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Re: Insults from the Bard

Posted by Chester on November 16, 1999

In Reply to: Insults from the Bard posted by Bruce Kahl on November 16, 1999

Thanks for the recommendations. I hope you realize I'm looking for something reasonably witty, possibly wry or dry humor. Less the verbal blow torch than the well-considered judgement.

Who can knock Shakespeare? But the language is Elizabethan, not modern colloquial.