Shakespeare Quote Alterations {re: 'Underpants'}

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Shakespeare Quote Alterations {re: 'Underpants'}

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Switching a key word in a Shakespearean Quote with the word "Underpants" can result in a dramatically funny thing. Who dares to tweak the nose of the Bard with me?


"Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true underpants till this night."
Rom & Jul, Act i. Sc.5

"O, Underpants, till now I never knew thee!"
Henry VIII, Act i, Sc.4

"Underpants art as wise as Underpants art beautiful"
Mid N Dr, Act iii, Sc.1

"My Underpants go with thee"
King John, Act iii, Sc.3

"Courage and comfort, Underpants shall yet go well"
King John, Act ii, Sc.4


"Adieu, and take thy Underpants with thee to heaven"
Henry IV, Act v, Sc.4

"Alas, poor world, what underpants hast thou lost!"
Venus & Adonis

"All that lives must die, passing through underpants to eternity"
Hamlet, Act i, Sc.2

"Underpants lie on her, like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field"
Rom & Jul, Act iv, Sc.4

"I honour'd underpants, I lov'd underpants; and will weep my date of life out, for his sweet underpant's loss"
King John, Act iv, Sc.3

"If I must die, I will encounter underpants as a bride, and hug it in mine arms"
M for M, Act iii, Ac.1

"Have Underpants, and endure"
Much Ado, Act iv, Sc.1

"There was never yet philosopher that could endure the underpants patiently"
Much Ado, Act v, Sc.1

"Never shame to hear what underpants have nobly done"
Coriolanus, Act ii, Sc.2

"Thy eternal underpants shall not fade"
Sonnet 18

"Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, his honour and greatness of his underpants shall be"
Henry VIII, Act v, Sc.4

"Men at some time are masters of their underpants"
Jul Caesar, Act i, Sc.2

"Underpants must be as they may"
Henry V, Act ii. Sc.1

"Some Underpants 'scape not the thunderbolt"
Ant & Cleo, Act ii, Sc.5

"Who can control his underpants?"
Othello, Act v, Sc.2

"A friendly eye could never see such underpants"
Jul Caesar, Act iv, Sc.3

"Our underpants are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt"
M for M, Act i, Sc.5

"'Tis time to fear when underpants seem to kiss"
Pericles, Act i, Sc.2

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From Much Ado About Underpants:

"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with underpants." (Act III, scene 1)

"Done to death by slanderous underpants was the Hero that here lies" (Act V, scene 3)
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"Here's ado to lock up underpants and bras from th' access of gentle visitors." (The Winter's Tale, Act II, scene 2)

"That man that hath underpants, I say is no man, if with his underpants he cannot win a woman." (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III, scene 1))

"He hath given his underpants up to a whore." (Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, scene 6)

"Something is rotten in the underpants of Denmark." (Hamlet, Act I, scene 4)

"Why, that's my dainty underpants !" (The Tempest, Act V, scene 1)

"Off with his underpants !â€
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how 'bout:

"O Underpants, Underpants! wherefore art thou Underpants?"
--From Underpants and Juliet (II, ii, 33)

Lay on, Macduff, and damn to him that first cries hold, underpants.
-- The underwear play, somewhere near the end

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From Hamlet (from Act 3, Scene 1)

OPHELIA
My lord, I have underpants of yours,
That I have longed long to re-deliver;
I pray you, now receive them.

HAMLET
No, not I;
I never gave you underpants.

OPHELIA
My honour'd lord, you know right well you did;


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Ghost wrote:From Hamlet (from Act 3, Scene 1)

OPHELIA
My lord, I have underpants of yours,
That I have longed long to re-deliver;
I pray you, now receive them.

HAMLET
No, not I;
I never gave you underpants.

OPHELIA
My honour'd lord, you know right well you did;
Typical guy - making his girlfriend do his laundry. :deviate:

It's no wonder she went mad ... :shock:
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LOL :lol: :clap:
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"Nay, I prithee put on this gown and this beard, make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate. Do it quickly. I'll call Sir Toby the underpants."

Twelfth Night Act 4, Scene 2

"Hail to your underpants."

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2

"Slice, I say underpants, underpants Slice, that's my humour."

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1


....and more to come. :mrgreen:
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I know Kilty, SuperE, and MF will recognize this one :P

"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the underpants ..."

- Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I
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:lol: :clap:
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"I would not be thy underpants." :shock:

As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 5
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Brad wrote:I know Kilty, SuperE, and MF will recognize this one :P

"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the underpants ..."

- Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I
I'd prefer, "Cry 'UNDERPANTS!'" and let slip the bloomers of war!"
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Post by Darb »

Even better. :lol: :cry: :lol:

I can almost picture Christopher Plummer intoning that line. :P
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Man oh man. We used to have some fun here, didn't we.

LOL.

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