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Post by Catrin on Nov 24, 2012 22:01:02 GMT 1
Brilliant idea, means I have to go and buy a Kindle now to read them all on! Not necessary. I have quite a lot of Kindle books and no Kindle. You can download a free Kindle reader to your PC.
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Post by highlanderpony2002 on Nov 24, 2012 22:18:55 GMT 1
Out, damned pony! out, I say!—One: two: out the feed shed, then, 'tis time to go.—Belly is groaning!—Go, my monster, go away, and be afraid? What need we fear but colic, when none can say how much you have stolen ?—Yet who would have thought the old pony to have had so much grub in him?
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Post by lizpurlo on Nov 25, 2012 11:13:57 GMT 1
Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the feeds and haynets you desire? I have no precious 'me time' left to spend, Naught but the rug up, turn out, muck out, you require.
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Post by rj on Nov 25, 2012 13:20:06 GMT 1
Amazing how the DG becomes more cultured when Kelly's away ;-) Well done all - I can't remember ANY of the Shakespeare I learnt half a century ago!!!
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Post by Catrin on Nov 25, 2012 15:33:20 GMT 1
Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the feeds and haynets you desire? I have no precious 'me time' left to spend, Naught but the rug up, turn out, muck out, you require. So net LVII coming up!
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Post by Catrin on Nov 25, 2012 19:38:55 GMT 1
So far 22. I've put them together with the original and its Shakespearean source. If we get three or more I'll put the whole thing up on Kindle — IHDG version on one page, the original on the next.
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Post by Catrin on Nov 25, 2012 19:56:06 GMT 1
Introduction
Whilst thinking of ideas to raise money for their 2012 charity, Shy Lowen Horse and Pony Sanctuary, the members of the Intelligent Horsemanship Discussion Group, encouraged by Garry Bosworth IHRA, attempted to emulate Shakespeare’s writing, replicating the Bard’s words on their favourite discussion topic, horses.
Shy Lowen means ‘Home of Happiness’ in Old English. Shy Lowen Horse and Pony Sanctuary is situated on reclaimed land, leased from Sefton Council, not far from the famous Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool. It aims to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home equines in need and provides a safe haven for any that are not re–homeable.
Young people, aged from 11 to 18, help in the training and rehabilitation work and the management of the sanctuary. The horses that have been rescued by the sanctuary also have a new role in equine assisted therapy for humans, teaching humans in need, how to deal with problems in their lives too.
If we continue to sell copies, we will use subsequent years’ proceeds to support the current year’s charity. We thank the reader for helping us to help horses and people in need and hope these few pages provide you with the same amount of enjoyment as the members of the IHDG had writing them.
November 2012
Copyright attribution is IH Charity, so we can use it in future years.
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Post by Catrin on Nov 26, 2012 0:22:33 GMT 1
Just got the final editing to do. I'll check and upload the 25 contributions tomorrow.
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Post by mollichop64 on Nov 26, 2012 8:15:27 GMT 1
Brilliant Catrin, am well impressed with the speed which you have put this all together
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Post by nich on Nov 26, 2012 9:22:59 GMT 1
If you spur us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not buck? If you fatten us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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Post by nich on Nov 26, 2012 9:24:28 GMT 1
A man loves the hot horse in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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Post by nich on Nov 26, 2012 9:26:49 GMT 1
you know what, there are plenty of Shakespeare quotes that stand, unedited, in our IH world:
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser
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Post by nich on Nov 26, 2012 9:27:36 GMT 1
sorry - getting carried away - this will be my last..
What a piece of work is a horse, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god
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Post by Catrin on Nov 26, 2012 10:02:20 GMT 1
No apologies nich, keep them coming. I found we already had 24 as troop had put three in one post, but there isn't a fixed number. If we try for a couple more days, perhaps then we'll actually get our fifty. The format is like this page with IH quote: I have added the "To" so that it matched the original, same with "I knew him well" well is omitted as Hamlet says, "I knew him, Horatio." Same with Ponio, … wherefore art thou … changed to whereabouts as it seemed to be asking "whereabouts are you pony?" not "for what reason are you pony?" if it did mean that (as opposed to a horse) I can change it back. next page has the original: This format then follows throughout. Do I keep the name as Garry's thread title? I noticed I had called the Word doc Shakespeare from Horseback!
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Post by grayson on Nov 26, 2012 10:12:32 GMT 1
Title, in the style of the content: Shakespeare re–Ridden!
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of livery."
"All the field's a stage, and all the men and women merely riders. They have their exits and their entrances; And one horse in his time gives many farts"
"If you lick us, do we not feed? if you groom us, do we not roll? if you over–feed us, do we not colic? and if you hit us, shall we not buck?".
"Uneasy lies the head that wears no hat".
"We have seen better bays".
"Et tu, Carrot!"
"Is this a digger which I see before me, The shovel toward my land?"
"Worms are such stuff as dreams are made on, when you keep your horse with little sheep"
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