Bring It!
I can’t believe I’ve gone almost eleven months without a blogger feud. Let’s do this.
Nonny Nu (nonnynu dot blogspot dot com), a blogger who writes mainly about her cats, decides to throw some stones.
First, she uses a picture of my King Lear cake on a Happy Birthday posting on her blog, which is totally fine with me. But then she ends with this:
P.S. That isn’t the birthday cake. That’s just some photo I found on the web. But, can you believe some people are so serious and hoity toity as to quote Shakespeare on a birthday cake? No doubt, they will be having wine with it. *eyes*
Serious and hoity toity? I rather thought I was being whimsical and hoity toity. And what’s wrong with a little wine on your birthday?
That’s it, Crazy Cat Lady, I’m calling you out. Don’t you know it’s not nice to taunt a fellow blogger? Especially not one whom you have given temporary control over the image at the top of your blog? I just replaced it with this picture and you should just be glad I didn’t get all goatse.cx on you. (To my readers: If you don’t know what that is, just let it go.)
Let this be a warning to others. Rule number one: you do NOT mock the Shakespeare Teacher.
UPDATE: She’s got it fixed now, but for about eight hours today, her site looked like this.
UPDATE II: I just read through her comments, and she posted this image of a cake that has such a delicious self-referential paradox that even W.V.O. Quine would ask for seconds. (Who’s hoity toity now?) I think I’ll head over and offer a truce.
UPDATE III: The truce has been accepted, and what must be the shortest feud in Internet history has come to an end.
UPDATE IV: The one-day feud has now been immortalized in an anagram.
November 30th, 2007 at 9:38 am
That pussy blogger better watch it!
November 30th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
“pussy blogger”
Touche! One might take offense absent the double entendre!
These well-read blog commenters are good. But methinks that the taunting started here…
November 30th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
That’s it, Crazy Cat Lady, I’m calling you out. Don’t you know it’s not nice to taunt a fellow blogger?
Hey, did you know that they make a cream for that now?
November 30th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Just defending you over at Nonny Nu’s blog. And by that I mean that I made fun of both of you.
November 30th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Alas, poor Shakespeare Teacher, I knew him, Nonny Nu, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a
thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is!
My gorge rises at it.
November 30th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
That’s a tough case to make, since I never heard of the cat blog until I came across the hurtful comments reprinted above. I am not guilty of starting this feud, only of escalating it beyond any reasonable standard.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Let’s pretend this was all a bad dream. In the morning, you can have Shakespeare cake and I will eat my carrots and pet my cats. Admit it, though, Bill, those are the cutest cats around, aren’t they?
November 30th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
P.S. It’s not a cat blog. I’ve just been stuck on cats recently.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:02 am
The cats are adorable.
Welcome to Shakespeare Teacher, Nonny Nu (and Mr. Nonny Nu). You’re welcome back any time.
December 1st, 2007 at 1:22 am
I know the feud is over….and I do not wish to start another, but I have had my share of pesky problems with cat bloggers. Wonder why that is…
glad it’s over though.
December 1st, 2007 at 7:18 pm
OMG! I’m so not a cat blogger–GAH!
December 1st, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Then Ro should have no problem with you.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 am
I don’t care if the feud is over – I’m just finding out about it now and I’m from Detroit and all kinds of badass, so: I just want to say that I was THERE when that cake appeared and there was NO wine – just delicious Dunkin Donuts coffee, great company, a LEGENDARY King Lear reading, lots of laughter, the cake was equally hilarious, lovely and delicious and that cats suck and doggies RULE! Anyway – Nonny Nu hasn’t spent much time on the site if she didn’t realize the inherent humour of one Mr. Shakespeare Teacher and the “infinite jest” of which he is legend. “Hoity-toity”????? People who assume that Shakespeare is hoity-toity and unaware of his endless stock of bawdy lowbrow puns are exactly what this site is up against. I got my spear, dear, and I’m prepared to use it!!! :)
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:53 pm
DeLisa, yeah, I’m sorry you missed the feud. You’d have enjoyed it.
I think you’re right about the wine. That was the day we got the Box O’Joe from Dunkin’ Donuts. But it’s not uncommon for us to drink wine at these things, and even if we did have wine, who should care?
I LOVED this:
I hope I can continue to live up to that noble goal. Shakespeare should be for all of us, not just the hoity toity.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
I was THERE when that cake appeared and there was NO wine
Likely story…
P.S. I am onto cockroaches today.
December 5th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Any change from the cats will be welcome.
October 29th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
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