On Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:21 PM, Bjorn wrote:

> Strike - thou venomed guts-griping skainsmate - "Shakespeare's Insults"
> (apart from being a great and seemingly unexploited name for a rock band
or
> a dive club - not unlike your "Satan's Kippers)) sounded too intriguing
not
> to investigate :-) Imagine my surprise when Google returned slightly over
> 1,700 hits on the subject! You will appreciate this one in particular:

> http://www.magnolia.net/~jdrake/shaken.htm

What a gem of a site!   Thou infectious unchin-snouted puttock Thou reeky
rump-fed tickle-brained measle.  Thou spongy sheep-biting barnacle.  Thou
loggerheaded guts-griping flirt-gill.  Thou roguish beetle-headed ratsbane.
Thou mangled plume-plucked nut-hook.  Thou ...   (Shakespeare was obviously
a handy bloke to drag along on a pub-crawl if you were bored and looking for
some excitement in your life!)  :-)

> Sorry for the off-topic subject. In my defense, I'd rather see a
> Shakespearean insult on this list than the ubiquitous "STFU" :-))

I agree, thou gleeking hedge-born moldwarp!  :-))

Strike