# All the world's a stage **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-worlds-a-stage/34270 "2000-09-23T14:33:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-worlds-a-stage/34270/1 "2000-09-23T14:33:47Z")
A weird case of synchronicity today . . . Last night Mr. Scarlett (should I call him Rhett?) and I bought a bunch of stuff at the mall at a store called Stage. This morning, as we were bringing the bags in, I looked at the big logo on the bags and commented, “All the world’s a stage . . .” Later, I was reading the comics. In _Frank & Ernest,_ which I don’t normally read, is the line “All the world’s a stage . . .” Later, I was reviewing the SD thread about pranks played on teachers, because Mr. Scarlett wanted to know if there were more good ones besides the ones I remembered at dinner, and there’s **Zenster** saying, “All the world’s a stage . . .” All this in the space of three hours. Allen Funt is dead. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-worlds-a-stage/34270/2 "2000-09-23T14:44:07Z")
Shakespeare is gone, but his words live on. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-worlds-a-stage/34270/3 "2000-09-23T15:52:38Z")
And all the men and women merely players. Oooh…players…where?? ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-worlds-a-stage/34270/4 "2000-09-23T16:00:40Z")
They have their exits and their entrances. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-worlds-a-stage/34270/5 "2000-09-23T17:06:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spider Woman \* > Shakespeare is gone, but his words live on. TB, or not TB… That is the congestion Consummtion give us the answer? Of cough, of cough! ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-worlds-a-stage/34270/6 "2000-09-23T17:13:37Z")
Go listen to Rush. Right now. The album: _Moving Pictures_ The song: **Limelight** The lyric: “All the world’s indeed a stage, and we are merely players, performers and portrayers.” The bass solo: Ahh. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-worlds-a-stage/34270/7 "2000-09-23T18:08:16Z")
::gasp:: ::chortle:: ya done da Bard proud. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-worlds-a-stage/34270/8 "2000-09-23T19:13:14Z")
Sounds like something that happened to me (just Thursday actually) On Wednesday night on Jeopardy there was a mention of The Catbird Seat and Binary stars… well on Thursday in English class we started to read The Catbird Seat and in Physics our teacher got to talking about Astrophysics and mentioned… you guessed it Binary stars.