So literally “Bear Bear Bear”. The most bear a bear can be.
So bear. Much roar. Wow.
Also! The Arctic Circle is named for the bears, not the other way ‘round. It’s the Circle With Bears In, and the Antarctic is the Circle (and continent) Away From Bears.
I think we should all start referring to things by their proximity to bears.
“average person hath borne me on his back 3 times” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person hath borne me on his back 0 times. Alas, poor Yorick, who hath borne me on his back a thousand times, was an outlier adn should not have been counted
Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”.
There should be a blog dedicated to theatrical urban legends. Like that opening weekend of Dracula where Dracula (still hungover) vomited all over the audience during the first stage direction that everyone has a friend of a friend that worked on the show and was there.
or the one where the bridge never came out for Javert’s suicide and so he just pretended to stab himself and then lay there until the lights went out
best story i heard was when a friend of mine saw a show where juliet forgot to bring the dagger out on stage so she just ripped the squib out of her chest and blood squirted everywhere
During a passion play a friend of my brother was supposedly in, one of the roman soldiers who was supposed to stab jesus on the cross and accidentally grabbed the wrong spear- he was supposed to grab one with a fake tip, but instead he grabbed one with an actual metal tip and, well
Jesus screamed “JESUS CHRIST YOU STABBED ME”.
Since that Jesus had to be taken down due to a bad case of stab-itis, the backup Jesus came in, but he weighed significantly less than the original Jesus- which would have been fine, except that at the end the cross was supposed to ascend upwards with Jesus on it, and the weights hadn’t been adjusted.
So Jesus, instead, ROCKETED UP into heaven (or, just, above the stage).
There’s no way to talk about rabbits without mentioning the ever-popular medieval attack rabbits.
The following images all come from The Smithfield Decretals, a copy of Pope Gregory IX’s treatise on medieval canon law. This version is believed to have been created in France in the 13th century, and the illustrations added in England decades later, at a new owner’s request.
Those illustrations include the famous Rabbit War sequence
some truly incredible birds
snails doing snail things
a man fighting a butterfly
and over 600 other images including sports, monks being pranked, a surprising number of stilts and the least impressed hermit of all time. They’re all available online here at the British Library.
please don’t read plato’s apology this literally will suffice
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost
Thorin can’t find his bum with both hands and a map,
and that’s why this poem is about Aragorn.
Kimchi and Justice 