• Shakespeare Puzzle

    From NAND GANDHI@21:1/5 to philip barron on Fri Oct 9 01:10:13 2020
    On Friday, June 21, 1996 at 3:00:00 PM UTC+8, philip barron wrote:
    In article <4qfk24$4...@jerry.loop.net>, ste...@loop.com wrote:
    On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:56:13 -0500, phil...@istar.ca (philip barron)
    wrote:

    A theatre manager had limited space to advertise 6 upcoming Shakespeare >plays, so he designed a billboard which said:


    WET DRY

    ABORTION

    3" 6" 9"

    What were the 6 plays?

    Answer : Sunday night

    3" - Much Ado About Nothing
    6" - As You Like It
    9" - The Taming of the Shrew
    Wet - A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    Abortion - Love's Labour's Lost
    Dry - Measure for Measure???

    Steve
    Well done, Steve, except for DRY.....just keep at it!!!
    Phil

    DRY - Othello? (cuckoldry)

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  • From NAND GANDHI@21:1/5 to neil....@gmail.com on Fri Oct 9 01:04:16 2020
    On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 10:23:07 AM UTC+8, neil....@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, June 21, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, philip barron wrote:
    In article <4qfk24$4...@jerry.loop.net>, ste...@loop.com wrote:

    On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:56:13 -0500, phil...@istar.ca (philip barron) wrote:

    A theatre manager had limited space to advertise 6 upcoming Shakespeare >plays, so he designed a billboard which said:


    WET DRY

    ABORTION

    3" 6" 9"

    What were the 6 plays?

    Answer : Sunday night

    3" - Much Ado About Nothing
    6" - As You Like It
    9" - The Taming of the Shrew
    Wet - A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    Abortion - Love's Labour's Lost
    Dry - Measure for Measure???

    Steve

    Well done, Steve, except for DRY.....just keep at it!!!

    Phil

    Wouldn't The Tempest be better for wet than AMSND? Although if wet is AMSND, then dry, which is the opposite of wet, could be the opposite of AMSND: Winter's Tale.

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