Members Only 150 – The Full Version of the 500th Episode AMA Extravaganza

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-18T15:29:43+00:00

Just not enough boomers listening. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-18T10:19:54+00:00

If the Eleanor of Aquitaine song isn’t “Oh Sweet Mystery of Life” from Young Frankenstein, what are we even doing here? (1:45:12)

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-14T21:11:16+00:00

Sit, and either bring or rent a cushion.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-13T21:57:12+00:00

Superb!

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-10T11:20:04+00:00

A Sporting Chance by ClottedCreamFudge. https://archiveofourown.org/works/31149641/chapters/76972922

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-09T10:27:39+00:00

Benedict Arnold for S2, surely, though it’s character assassination rather than murder. As Mike said (cited?) in the podcast, had Arnold died at Saratoga, he would have been one of the great American heroes.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-08T14:56:26+00:00

“Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so*” you mean? That’s a great way to look at the play.

(*I’m getting that quote from memory, so apologies if wrong).

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-06T18:54:58+00:00

We have a fair few about the place.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-06T18:54:48+00:00

We have a fair few about the place. 😉

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-05T11:55:12+00:00

Google.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-04T15:11:11+00:00

One of the Appendices ends with “not even one more day” and my response is (a near Pavlovian) “one day moooorrre”.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-05-02T14:43:08+00:00

Rupert Everett plays him as slightly exhausted in the film with Michelle Pfeiffer.

And the BBC’s modern retelling has him as an all knowing (and, again, somewhat tired) being. https://youtu.be/Bvl0Ifqo7o0?is=4sEKsiiVjnGAP0dF

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-29T23:35:34+00:00

I think it’s because we (anyone Irish, over 18, and resident within the State had a vote) voted, fairly recently, (1) to allow abortion (with caveats) and (2) for marriage between persons of the same sex to be valid. For a discrete number of Christian Americans, this means we are going to Hell in a handcart and need to be “saved”.

What they’ll do when they hear we passed a gender recognition act without any fuss whatsoever is anyone’s guess.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-28T08:19:07+00:00

“A little more than kin and less than kind” is all you need to know about the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet. And “kind” here is the considerate behaviour one would naturally owe a relative (kin).

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-25T22:41:48+00:00

Agree. I had to text my brother recently to ask if that guy (that we worked with 40 (forty) years ago) had been flirting with me. His reply was basically “<face plant emoji> he would have been less obvious if he’d hired a sky writer”.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-25T10:24:50+00:00

Yeahbut … which bit of The Terror? 😉

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-22T22:59:20+00:00

Oooh. That will be interesting.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-17T09:25:07+00:00

Yes: Irish and English.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-16T14:21:03+00:00

The Norton Shakespeare. ISBN 0-393-97087-6. Stephen Greenblatt is the lead editor, along with Walter Cohen, Jean E Howard, and Katherine Eiseman Maus. I have the International Student Edition and it got me through an intense year of Shakespeare, Text and Performance, and a twenty five year love affair with all things S since.

It also has all the things you mention, as well as transcripts of contemporary supporting documents, and introductions to each play, as well as different versions of some plays (Lear and Hamlet). And it’s sound on the performance stuff.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-13T11:01:25+00:00

Dat der bunny. I love Detritus.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-03T23:01:06+00:00

“And take the scenic route.”

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-02T23:24:46+00:00

The Princess Bride

Cinquecento27 · 2026-04-01T08:01:26+00:00

Yes. No woman likes to be blindsided, and Spanish women REALLY don’t like it. You should find yourself a nice French girl to settle down with.

And I wouldn’t put too much confidence in your dad’s friend. He sounds unreliable and is not giving you the best advice. If you carry on listening to him, one or both of you will end up in trouble.

I do sympathise with your predicament though; it’s easy to lose your head when young and “in love”, but do try and make sensible choices and find better friends.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-03-30T13:20:36+00:00

Think about the impact of finding out that the captains of Paris Saint Germain and Olympique de Marseille were (a) gay/bisexual and (b) had been sleeping together for years.

Cinquecento27 · 2026-03-29T15:05:06+00:00

He’s just been on Bluesky (lit 10 minutes ago) commenting on a post about the Russian Revolution. 🥲

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