It's getting on for Burn's Night season here in the far north. Through a haze of haggis and whisky, questions drift by.
Could Burns take out the Bard in a pub car park fight?
Why don't the Sons and Daughters of Albion have a Shakespeare Night?
What would a Burns/Shakespeare cross over be like?
Was Bill a luvvie or a geezer? Burn's geezer-dom is well documented.
So many questions my dears, so few answers.
I've been asked before why we don't have something like the Americans July 4th, an out and out joyous celebration of our country and all that is good about it. As far as I can determine its because we've got a fucking Queen instead. Grumble.
"Could Burns take out the Bard in a pub car park fight?"
Duh. Obviously Burns would win. The Bard wouldn't know what a pub was.
RL
Are you seriously suggesting that, as the greatest writer in the English language, Shakespeare didn't know how to drink?
Well there is St George's Day celebrated by right wing nutters everywhere. And 'erased from history' koff koff Empire Day koff
Well Marlow was a hard-drinking nutcase so I reckon Will was the same... it's a certain comic writer that's wimped him up...
its well cool !
burns was a hard man, even though he wrote poetry and collected english taxes.....
will was a softy southerner so no competition me thinks..
burns night is celebrated by scots here in souf england, an excuse for scots to go down the pub,,,,, like they need one...
I'm sure Burns could take that 'puir wee sleekit cow'rin timrous beastie' Shakespeare.
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Aye he could bash him ower the heid wi a big neep..however what if wiley Will used his napper & distracted oor Rabbie wi' a bonnie lassie ? & used the opportunity to poke Rab wi his poncy wee quill ?
Oh yeah, why is Burns holding a flower in his sculpture then? The big jessy.
Arthur - we had the Jubilee celebrations... why party every year when you can party every 25 years.
Damn.
"hurrah, we're all slaves of the hideous old millionare lizard people"
Screw that...
Would you rather they were fish people?
HAIL THE TROUT!
"HAIL THE TROUT!"
Indeed, but hail Rabbie Burns as well.
He would've beaten the living shite out of Shakespeare, then gone home and shagged three women, pished out of his brains, then wrote a far better poem than Bill ever could.
Burns had sixteen - count em - SIXTEEN bairns, nine by Jean Armour, who then took in a whole load of his illegitimate kids as well.
And he was only 37 when he died. Live fast, die young.
What a man.
(And Burns suppers are massive fun. I'm still hungover from one on Saturday night!)
CELEBRATE SCOTLAND AND HAIL THE TROUT!
Bah, we should have beheaded all his ancestors in the 1800s and declared a republic.
This is all begining to sounding a bit like a big boy's pishing up the wall contest.
I would suggest that the pair o' them would have had the brains no tae fight, but would have had a bit verbal, then got all the sucker audience to by them beer all night, I've seen it done by lesser mortals. Anyway who said that Chopper could write apart from his name and that big smiley face on the statue of Justice?
Death to the Lizards! Sheridan for Scots Prez!
Well as the Pub Landlord sez we can celebrate a thousand years of not losing a war. "That war against the French we were enjoying it so much we dragged it out for a hundred years!"
aye and we've goan hun'eds of years being dominated by the lizards to celebrate...Booo
hurrah Mr sheridan ! hurrah mr Burns !
SO its safe to say that Shakespeare would win the fight if they were both 40?
shakespeare in his own time was not a luvvie.
a popular icon. a latter day rock star in many way. his plays where full of questionable moral characters. his target audience more the man in the mass entertainment then the elite few it later became.
he was more showman then a luvvie.
lets say burns was the rolling stones and shakespeare more the beatles. both damn good, just differnt markets to reach.
i would think burns could take him though. given his less then queensury rules of dueling he was likely to employ.