Posted on 02/12/2021 8:31:56 AM PST by Rummyfan
I assured you that I would write this post. It's something that should be very fun for me, but I've made it obligatory. I said "It's one of my favorite stories ever." And then, fooling about in the comments:
Every task seems like more fun than the subject I regard as the ripest of the week, Andrea, Jennifer, and The 2 Williams.
What is wrong with me? I just got up to make my 5th cup of coffee!
Did William Shakespeare drink coffee? Did William Faulkner?... "He didn't have coffee, he didn't have vanilla, he didn't have cocoa. Imagine writing Hamlet without a cup of coffee. That's amazing."...
Faulkner drank, but not so much coffee.
"Jeezus Christ! Have you ever heard of anyone who drank while he worked? You’re thinking of Faulkner. He does sometimes—and I can tell right in the middle of a page when he’s had his first one"
So, yes, the "2 Williams" are Shakespeare and Faulkner. They were in the news last night because Andrea — Andrea Mitchell, the NBC News chief Washington correspondent — tweeted something so mind-bogglingly stupid — stupid, evil, and hilarious — and Jennifer — Jennifer Rubin, the WaPo columnist — lunged horribly after Andrea's tweet. These people — Mitchell and Rubin — are supposed to be the elite, but they are not even elite enough to keep from stumbling over a high-school level literary reference or even to think of making sure — with the quickest Google — they're not making a gaffe.
Andrea saw what looked like it might be an opportunity to mock Ted Cruz.
(Excerpt) Read more at althouse.blogspot.com ...
Love it!
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE THE SMARTEST PEOPLE IN THE ROOM......
And they are if its empty.....................
There is a British comedy called “Upstart Crow” which features William Shakespeare in a comedic situation comedy. I find it quite hilarious. In it he occasionally tells others that one day his words will become part of memorable everyday jargon.
One of my Irish-born nuns had our 7th grade class memorize, “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” as well as many other things from the classics. Thank you, Sister Margaret!
*: once our Geman language teacher was ranting about us not being able to remember German verb usage, but we would remember how to take off our date's prom dress if he told us that. Damn right we would!
Oh how I bemoan the loss of the hierarchy that used to govern our media outlets/toilets. Once there was that senior and CRUSTY EDITOR, who had no J-School but came up from being a beat reporter. There was permanent ink on his fingers from the old newsprint and a permanent hoarse voice from shouting over the thundering presses!
Having caught Andrea’s egregious error, she would have been called into his ever-cluttered office and no chair save his. Grumpily muttering into his 4th cup of NAVY-strength coffee, he would have assigned her to copyeditor duties for the next month AND assigned her to read both Hamlet and the Scottish Play by next week. A nice column on Cole Porter’s “Brush up on your Shakespeare” might help!
A nice dream but not for our current opinion leaders, more is the loss!
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