Since Shakespeare's birthday (April 23rd of this year, not 1564, just to forestall the tempting joke), I've been doing a reading project of covering all of Shakespeare's plays in the original spelling.
My main source text was initially this scan of the First Folio, and I sourced Edward III, Sir Thomas More (the complete play, not just Hand D), and The Two Noble Kinsmen from the original-spelling anthology The Shakespeare Apocrypha edited by C. F. Tucker Brooke, and I read Pericles in a facsimile edition of the first quarto (1609), Shakespeare's Pericles edited by Sidney Lee, both of which can also be downloaded from Internet Archive, if you're interested. However, at roughly the halfway point I was beginning to think that I wanted a facsimile edition of the First Folio of my own, so I ordered one online for only $8 less tax and shipping. The full title is Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: A Facsimile Edition of the First Folio prepared by Helge Kökeritz (Yale University Press). It's a handsome, sturdy hardcover bound in buckram, which of course made me think of Gad's Hill in 1 Henry IV.
What makes it a reading project is not only the scale, but also the fact that before each play I read the essay about it in Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber and afterward listened to the play as an audiobook in order to get a sense of what it was like in performance. The main source for the audiobooks was the Arkangel Shakespeare series, which was produced in affiliation with the Royal Shakespeare Company and thus is voiced by a cast of professional actors, including some famous names of which the most notable is Sir John Gielgud (!!!). They also have music and sound effects, so it's the next best thing to going to a live play. The only decisions I didn't really care for were the soft jazz background on The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the inexplicable decision to make the entirety of Posthumus Leonatus' dream/vision in Cymbeline sung rather than spoken. However, since they only cover 38 plays (the traditional 37 plus The Two Noble Kinsmen), I got Edward III and Sir Thomas More from LibriVox. Though these were amateur recordings, they were acceptable.
At the same time, I was reading Elizabethan Plays edited by Hazelton Spencer (which you can also read online at Internet Archive, but I bought a hardback edition), so by a complete coincidence I've read a
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Do your worst!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Bob
Just to clarify, 12345678
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
“BOOM”?!
"That's what they're fighting about."
Because his Visa didn’t work.
Because the audience only responds in a low ha
A happy Uncle.....
"Beauty, because beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder!"
I’d never seen him be 4.
Ice-olation.
She's only eleven and says she came up with that by herself. I'm so proud 😭😭😭
"No, it doesn't."
