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Arcadia Consulting Detective

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That's the plan, yeh. ;)

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Out of fairness towards the vast majority of not-German speaking forum members, I have tried to translate the Wise Guys' Hamlet rap I linked to. I have never done this sort of thing before, especially

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I'm getting this mental image of Cumberbatch-as-Hamlet traveling around the world, hour by hour and time zone by time zone -- sort of like Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.... 

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I believe this BBC trailer (from Sherlockology) bodes well for Cumberbatch's performance at Hamlet:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WtEUySDDg-I   He's quoting Shakesp

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Inge l-w Consulting Detective

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Oh, I thought you would be taking advantage of your spaceship, phaser on stun setting and possibly Sherlock's or Irene's riding crop, but old-fashioned axe-fights are right up my street! Don't forget I hunt, have a licence, a St. Etienne repeater shotgun and started practicing at the age of six, won my first air gun competition at eight. In fact, I often phantasise about giving Colonel Moran a run for his money in sharpshooting. Needless to say, Mary's approach is not on, as it is completely unsporting!

If you come at me with that axe, it will be a repeat of Dr Indiana Jones and the Lost Arc, with you being in the position of the gicantic assailant wielding a mighty sword! :D

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Maybe we need an old fashioned fencing duel as Hamlet and Laertes do in Benedict's Hamlet.

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Inge l-w Consulting Detective

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Nope! The only sword in the family is my great-grandfather's Uhlan sabre, doesn't seem to go blunt with age, but epee and fancy footwork not really my thing! Besides, dear Arcadia has a spaceship, a flame-thrower, she seems to have acquired Benedict's axe, what more is needed?

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SherlockedCAMPer Consulting Detective

SherlockedCAMPer

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A good suit made of mythril

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Inge l-w Consulting Detective

Inge l-w

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Sadly, no Norse gods or Elven connections in the family tree, not even dwarf armour! Dear Arcadia might choose lightsaber, though, she did once, when we were arguing over brunette locks on somebody's head! :smile:

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Grab the light saber first Inge and then have fun. Maybe work together taking out a random tree.

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Inge l-w Consulting Detective

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Nope! No way, dear SherlockedCamper! Then it would be both Arcadia and Tom Bobadil after my scalp! I do want to live to watch the Special at least! :smile:

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SherlockedCAMPer Consulting Detective

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Ok, then use it to slice bread and see if it will toast the bread as it's sliced (think hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy).

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Arcadia Consulting Detective

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Maybe we need an old fashioned fencing duel as Hamlet and Laertes do in Benedict's Hamlet.

I'm afraid Sittything's idea is probably closer to what it would reallly look like....

 

 

Grab the light saber first Inge and then have fun. Maybe work together taking out a random tree.

What! No! NO! There will be no harming of innocent trees!

 

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But there is always my other suggestion right above your post Arcadia.

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Arcadia Consulting Detective

Arcadia

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Ooops, I think we cross posted. But I like my idea better.... :evilinside:

 

 

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No, the play isn't cursed!  :sherlock:

 

But bless, Cumberbuddy...I assume you all know 'who she is', as it were?!

I'm only surprised Benedict didn't recognise her.

Oh hang on, was she just posting somebody else's story?

Cos as far as I'm aware, she doesn't do stage door...or maybe that's just setlock. I know she doesn't do setlock.

Anyhow I can only repeat, I was surprised Benedict did stage door at all this time...

I don't care whether it's still going on when I'm there or not, as I don't do stage door...

But I do hope it was paps misbehaving and not naughty fan girls.

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Inge l-w Consulting Detective

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Sorry, besleybean, haven't the faintest idea who or what entity hides behind Cumberbuddy! Could you enlighten the rest of us who do not currently live in the UK?

The cursed one is supposed to be Macbeth, anyway!

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Arcadia

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I don't think it's cursed, I just think it's receiving more attention than any play normally does, so everything is amplified.

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Funny, because the last pics and movies from the SD gave me an impression that things settled down. There seemed to be no screaming and the "crowd" looked like only few people. I even wanted to post a comment that obviously people who are going now, have seen the play several times already and have all their autographs and selfies. Wrong!

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Who is Cumberbuddy?  Does anyone know who that is, or we all thinking someone else does and none of us do?  lol

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She is a famous fan girl.

She is the one that Benedict claimed as one of his bitches, when he was on the Graham Norton show.

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Cumberbuddy is one of the Twitter accounts I follow. She is not the source of the information, but only quoted the girl who's got injured. I chose that tweet because the follow-ups contain a piece about using flash - I was just to lazy to write a text myself.

Sorry for the confusion.

 

ETA: besleybean, I didn't know she was famous, I chose to follow her because she seemed well informed and people tweet to her a lot.

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While I went into Tumblr with my eyes open, and discovered many weird and wonderful things and fans, like Ariane de Vere, she of the transcripts, PlaidAdder, WendyMarlowe and others, I am extremely, even abnormally suspicious of Twitter! Just saying!

And isn't the whole b**** thing supposedly settled?

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Surely BC didn't say bitches.  He hates the term cumberbitches.

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