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Bro, This Is Not The 'Beowulf' You Think You Know
NPR ^ | August 27, 2020 | Jason Sheehan

Posted on 08/30/2020 9:46:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Salamander

Bishop Bullwinkle Hell To Da Naw,Naw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QxIIz1yEsA


21 posted on 08/30/2020 10:15:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Salamander

LOL! And a crunked-up mead mug!


22 posted on 08/30/2020 10:16:13 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Ha!
That was great!

[and he has a lot of dogs, too]


23 posted on 08/30/2020 10:18:02 PM PDT by Salamander (When Hillbillies Die In Battle, They Go To Y'allhalla)
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To: BradyLS

Purple mead?


24 posted on 08/30/2020 10:18:31 PM PDT by Salamander (When Hillbillies Die In Battle, They Go To Y'allhalla)
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To: a fool in paradise

This doesn’t sound that good. However, a classic guy named Rousse redid the Iliad and the Odyssey several years ago in Novel format. He dropped most the rhyme that is forced in English and just told the tale as an adventure novel.

It was actually quite good.


25 posted on 08/30/2020 10:20:30 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: nopardons

I did not watch that.

Not a diCaprio fan.

Loved Gangs Of New York but every time that little beady-eyed pipsqueak came into the scene, I kept hoping Bill would fling a cleaver in him.


26 posted on 08/30/2020 10:20:58 PM PDT by Salamander (When Hillbillies Die In Battle, They Go To Y'allhalla)
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To: Salamander

(language alert)

I imagine it’d sound something like Iceberg Slim
The Fall (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfmt34p03m8
The Fall (part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLwYnSJ2wo

Or maybe Rudy Ray Moore
The Signifying Monkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co42in3vWIY


27 posted on 08/30/2020 10:23:06 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: nopardons

Everyone who has NOT seen Nicol Williamson’s “Hamlet” is missing out on life.

It was filmed during the cast’s off-time while on Broadway and it is stark, gritty, austere black and white with Nicol chewing the scenery as only he could do.

Best. Hamlet. Ever.


28 posted on 08/30/2020 10:23:42 PM PDT by Salamander (When Hillbillies Die In Battle, They Go To Y'allhalla)
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To: All

The Beowulf I know best is of .50 Caliber.

(And the Grendel I know best is 6.5mm).

;-)


29 posted on 08/30/2020 10:24:16 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: a fool in paradise
Weapon of choice
30 posted on 08/30/2020 10:26:10 PM PDT by Salamander (When Hillbillies Die In Battle, They Go To Y'allhalla)
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To: a fool in paradise

“ninja sound like vincent price on courvoisier and newport 100s”

Epic comment.


31 posted on 08/30/2020 10:27:11 PM PDT by Salamander (When Hillbillies Die In Battle, They Go To Y'allhalla)
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To: a fool in paradise

Just say NO BRO!


32 posted on 08/30/2020 10:28:15 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: nopardons

Bonnie and Clyde versus Romeo and Juliet [LANGUAGE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV7xJ73_eeM


33 posted on 08/30/2020 10:29:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

Best modern “Beowulf”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpn1QtMoL7E


34 posted on 08/30/2020 10:37:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

Never going to click on that!
I’m sure it rates right up there with that old black-sploitation movie “Blackula” as a work of literary art.
Cannot unsee such trash so better to never look.


35 posted on 08/30/2020 10:45:14 PM PDT by Ex gun maker.
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nickcarraway Bastardized mockery given the status of high art.

Ooooh... I like that!

36 posted on 08/30/2020 10:46:43 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (“Feels Up and Heels Up 2020”)
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To: Salamander
I can't stand that no talent Di Caprio, but LOVE Shakespeare, so I forced myself to watch it. It stunk on ice and worse!

The Gangs of New York was a terrible movie, if one has read the book first, which I had. Herbert Asbury actually wrote a series of books about gangs/criminals, which I own and read long ago. They are fascinating books! New York was later book, first he had written about Chicago and San Fransisco gangs/criminals.

Di Caprio has never been able to act his way out of a wet paper bag and ruins every movie he's ever been in; not to mention the fact that he's creepy looking.

37 posted on 08/30/2020 10:48:48 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: a fool in paradise

Fly Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S6vk9K2Cwo

Dolomite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voxp3ckwJZ0


38 posted on 08/30/2020 10:51:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Salamander

True...Olivier’s Hamlet was a bit light in the loafers, and I couldn’t shake the fact that David Tennant had been DOCTOR WHO, when I saw him do it.


39 posted on 08/30/2020 10:52:08 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nickcarraway

“fighting each other in the margins, crossing out each other’s words and replacing them.


Not to be confused with Wikipedia


40 posted on 08/30/2020 10:55:13 PM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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