My God, it's full of THREAD BOMBS!

[Zulu Romeo]

Re: THREAD BOMBS away, my lads! Thread Bombs away!

Okay I am new here and this is my first post. What exactly is a thread bomb and what does it have to do with funny pictures?

Thread bomb - picture with humourous and / or sarcastic caption designed to show the people posting before you in the thread that you find the whole conversation has got a bit stupid.

otherwise known as any excuse to post a funny picture

Also known as a Web Macro for some reason.

They're everywhere.

 

[ITL]

Re: THREAD BOMBS away, my lads! Thread Bombs away!

It's been a while since I done a Shakespeare fail, so...

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Re: THREAD BOMBS away, my lads! Thread Bombs away!

It's been a while since I done a Shakespeare fail, so...

Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter, though.

 

[ITL]

Re: THREAD BOMBS away, my lads! Thread Bombs away!

I know, I know. I can only do tetrameter, durnit!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Re: THREAD BOMBS away, my lads! Thread Bombs away!

 

[ITL]

Re: THREAD BOMBS away, my lads! Thread Bombs away!

I think that's the first time someone's been threadbombed with a Shakespeare bomb for using the wrong meter in another Shakespeare bomb....

Poetic Pedantry FTW!

(BTW he did use tetrameter in a sonnet once, I think...but I'm probably wrong).

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Re: THREAD BOMBS away, my lads! Thread Bombs away!

I think that's the first time someone's been threadbombed with a Shakespeare bomb for using the wrong meter in another Shakespeare bomb....

Poetic Pedantry FTW!

(BTW he did use tetrameter in a sonnet once, I think...but I'm probably wrong).

He probably did, but I can't recall which one it was either.

Interestingly, in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", iambic pentameter was used for the supernaturals and upper-class Athenians, while standard non-poetic lines were generally used for the lower class characters (Bottom et al.) when speaking among each other.

Actually, come to think of it, maybe he used tetrameter for the supernaturals.... "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania" and all that... [speaks line in head] Actually, he probably didn't.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Okay, we agreed that it would be better to continue on with the old topic than start a new one (since there's no thread size limit any more), so I merged the new thread back into the old one and reopened the topic. Thanks all.

Oh, and try to avoid reposting a bunch of old pics from this topic in the future please. Let's get some new stuff in here.

 

[T'Boo]

And try making them funny! Too many are stupid! [/curmudgeon]

 

[Trippy]

Re: THREAD BOMBS away, my lads! Thread Bombs away!

I think that's the first time someone's been threadbombed with a Shakespeare bomb for using the wrong meter in another Shakespeare bomb....

Poetic Pedantry FTW!

(BTW he did use tetrameter in a sonnet once, I think...but I'm probably wrong).

He probably did, but I can't recall which one it was either.

Interestingly, in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", iambic pentameter was used for the supernaturals and upper-class Athenians, while standard non-poetic lines were generally used for the lower class characters (Bottom et al.) when speaking among each other.

Actually, come to think of it, maybe he used tetrameter for the supernaturals.... "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania" and all that... [speaks line in head] Actually, he probably didn't.

In all of his plays, the lower class or servants (the nurse in Romeo and Juliet, the servants in The Taming of the Shrew, etc.) speak in prose, while the main characters speak in iambic pentameter, with usually a rhyming couplet at the end if the character is making an important point.

Back to your regularly scheduled Shakespearean fail...

"By the pricking of my thumbs
Something stupid this way comes"

 

[1001001]

Re: THREAD BOMBS away, my lads! Thread Bombs away!

In all of his plays, the lower class or servants (the nurse in Romeo and Juliet, the servants in The Taming of the Shrew, etc.) speak in prose, while the main characters speak in iambic pentameter, with usually a rhyming couplet at the end if the character is making an important point.

I was going to say the exact same thing.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Yeah, me too. *cough*

 

[cyph]

Don't know if this has been posted yet:

and this lava lamp of a gif:

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Re: THREAD BOMBS away, my lads! Thread Bombs away!

In all of his plays, the lower class or servants (the nurse in Romeo and Juliet, the servants in The Taming of the Shrew, etc.) speak in prose, while the main characters speak in iambic pentameter, with usually a rhyming couplet at the end if the character is making an important point.

Back to your regularly scheduled Shakespearean fail...

"By the pricking of my thumbs
Something stupid this way comes"

That rhyming couplet isn't in iambic pentameter, though.

 

[John Picard]

 

[Locutus of Bored]

 

[Deckerd]

That second one is excellent.

 

[trampledamage]

Ditto

 

[Roshi]

EPIC WIN!!!

GOOFY RJ FTW!

 

[John Picard]