Shakespearean Scholar Gifts

'This is the last time I get a truck with a think tank.'

"I'm so nervous – my cat is here to see the play."

"There are tides in the affairs of men...when you should consider flood insurance."

"Somebody ought to tell him that 'poor'Yorick' gag wasn't even funny the first time he pulled it."

'Thy Lear jet awaits, Sire.'

"I don't mind the slings and arrows if I can keep the outrageous fortune"

Disraeli Hopes for Church Backing against Irish Disestablishment

"Then we're in agreement. There's nothing rotten in Denmark. Something is rotten everywhere else."

Some Hamlet-based puns

Sir Rupert Murgatroyd

"Friends, Romans, heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals. . ."

"All the world's a sitcom and we are but the uncredited extras."

"To be or not to be."

"Alas, poor Yorick. If only the N.H.S. had been better funded."

"If you fill us full of hot lead, do we not bleed?"

"Hubble bubble, toilet trouble."

William Shakespeare

Situation Tragedy.

'I'm reading Hamlet.'

'Next time you pick me up lose the open plan galley.'

SUSIE'S FLOWER SHOP, 'Do you have a rose by any other name?'

'Is this a child friendly spreader which I see before me?'

"AHH! There's the rub!"

Yorick when he was young and active.

Schrodinger's Black Box

Grad School Parent-Teacher Conference

Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Science of Love

If time travel was invented in 1600 in England. I'm a fan of the bard. Let's see if he wants to take a journey through time. Globe Theater. Sounds fun! Let's go to 2020. It's a nice round number. Zazzz! Poof! That's weird. How did they know he was coming? And why does he need to leave this place? Apparently you can't be here, William. The sign says "No Shakespeare in the park this summer."

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

'Hamlet'

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

'One eye of newt or two?'

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

Horti-Culture

Shakespeare was bisexual