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Interesting how some of LC's work is now so much part of public use that it is used as a pun in an article having nothing to do with him:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... 885613.ece

hehe, when she went out in the final my boyfriend turned to me and said 'well I guess it's so long, Marianne'. He then said he'd been waiting all week to say that. Oh dear.

Same thing here... note the photo caption from this recent New York Times article. No mention of LC in the article, though.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/mo ... tel&st=cse

It's the ultimate accolade, when one's words enter the vernacular without even needing an attribution.

It reminds me of all those clichés peppered throughout Shakespeare ... until you remember that he was the first to write them, and it is we who have made them clichés!

It reminds me of all those clichés peppered throughout Shakespeare ... until you remember that he was the first to write them, and it is we who have made them clichés!

Examples:

All the world is a stage and all the people are merely actors.

I want my "pound of flesh". (Merchant of Venace).

Actually Shakespeare may not be liked by Lennie, being that he was opne of the first publically acclaimed anti semite, when he published the Merchant of Venace with his Shylock innuendo.

seahawk

if you are going to quote Shakespeare then for god's sake quote him correctly...btw what's brought this latest round of name calling about....have you run out of forum members to accuse of anti semitism... poor old Will Shakespeare the 'first aclaimed anti semite' indeed...is there no end to your paranoia....I couldn't help but reply to to your foolishness because as the world's first aclaimed anti semite once wrote...

the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

........from As You Like It in case you want to misquote it sometime

ta ken