Friday, February 10, 2012

GRIN AND BEAR IT




Oscar Wilde called the Victorian era's adulation of the Bard of Avon "bardolatry." Susceptible Frenchmen simply pronounce the homophone, "Shakespeare, j'expire." No Freudian enigmas intended--these people are mostly Latin at heart.





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©2012 P.B. Lecron

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