Romeo and Juliet hilarity
Posted in Theatre, Web on 03/15/2007 07:59 am by KatieROMEO:
News from Verona! How now, Balthasar?
Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?
How doth my lady? Is my father well?
How fares my Juliet? That I ask again,
For nothing can be ill if she be well.
BALTHASAR:
Then she is well, and nothing can be ill.
Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument,
And her immortal part with angels lives.
I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault
And presently took post to tell it you.
O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
Since you did leave it for my office, sir.
ROMEO:
Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars!
But soft! What SMS through yonder RAZR breaks?
SMS ON ROMEO’S PHONE:
i’m ok — poison fake
rofl
cul8r
:-*
[ taken from McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Stories That Would Have Turned Out Differently If The Protagonists Had Had Cell Phones ]
March 17th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Huh, I wonder how other literary works would have panned out if they took place today. Just imagine the Scarlet Letter.
“Holy crap, that lady is pregnant and unwed!”
“Meh.”
“And the father is a priest!”
“Meh, what else is new?”