{"id":11139,"date":"2008-04-28T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T15:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/04\/28\/11139.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:38","slug":"oi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/04\/28\/oi\/","title":{"rendered":"Oi!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/theatre\/2008\/04\/yoof_theatre.html\">an article in the <I>Guardian<\/I><\/a> about <A href=\"http:\/\/www.baumskifilks.com\/\">Martin Baum<\/a>&#8217;s new modern-Shakespeare parody <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorsonline.co.uk\/book\/To+Be+Or+Not+To+Be+Innit\/\">To Be or Not to Be, Innit<\/a>, which looks absolutely dreadful (but then, I don&#8217;t speak chav), reminded me of <I>The Skinhead Hamlet<\/I>, so I looked it up on-line and found the full-text, as you can do, and was reminded of how brilliant it is:\n<blockquote>ACT II SCENE I\n<br>A corridor in the castle.\n<br>Enter HAMLET reading.  Enter POLONIUS.\n<br>POLONIUS:  Oi! You!\n<br>HAMLET:  Fuck off, grandad!\n<br>(Exit POLONIUS.  Enter ROSENCRANZ and GUILDENSTERN.)\n<br>ROS &amp; GUILD:  Oi! Oi!  Mucca!\n<br>HAMLET:  Fuck off, the pair of you!<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and so on.\n<p>And it occurs to me that I had no idea who wrote the thing. It was in the <I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\/index.html\">Faber<\/a> Book of Parodies<\/I>, which I had picked up at a library, when I was competing in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Humorous_Interpretation\">huminterp<\/a> in high school and looking for material, but for some reason, my coach didn&#8217;t think it was a good choice. I haven&#8217;t seen a copy of the <I>Faber Book of Parodies<\/I> for years; I looked for it recently, wondering if I would appreciate a larger percentage of the book, now that I am more widely read.\n<p>Anyway, the places I found the full text on-line didn&#8217;t have the author, but Wikipedia lets me know that it was none other than Richard Curtis, of <I>Blackadder<\/I>, <I>Vicar of Dibley<\/I> and <I>Four Weddings and a Funeral<\/I> fame. That&#8217;s the problem with the internet, you learn something new every day.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which there is something Your Humble Blogger didn&#8217;t know, the silly ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item","category-theeyater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18353,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139\/revisions\/18353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}