Monday, February 20, 2012

Sheeply Shakespeare



Sheep #1: It's time.

Writer: No.

Sheep #2: It's really time.

Writer: Go away.

Sheep #3: Actually it's way past time.

Writer: Go far far away.

Sheep #1: (blares trumpet) Time to get to work! Time to press that nose to the grindstone! 

Writer: That would leave a mark.

Sheep #2: We're not being literal.

Writer: Oh.

Sheep #2: Remember "Time and the hour run through the roughest day".

Writer: Now you're quoting Shakespeare?

Sheep #1: Why not? We're learned.

Sheep #2: Don't judge us harshly just because we're sheep.

Sheep #3: We bite.

Writer: I thought you were meek.

Sheep #3: (snorts) Seriously?

Sheep #1: Remember "I wasted time and now doth time waste me".

Sheep #2: Richard II.

Sheep #3: Act 5, scene 5.

Writer: (quietly) Wow.

Sheep #1: Just get to work.

Sheep #2: We'll keep quoting all day if you don't.

Writer: Fine. "Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well."

Sheep #1: Hey.

Writer: You're not the only ones who went to school. 

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8 comments:

  1. Too cool. Billy the Bard would be proud :)

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    1. Thesesheep certainly can be. Sigh. But I love them.

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    1. Yes. Yes they do. Never anger a sheep. You've been warned.

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  4. Elspeth - Oh, what a treat!! Those wonderful sheep! Thank you for sharing their latest wisdom actually. I needed to hear it. Besides, they bite if they are not heeded. Oh, sheep, I bow to thy wisdom :-).

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  5. Ah ha ha! This was fantastic! Thanks for the giggle. :)

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  6. All the sheep I know are busy lambing at the moment and don't have time for quoting dead playwrights!

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