March 15, 2006

Saying some of that there sooth.

SOOTHSAYER.
Caesar!

CAESAR.
Ha! Who calls?

CASCA.
Bid every noise be still.--Peace yet again!

CAESAR.
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry "Caesar"! Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.

SOOTHSAYER.
Beware the Ides of March.

CAESAR.
What man is that?

BRUTUS.
A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March.

CAESAR.
Set him before me; let me see his face.

CASSIUS.
Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.

CAESAR.
What say'st thou to me now? Speak once again.

SOOTHSAYER.
Beware the Ides of March.

CAESAR.
He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass.

He should've listened to the old feller, because Brutus (not the same one who kept trying to steal Olive Oyl from Popeye, by the way) and that sorry bunch he run with all had themselves a bunch of cutlery up under their skirts and were going to do some mischief on Caesar, and when they done it, Caesar was still kind and good, because right there in the midst of bleeding out, he asked Brutus if he'd had his lunch yet with the other folks.

Anyway, ever since that time up until the IRS decided to make April 15th the day you're supposed to send in your taxes, the Ides of March has been the most fear-inducing 15th day of the month among all.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at March 15, 2006 12:46 PM
Comments

Note also that someone has started this campaign for the Ides of March as well:

Eat an Animal for PETA

What a sense of humor.

Posted by: Stan at March 15, 2006 01:19 PM

I know I et two myself--some chicken for lunch, and a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit for breakfast. MMmmmmMEAT!

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at March 15, 2006 02:00 PM

Ate pig--our management decided to feed breakfast to those of us who came in early for launch support of the ST-5 mission. Breakfast was good (bacon and scrambled eggs) but the launch didn't happen. Plan is to try again next Tuesday (don't know if we'll get breakfast again). Had sausage pizza for lunch.

Most importantly, today is the day after pi day, 3-14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day
We can probably trust wikipedia not to mess this up.

Posted by: steevil (Dr Weevil's bro Steve) at March 15, 2006 03:59 PM

Mmmmm--meat AND pie! That's awfully hard to beat!

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at March 15, 2006 04:22 PM

For some reason I'm reminded of the Spike Jones classic "Palyatchee" (search for lyrics proved useless-sorry.)

From memory:

"All of a sudden - there's a bad guy in a clown suit
and then this feller
this punchy neller
begins to beller."

Posted by: skinnydan at March 15, 2006 09:00 PM

Well, him, too, although it's actually more of a direct borrowing from Andy Griffith.

AS FOR SPIKE JONES--you can find the elusive lyrics here (scroll down):

" [...] All at once there's a fat guy in a clown suit.
Ain't Haller-ween, that's for shore.
Then this here feller, this Punchy Neller,
Begins to beller -- Like we all was deef: [...]"

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at March 16, 2006 08:18 AM

Depend on Dr. Possum to have all the answers. What was the question again?

Posted by: skinnydan at March 16, 2006 09:14 AM

"What is your favorite color?"

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at March 16, 2006 09:29 AM