- “We are all made of dream stuff.”
- “Hey look, it’s Juliet up in the balcony. Hi, Juliet!”
- “Brutus is a cool dude. All these dudes, are cool dudes.”
- “For aught that ever I could read, / The course of true love never was a walk i’ th’ park.”
- “Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. Crummy clown, bad material.”
- “Wanted: 1 horse. 10 bucks. Willing to negotiate. Call Rick ASAP.”
- “Anyone got a horse? Cause I really need one, like right now.”
- Claudius: How is’t the clouds still hang on you? Hamlet: You suck! You’re not my real dad!
- “Holy crap, it’s Yorick! Yorick died? When the frick did that happen?”
- “And you, also, are among these conspirators? Oh, Brutus. Really?”
- “My mistress’ eyes are almost like the sun. Something like? Nearly like? Partly?”
- “By the tickling of my nose, something evil this way blows.”
- “To be or not – I’m kinda leaning one way, but I’m a bit on the fence, you know?”
- “Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, / And darned if I know what to do with either one.”
- “The game’s a toe!”
- “Darn it, Goneril just said what I was gonna say.”
- “There’s something a bit off in the state of Denmark.”
Category: Humor
I Prithee LOLeth! Shakespearean Internet Initialisms (Guest Post)
Internet Initialisms—LOL for “Laughing Out Loud” or BRB for “Be Right Back,” for example—have been around for a very long time. But Shakespeare has been around even longer. Bardfilm has come up with a number of Shakespearean Internet Initialisms. Use them to raise the tone of your texts, IMs, and Twitter conversations.
Shakespearean Internet Initialisms
SWL = [O, I am] Stabb’d with laughter (cf. modern LOL).
YHPP = Your humble patience pray (cf. modern BRB).
ITGASOMO = In the gross and scope of my opinion (cf. modern IMHO).
IJTO = I jest to Oberon (cf. modern JK).
OMUTB = Once more unto the breech (cf. modern BTW).
IYTUDWNL = If you tickle us, do we not laugh? (cf. modern ROTFL)
IFINTFYOL = I find it not fit for your o’er-looking (cf. modern NSFW).
HHHH = Howl, howl, howl, howl (cf. modern DYJHIW).
IHDASTS = I have drunk and seen the spider (cf. modern BTDT).
TORNAE = These our revels now are ended (cf. modern TTYL).
TITL = This is too long (cf. modern TL/DR).
Our thanks for this guest post to kj, the author of Bardfilm. Bardfilm is a blog that comments on films, plays, and other matters related to Shakespeare.