[thenightwriterblog] The Night Writer: Eye-opener

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Eye-opener
http://thenightwriterblog.powerblogs.com/posts/1178476026.shtml


   For my wife's last birthday someone gave her a large coffee-mug
   printed with a collection of insults from Shakespeare -- barbs from
   the bard, if you will. These colorful jibes are epically epithetical.
   Some examples:
     * beetle-headed, flap-ear'd knave
     * quintessence of dust
     * canker-blossom
     * poisonous bunch-back'd toad
     * a [1]fusty nut with no kernel
     * clod of wayward marl
     * roast-meat for worms
     * infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker
     * anointed sovereign of sighs and groans
     * foot-licker
     * lump of foul deformity
     * highly fed and lowly taught
     * all eyes and no sight
     * all the infections the sun sucks up
     * elvish-mark'd abortive, rooting hog
     * veriest varlet that ever chewed with a tooth
     * mountain of mad flesh
     * light of brain
     * bolting-hutch of beastliness
     * not so much brain as ear-wax
     * long-tongu'd babbling gossip
     * thou are a boil, a plague sore
     * I do desire that we may be better strangers

   As I said, the mug was given to her. Yet she serves me my coffee in
   it. Methinks she's trying to tell me something.

References

   1. http://thenightwriterblog.powerblogs.com/posts/1137376294.shtml