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Shakespeare Insult Generator Book Forms Insults Only Your Literature Teach Understands

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I’ve always been a big proponent of making insults and insinuations that are both understandable, and bizarre. You don’t want to insult someone in a normal fashion with something old and boring. At the same time, if you have to explain to the person you insulted just what your insult meant, it takes the sting out of the barb.

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A new book has turned up called the Shakespeare Insult Generator that lets you insult people using the words of Shakespearean literature. The downside to the book is that if you aren’t insulting an English Lit major, you will probably need to explain to them what the insult means.

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The book has pages that are split into three cards. Each of the sections can be mixed and matched until you form the perfect insult. The back of the cards also tell you what the words mean. You can get the book now for $12.95(USD) on ThinkGeek, you pestiferous, hollow-eyed, malignancy.

May the Force Be with Thou: Star Wars Gets Shakespeared

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If George Lucas were born in the Elizabethan era along with William Shakespeare, what would Star Wars have been like? I’d like to think the story would have the same characters and elements, although it’d clearly be written in very different prose.

Ian Doescher had similar ideas, and it was those ideas that pushed him to rewrite the script of ”A New Hope” in iambic pentameter.

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It reads like William Shakespeare’s typical work, although there’s nothing typical about this. It’s especially amusing to read R2-D2′s “beeps” and “meeps” amid all those “thous” and “arts” throughout the script.

Even the Sith Lord himself wasn’t spared, as the cover features Darth Vader decked out in Elizabethan-themed armor.

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William Shakespeare’s Star Wars is available from ThinkGeek for $14.95(USD) and in the UK from Firebox for £11.99. Check out a 16-page excerpt here (PDF).

[via Geekologie]

Julius Caesar Knife Block: Beware the Knives of March

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My friend, my friend he’s got a knife. Et tu, Brute? Et tu, ginzu? We are loving this Julius Caesar knife holder. Don’t take another step, Julius, because you’ll be stabbed in the back again. Oh the evil that men do. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: help me find where the heck I can buy this knife block that was spotted by the Atlanta Shakespeare Company.

Julius Caesar Knife Block: Beware the Knives of March

Sonic Wallets Play a Sound When Opened

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Your wallet is boring. Boring looking, boring sounding. Add some excitement to something in your pants (we’re talking about your wallet, sicko!) with Sonic Wallets. When you open up these tough Tyvek wallets, they play a sound to match the colorful all-over design. The American Flag wallet plays either “Stars and Stripes Forever” or “The Star Spangled Banner”. The Baseball wallet plays classic baseball ballpark sounds. The Buddha wallet has chants and meditative sounds. The Drum Machine wallet- you can guess what that one sounds like- here’s a sample:

There’s a Jesus one with some angels and harp sounds (apparently Jesus himself wasn’t available for recording). There’s the Moolah cow design Sonic Wallet that says “moooolah” in a few different ways. Edward Munch’s “The Scream” and the Shakespeare Insult wallet complete the collection. You can hear all the wallets and buy them here for $19.95 each.

Sonic Wallets Play a Sound When Opened

Wolfram Alpha now does literary analysis, breaks down the Bard’s work

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Wolfram Alpha now does literary analysis, breaks down the Bard's work
Literary geeks rejoice! Wolfram Alpha has given you the tools to examine the works of William Shakespeare in ways you've never cared to imagined. Ever wondered how many words are in the second act of Othello? Or what the longest word is in A Midsummer Night's Dream? The answers to such (largely unasked) queries are now mere keystrokes away, and not just for the Bard's writings, either. That's right, folks, computational analysis of the works from such luminaries as Melville, Dickens, and Twain are on tap, too. The folks at Wolfram Alpha are also looking to increase the number of supported titles, so head on down to the source link and let them know which ones you want to see.

Wolfram Alpha now does literary analysis, breaks down the Bard's work originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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