24 Jul 14
Originally posted by Grampy Bobbystuck on decoding that cryptic key thingy. i think i might be close to solving it. only need another 3.2 trillion years.[/b][b]Sticky Thread Game
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* coquette, where art thou?
25 Jul 14
Originally posted by Great Big Stees"Screw your courage to the sticking place
I'm stuck with a Commodore 64.
Macbeth: If we should fail?
Lady Macbeth: We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail."
Will Shakespeare's Macbeth Act 1, scene 7, 59–61
"This is one time when you don't have to feel ignorant because you don't understand what Shakespeare really meant. Although he invented "sticking place," and though our usage derives directly from this scene, Shakespeare never explains what the phrase means.
Macbeth still has cold feet; he and his wife have agreed to kill King Duncan of Scotland, but he can't stop thinking of all the consequences the deed might not trammel up [see THE BE-ALL AND THE END-ALL]. Lady Macbeth, after impugning her husband's manliness, urges him, as we might say, to "screw up his courage." The OED suggests that Lady Macbeth's original words refer to the twisting of a tuning peg until it becomes set in its hole. The editor of The Riverside Shakespeare, on the other hand, suggests that a "sticking place" is "the mark to which a soldier screwed up the cord of a crossbow." Whether the metaphor is musical, martial, or otherwise, Lady Macbeth's meaning is obvious though her words are obscure: "tighten up your courage until it is fixed in the place necessary for the murder of Duncan."
Themes: murder and assassination, courage, conscience
Speakers: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth"
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/screw-your-courage-sticking-place
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18 Aug 14
Originally posted by coquetteI stuck a stamp on my letter. Hope it doesn't get stuck in the postal system. 🙁
The STG is chopped liver. The respect is gone. The sheen has worn. No more false hope of ridiculous posting counts. The STG will now wither and fade into obscurity.
Post your final farewells while you have the chance.