Today’s Totally Random
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Methinks I am a prophet new-inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
John of Gaunt
King Richard the Second Act II, Scene i, Line 31
I’m going to do
something completely different today by doing something the same. We’re going
to spend a second day on yesterday’s line. Yup, you heard right.
In particular, we’ll work with the first two lines of yesterday’s speech. I feel I owe it to you after throwing so much at you yesterday.
Remember that yesterday I gave you a boatload of context, so there’s no need to repeat all that nonsense. The only thing I will repeat is that John of Gaunt is giving this speech on his deathbed. So…
Methinks I am a prophet new-inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
Methinks I am a prophet new-inspired. I love that! That is a great line that you can use to preface literally anything you want to say. Well, almost anything. Obviously, since you’re (hopefully) not going to be on your deathbed (expiring), and you’re not (at least not always) going to be passing judgement on someone, you can generally leave out the second line about expiring and fortelling of him. Just use the first line and then add whatever particular thought you were going to throw out in the first place.
Methinks I am a prophet new-inspired; why don’t we forget about trying to decide on a restaurant and just throw a few burgers on the grill.
Get the idea? It’s perfect. And it’s only seven words, six if you count the hyphened new-inspired as one.
I love it. Yeah, that’s all we’ve got for today.
Urrrgghhh! Make him stop, please make him stop.
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