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[tiger fancini]

I was Sir Andrew Aguecheek in my schools production of Twelth Night, but I'd rather be his sidekick Toby Belch. He was definitely a hard drinking, womanising smart guy!

[schwa]

Prospero. Cant claim, but aspire.

[Sophocles]

I'd likely be Ophelia - easily sent over the edge and always falling for the wrong guy (until now, I guess).

[Maserial]

I'd probably get stuck with being Ariel from the Tempest, and I can live with that.

[Sine qua non]

For myself I'd choose Yorrick, the court jester during Hamlet's childhood.



Yorrick had a fun time while he was alive; and fortunately current life problems are not any bother to him.

Like Robert Johnson sang: "You may bury my body down by the highwayside. Baby, I don't care where you bury my
body when I'm dead and gone."

[The Bobster]

Falstaff, absolutely. Always been my goal. I don't get out much lately, though, something I have to work on ...

[Julius]

King Hal.

When I depart this board for my life of luxury, bobster,


I know you not, old man. Fall to your prayers.
How ill white hairs become a fool and a jester!
I have long dreamed of such a kind of man as you,
So gluttonous, so old and so profane,
But, being awakened, I do despise my dream.
Take your body hence, and earn thereby grace.
Leave gormandizing. Know that the grave gapes
For you three times wider than for other men.
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.

[crusher_of_heads]

Benedick-Much Ado About Nothing.

2nd choice would be Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice-if it were not for his anti-semitism

[The Bobster]

[Octavius Hite]

I'll give you all one guess who mine would be, he's my namesake in fact.

[Rteacher]

Petruchio from Taming of the Shrew ...

[crusher_of_heads]

[Xerxes]

I've always liked Prince Hal from the Richard II, 1-2 Henry IV, Henry V series (tetrology).

A dude who rolls with the punches, plays with the roughs, but is still noble at heart (although he uses and betrays his friends for his Kingly station in life that he later assumes, but hey, who's being picky?)

I think all kingly men and men in general should have a 5 to 10 year hiatus from their profession and adult duties just to act like a real tit for a while.

Interviews at companies should require something like that in a dude's resume, dudettes too, for that matter.

Look at the modern day Harry. He should be allowed to booze around, flander hard, party harder, and say really bone-headed sheeit to the press, and moon the paparazzi. Once he's had it out of his system, he can be a right noble King who we would never think the less for the lapse in his youth. We might even consider him the cooler for it.

[Zoobot]

Agreed!

"I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are: They'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt have me whipped for lying, and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any kind 'o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be thee, nuncle; thou has pared thy wit o' both sides and left nothing i' the middle. Here comes one o' the parings."

Yep, that's me. I get whipped no matter what I say or what I don't. WHIPPED. And being a king is for the vapid and vacant.

[swetepete]

Prince Hal is Henry V at his purest and most uncorrupted. He hasn't sold anybody out, yet; in his whoring and thieving, he's a disappointment to his family, so far, but confident that he has within himself the ability--and, indeed, the inevitability--of becoming what he was always told he should be.

I think for myself this is absolutely true, and I see it in a lot of my colleagues here as well. We know we can just piss about til our rich folks die, and go home and get fat on their various investments. But we also want to please them.

I hope we can make mum and dad happy, someday, without abandoning our gutter-buddy Falstaffs and Pistols, and without invading France. And hopefully, we all can do that before our parent's deathbeds.
Unlike Hal.