It is also the anniversary of the passing of one of the Greatest Britons that ever lived today. IMO it would be more realistic to rename the 23rd of April "William Shakespeare Day" and celebrate with lots of festivals and plays up and down the country in honour of the Bard!
I apologise if this offends anyone but I found this on Facebook this morning..... Apparently H from steps was the next to pass.....
it was a bit of a bbc and twitter cock up as i understand. Sledge died in April 2015. I think samuel l jackson posted something like Prince joining Percy Sledge and other celebs post OMG Percy Sledge has died too, terrible 2016 so far. My fav comebacks were those that tweeted -People tweeting 'Percy Sledge has died today too ' and you're thinking 'You liked him that much that you didn't notice he died in 2015' and Percy Sledge has died two years in a row. Fingers crossed that 2017 is a better year for him and Percy Sledge - dying in 2015 is unlucky but doing it again in 2016? That's just reckless! Be more careful! social media is a bizarre thing
Liam Fox was quoted as saying that Obama's views on the UK remaining within the EU were "irrelevant." If anyone's views are irrelevant it is those of Liam Fox!!
Excellent article in The Guardian yesterday arguing that the greatest piece of good fortune to befall the English was to share a mother tongue with Shakespeare. The Russians have Tolstoy, the Spanish have Cervantes, but the English really hit the jackpot with the greatest playwright, philosopher and poet of them all.
This happens far more often than people might think. If you peruse the most watched videos and most read articles section of BBC News, for example, you can sometimes find stuff from years ago which resurfaces because someone has referred to it in social media and it catches on. Tbh, I think some people do it to see how big a splash they can make, banking on the assumption that many people take almost anything as gospel, or are very gullible and don't look closely enough.
I also think Shakespeare was fortunate to have such a rich language to write in. I am willing to be corrected (because I have asked people before and no one has ever been able to tell me), but does any other language have so many words for the same thing with subtle nuances.....a gift for poets.
A cricketer talking on SS1 revealed that he had been mistaken for Raleigh Richie of GOT fame and was miked up on Soccer AM before they realised their mistake and sent him over to the correct studio
That's true, but Shakespeare probably has the most recorded neologisms (newly made-up words) of any writer in the English language. Can't recall the exact number, but it's well into the hundreds, so if anyone has enriched the English language more than the Swan of Avon, I'd like to know who they are!
Yes, I've seen a few trailers for that latest adaptation and it does look quite astounding. On another film subject, and something along the lines of a Marcus Brigstocke I've Never Seen Star Wars event, I've watched a couple of James Bond films that I'd never seen before. Bear in mind that I've never been a great fan of James Bond films, so when I say that I was quite surprised to find that On Her Majesty's Secret Service was nothing like as bad as I thought it was going to be, and George Lazenby was also nothing like as bad as he is painted. [he's not good, but he's not alone in that amongst Bond actors]. In fact, I thought OHMSS was quite amusing in places and Lazenby could do the physical stuff as well as, if not better than all the others, with the possible exception of Daniel Craig. The other Bond film I watched for the first time, which was last night incidentally, was Diamonds Are Forever, and I can safely say that I've watched only a handful of worse films in my life. Crikey, it was ****. No wonder Connery didn't want to do any more. He was terrible in it and the general acting standard was horrendous, plus the production standard was woeful. Nearly all TV productions today would be done with greater care and quality.
I just watched the latest Star Wars again and enjoyed it as much as I did the first time. I'm just a big kid at heart.
