Talk:Shuffle loose the mortal coil

Not sure...

...why I wrote this. I just like the phrase for some reason. --Edgerunner⁷⁶ 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. --Edgerunner⁷⁶ 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). :) --Edgerunner⁷⁶ 11:58, 18 January 2008 (EST)

Language morphs- there's no right or wrong. Susan^Purrrrrrr 12:06, 18 January 2008 (EST)

Weeps openly. 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? :-) --Bob^{bing 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. :-) --Bob^{bing up} 12:55, 18 January 2008 (EST)

- but not "'well"' - Susan^Purrrrrrr 12:58, 18 January 2008 (EST)

Definitely not.--Bob^{bing up} 13:04, 18 January 2008 (EST)

Anybody want to debunk "Casablanca" quotes?--Bob^{bing up} 13:11, 18 January 2008 (EST)

Or Star Trek ? Genghis ^Marauding 04:09, 21 January 2008 (EST)

Ah yes. Scotty and beaming.--Bob^{bing 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. ^{— Unsigned, by: 94.126.17.227 / talk / contribs (signed by bot)} 14:15, 04 October 2010 (UTC)

Category proposal

[[Category:Cruft]] [[Category:Talk pages for deleted articles]] 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) ^{I am eating} _& honey^chat 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)