measles yearly.
To get one (to improve your mind,
And not from fashion merely),
And when it flies into a rage
Chastise it most severely.
Who bought a Python from a man
And kept it for a pet.
These simple little rules and few;--
The snake is living yet. |W|P|That's just beautiful. I love the BBC.
The Jersey Devil may be a figment, but it's an admirably hard-working one. Since 1840 the creature has been haunting the southern Pine Barrens, killing livestock, leaving strange tracks, flying, barking, attacking trolleys, eating chickens, biting dogs, and generally expressing a vituperative disapproval of Garden State settlement.
What killed Edgar Allan Poe? |W|P|this is awesome... but couldn't it be a half-full bottle? Nah didn't think so.
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[Enter FOX and KNOX]
Through three cheese trees, or not through three cheese trees,
That is the question -
whether 'tis nobler In the trees for three free fleas to fly,
Or to take a freezy breeze that blew
While these fleas flew and by blowing
Freeze these three trees. To breeze, to freeze -
No more; and by a breeze to blow
we freeze the trees and the thousand natural trees
That cheese is heir to - 'tis a cheese
Devoutly to be freezed.
To breeze, to freeze - To freeze, perchance to sneeze.
Ay, there's the rub,
For in that freeze of cheese what sneezes may come,
When fleas flew off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
This is a speech of fire that fain would blaze
But that this folly doubts it.