Credit to Stan Dubinsky for bringing this item in The Boston Globe to our attention:
(A street in Cambridgeham. Most Exalted University Professor HENRY LOUIS GATES, freshly returned from the Land of the Asian Khan, is rattling the door of his keep. Enter a WENCH.)
WENCH: Alarum! Alarum! A thief is about!
GATES: Peace, ye fat guts!
(Enter SHERIFF CROWLEY)
CROWLEY: Stay, now! Who disturbs our peaceful shire?
GATES: I disturb no man. My key unlocketh not.
CROWLEY: Forsooth, thou breakest and enterest.
GATES (entering his castle): I break not for witless constables. Begone!
CROWLEY: Back speaks no man to the Sheriff; I arrest thee!
GATES: Knowest thou whom I am? That I am coy with the Daily Beastmistress, Milady Tina? That I am most down with Lady Oprah, the Queen of afternoon tele-dalliances? That I am sworn liege to Dr. Faust, of whom Marlowe wrote? That I unravelest literary mysteries at the Greatest University Known to Man?
CROWLEY: Of Tufts you speak? Even so, thou art under arrest.
GATES: Thou detaineth me because I am a Moor!
CROWLEY: Some of my best friends are Moors. Your pleas availeth not.
GATES: You shall rue the day you crost my threshold….
… and so forth. ‘Tis a silly tale, but enjoyable withal.
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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
Why did you post a photo of Lee’s car?
I was just looking for some new decor, and ran across that. I shot that picture behind the Lizard’s Thicket on Sunset Blvd. in West Columbia back in 2006. Note the details, particularly the column of snuff cans stacked up on the radio antenna…
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
Thanks for sharing, Brad… this was bipartisanly funny!
RE: the car… what’s that written on the back of the trunk? (I … ???)
That should be “I ‘heart’ ???”. WordPress didn’t like the greater/less-than signs. Thinks they’re html, I guess…
“Some of my best friends are Moors.”
Doesn’t the anecdotal nature of the statement invalidate it?