"The Play's The Thing" - April 9, 2021

[Scott M]

To drink or not to drink?

Silly question. I'll be in the long line at the Tiki Bar.

🏝

[grwinski]

Ashore!

Another fun one from Matt (of course, it's only fun 'cause we got it! Last week we were in mud all weekend!)

Rita and George

[Tom Mueller]

On the beach!

[Cindy]

Solved

[RobM]

On the beach. Spent a good deal of time on a false trail, but once I dropped my initial idea it came quickly.

[Pembroke]

On the beach.

[Laura M]

Stuck in an interminable meeting, but I'm also on shore :-)

[LadyBird]

On shore! It was not a HARd swim at all--no need to use an aTLAs to find shore (although I did need a quick consultation with google). These puzzles--and this forum--have been a sUBStantial source of enjoyment these past 52 weeks (and 51 birds)! The occasional anGUish from an unsolved meta is more than compensated for by the goodwiLL of everyone here. Thank you!

If we were still having yesterday's weather, then I would ask for a summer shandy at the tiki bar; however, today's weather dictates a dark and stormy.

[Dow Jones]

On shore. Even though I'm "Shakespeare Challenged", this was a smooth and fun solve.

[Joe]

That was right in my wheelhouse. Good thing. I've been home sick all day after Pfizer vax #2 yesterday. I feel gross, so it's nice to be on the beach.

[JimJim]

On shore...Coughing, gagging and spitting up water. Rough swim.

[BrennerTJ]

Made it to shore fairly easily on this one (still floundering with Monday Muggle and MEOW but now have time to keep trying...).

[minimuggle]

Onshore with smooth enjoyable sailing. Great puzzle. Have to find another challenge for the weekend. Ready to raise a glass.

[Georgeall]

Ashore!

[Streroto]

Quite a bit of work to do this without a printer. Very limited tech on vacation and I am a pencil and paper guy. But did it on phone and copied to a grid and I am safely ashore.

Stay well all

[ajk]

Onshore after proving to myself that I can still recite the speech from memory.
Consider myself a decent Shakespeare buff and still had a bit of a wobble in one spot, so I would definitely call google fair game for this one.

[Bird Lives]

Gloucester:
Met as we are forsooth upon this beach
Awaiting new arrivals from the ship
What think you of the numbers yet to come?

Gonzago:
My liege, the ship lies fully half a league
From this still half-deserted shore.
Not many will arrive. Behold the sea
Afroth with waves beneath the welkin’s cheek.

Miranda:
Sire, credit not Gonzago when he speaks.
He was the favorite not long since by five
And yet did finally suffer vast defeat.
I caution you, upon us will be hordes.

Norfolk:
Tis always wise to heed Miranda’s warning.
And so my precious silence I shall keep.
[exeunt]

Surrey:
I see them now, I swear by all the fringe
Upon my balding top, a larger beach
Is what we need. They come in wave on wave
These muggles streaming happily ashore
The Guinness doth o’erflow their bulging tankards.

Norfolk:
Thou speakst true of Guinness, for these throngs
Will be the record yea for weeks to come.
Poor Isaac left behind with not a soul
To share his watery tavern on the waves.

Cordelia:
What says the captain , he who did prepare
For hundreds yet to languish on his decks
And whose capacious craft is now deserted?

Sir Toby Belch:
Wonder not my lady. The captain too
Is striding through the shallows to our shore.
I’ll call to him. Good sir what say you now
About the ship we chartered for this cruise?

Brody
As Mistress Page hath said, indeed size matters.
In matters of size your estimates did fail.
Your ship could hold four thousand and still float
But now you’re gonna need a smaller boat.
[exeunt omnes}

[Cindy N]

Woohoo, made it to post before page 10!! Definitely enjoyed this one.

[LadyBird]

Onshore after proving to myself that I can still recite the speech from memory.

This brought back memories of driving my (and other kids) to high school. One of the requirements in one of the English classes was to recite that soliloquy from memory. Went through several years of listening to muttered recitations from the back seat on the way to school. No one was reciting it with meaning--they were all plowing through it as quickly as they could before it dropped out of their memory.

[TMart]

On shore.