For
this description of thine honesty? A pox upon him for me, he’s more and more a
cat.
-Bertram
All’s Well That Ends Well Act IV, scene iii, line 263
This is a pretty obscure bit of a line. I guess we don’t
really need to know what the description of thine honesty was. Suffice it to
say that the description was not flattering. Today’s Totally Random line is
Betram’s comment about Parolles, the fellow who gave this unflattering description.
A
pox upon him, whilst a bit of an antiquated expression is pretty easy to understand.
But now wait a tic, let’s think about this for a minute. It's an old saying, A pox upon him, and yet how topical! We are
in the middle of a pandemic. Not that I would ever use
this line, but it would certainly be topical. A pox indeed!
Now consider how bad it would be to
say to someone, I hope you catch Corona Virus! They'd probably arrest you just for saying it. So
this old a pox upon you line is maybe worse than we had ever realized.
Good ol' relevant Will.
Well, believe it or not, these are the instructions for a board game called Pandemic. It's true: we have a game called Pandemic. The object of the game is to work together to stop a Pandemic. We're going to be playing this in the next day or so. I'll let you know how we make out.
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