Talk:Shuffle loose the mortal coil

Not sure...
...why I wrote this. I just like the phrase for some reason. --Edge  runner  76 10:24, 18 January 2008 (EST)

Just bein' picky
It's a misquote: What dreames may come, When we haue shufflel'd off this mortall coile, Must giue vs pawse. (From Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1603.) Susan  Purrrrrrr  11:33, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * Yeah, but I went with this because it's what it has since morphed into. --Edge   runner  76 11:46, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * Never heard it your way, honest! Susan  Purrrrrrr  11:51, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * & it googles 82 whereas off this googles 20,000, by kenservative logic I'm right! :-) Susan  Purrrrrrr  11:56, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * Wow! Must be me then (that's the way I've always heard it). :)  --Edge   runner  76 11:58, 18 January 2008 (EST)


 * Language morphs- there's no right or wrong. Susan  Purrrrrrr  12:06, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * Weeps openly. [[Image:jollyfish.gif|25px]]Genghis  Whatever happened to pedantry? 12:12, 18 January 2008 (EST)

ped·ant (pdnt) n.

1. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.

2. One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously.

3. Obsolete A schoolmaster. Susan Purrrrrrr  12:24, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * Must admit that I've always known it as "off". Perhaps we should add debunking erroneous Shakespearian quotes to the mission?  :-)  --Bobbing up 12:33, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * Good idea. Let's do "poor Yorick" next. -- AKjeldsen Godspeed! 12:39, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * Heh! Susan  Purrrrrrr  12:41, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * Alas, I knew him. :-) --Bobbing up 12:55, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * - but not "'well"' - Susan  Purrrrrrr  12:58, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * Definitely not.--Bobbing up 13:04, 18 January 2008 (EST)

Anybody want to debunk "Casablanca" quotes?--Bobbing up 13:11, 18 January 2008 (EST)
 * Or Star Trek ? [[Image:jollyfish.gif|25px]]Genghis  Marauding 04:09, 21 January 2008 (EST)
 * Ah yes. Scotty and beaming.--Bobbing up 05:09, 21 January 2008 (EST)

Amazed
... and no one pointed out it's a quote from Dogma, 1999 Kevin Smith comedy?! I'm amazed. "Now, if I remember the protocol correctly the powers will attempt to contact the last scion. I need you three to shuffle her loose the mortal coil." It's a deliberate misquotation. Incidentally, it comes from a former muse now a demon which probably means Smith is insinuating, for comical effect, that Shakespeare wrote down Hamlet's soliloquy, one of the best recognizable passages in modern English, at the inspiration of a fallen muse.

Category proposal
seems apt for this page. Words are fun to arrange and play with, but do we need a main space page for trinkets and giblets such as this? Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 16:28, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking that if it qualifies for Cruft, maybe it's just better deleted? I didn't realize this was both lonely AND a dead end.  Delete? Researcher (talk) 16:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Not sure which is the gentler way to send something into that good night, a cruft cat or a delete tag. Not really my call, but if somebody else doesn't offer a kind word, the article gets vaporised. No bunnies will be harmed. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 16:44, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Surely the "cruft" tag is taken care of by the "fun" namespace? (personally I like this talk page) 16:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Fun is fun, and cruft is, well, leftovers cluttering up the place. Talk pages stick around after the article gets deleted, don't they? Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 16:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm good with vaporizing. Researcher (talk) 07:30, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes you are. Disappear This down the rabbit hole, sez I, but only if you feel like it. And Keep th talk page here for our enjoyment, will you? Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 14:49, 23 December 2009 (UTC)