# Beware the Ides of March!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084 "2001-03-15T13:12:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/21 "2001-03-15T16:36:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DSYoungEsq \* > \*\*Since the Ides in April are 4/13, you don’t have to worry much about them, other than that nagging thought that, in two more days, at about 10PM, you have to sit down, rush through the forms, copy a bunch of stuff, and race to the Post Office by midnight… 😉 \*\* What’s all that entail? Oh… Tax stuff? Heck, I did mine months ago. You’re just getting around to yours? ::runs really, really, really, really virtually fast:: ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/22 "2001-03-15T16:42:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enderw24 \* > \*\*Brutus, Judas, Cunnilingus… > > they all started out with good intentions, but a tiny slip of the tongue and they landed in deep shit. \*\* **Sig alert!** May I use it? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/23 "2001-03-15T16:49:22Z")
Hey! knock yourself out! [sub]I want royalties[/sub] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/24 "2001-03-15T17:31:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > > **CAESAR** He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass. > > William Shakespeare, _Julius Caesar_, act I, scene ii. > \*\* See, that was his mistake right there. Always pay attention to the dreamers. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/25 "2001-03-15T17:44:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Since the Ides in April are 4/13, you don’t have to worry much about them, other than that nagging thought that, in two more days, at about 10PM, you have to sit down, rush through the forms, copy a bunch of stuff, > and race to the Post Office by midnight… Not this year because two days past the 13th is a Sunday. They’re giving us an extra day. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/26 "2001-03-15T18:32:30Z")
I can’t help but think of the [Reduced Shakespeare Company’s](http://www.reducedshakespeare.com/home.html) version (as seen recently on PBS): SOOTHSAYER: Beware the Ides of March! CAESAR: What the hell are the Ides of March? SOOTHSAYER: March 15th. CAESAR: [looking at watch] Why today is March 15th! [Caesar is stabbed to death] Worse than that, though, was Titus Andronicus (done in style of a cooking show): TITUS: Lavinia! Receive the blood! LAVINIA: Okey-Dokey! So now, whenever I hear someone say “Okey-Dokey” (which is more often than one might think) I think of that scene… ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/27 "2001-03-15T19:06:23Z")
You know, Hannibal Lecter says “Okey dokey” a few times in **Hannibal** … coincidence? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/28 "2001-03-15T19:27:25Z")
On the Ides of March in 1991, I met an ex-SSO (Significant Significant Other). On the Ides of March in 1994, we began the our breakup. To this day, I’m not sure which of these days the soothsayer was trying to warn me about. 🙂 Sua ---
**Author:** ![gypsy\_gurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@gypsy\_gurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gypsy_gurl)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/29 "2001-03-15T20:23:05Z")
yea…so we don’t have to worry about 4/13…the ides of april…except for the fact that it’s friday the 13th…AND a full moon here in cleveland, oh …freaky no??? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/30 "2001-03-15T22:59:21Z")
[grump] Well, at least I can see that _some_ people know what it is. _sigh_ I said _Beware the Ides of March_ to my co-workers this morning, and all I got were blank looks. And then I had to explain it to them. And the explanation is difficult, since they claimed never to have read _Julius Ceasar_. [/grump] ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/31 "2001-03-16T00:11:14Z")
My dear departed kitty Miss Dinah Prunella was born on the ides of March. _sniff_ Oh Pruney how I miss thee… I love that Reduced Shakespeare link! I wonder if they have anything to do with the “15-Minute Hamlet” I saw a high school drama group do many years ago… The encore was an even quicker version. For their second and final encore, all the characters just ran on the stage and immediately fell down dead. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/32 "2001-03-16T01:36:40Z")
dantheman: It was Casca who first stabs Caesar not Cassius. As he does he says, “Speaks hands for me.” It was also Casca who says “It was Greek to me.” That line is usually credited to three or four others also. Can you tell I not that long ago did 10 straight weeks of Shakespeare in rep throughout the midwest? TV ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/33 "2001-03-16T01:42:00Z")
Damnit! And I didn’t have Latin today. We could have milked the opportunity to have an Ides of March party. I know our teacher would have said yes…hmmmm. Well, we could always have an Ides of April or Ides of May or June…😛 Still. Not quite the same as March. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/34 "2001-03-16T02:11:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*I have nothing to add, really; I just thought this would be a good place to show off my .sig. 🙂 \*\* Et Tu Brute? That was my very first sig. You all got me nostalgic, so I brought the baby back. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/35 "2001-03-16T02:22:23Z")
**Dantheman:** Your taxes are done already? Sigh. And I woke up this morning actually liking you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/36 "2001-03-16T02:40:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TV time \* > **It was Casca who first stabs Caesar not Cassius. As he does he says, “Speaks hands for me.” It was also Casca who says “It was Greek to me.” That line is usually credited to three or four others also.** [tongue in cheek]Hey, you say Casca, I say Cassius. I say potayto, Dan Quayle says potatoe, what’s the difference? Guy got stabbed by someone whose name began with C! In fact, I bet when the play was performed in Shakespeare’s time, whoever in the company had a name beginning with C would get the gig. And if none in the company did, they’d scour the village and countryside, looking for a man whose name started with C. Which is why plays took so long to perform. Damn casting! [/tongue in cheek] Seriously, though… 10 straight weeks? Good for you! Not an easy task, I warrant. 🙂 Good luck to you in the future, too! And dearest, sweetest **Persephone** , do not hate me 'cause I did 'em already… hate me 'cause I got my rebate already! hehe ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/37 "2001-03-16T04:21:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by drewbert \* > I love that Reduced Shakespeare link! I wonder if they have anything to do with the “15-Minute Hamlet” I saw a high school drama group do many years ago… The encore was an even quicker version. For their second and final encore, all the characters just ran on the stage and immediately fell down dead. In the PBS show I saw (and managed to tape the last 2/3) they did all that… Plus one final version–_backwards_. “Oh yeah… be sure to listen for the satanic messages.” ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/38 "2001-03-16T04:43:58Z")
Hmmm,I find it odd that my girlfriend and I appear to breaking up, within the Ides of March, after six months of being together. Coincidence…? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BigStar303](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@BigStar303](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigStar303)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/39 "2001-03-16T04:50:53Z")
I had a friend in high school who was, shall we say, just a little bit off. One day, his English class was studying Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” They were reading aloud from it, with various class members assigned parts. The role of the soothsayer fell to my friend, and when his big moment came, he declared: _“Beware the ideas of March!”_ Sometime later, this same guy had the role of Caesar for his final big scene. This is exactly what he said…all of it! _“Eh-tu Broot? Then fall Caesar. Dies.”_ ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/40 "2001-03-16T04:55:38Z")
I got so sick today that I had to leave school within the first two hours of being there. We’re starting “Julius Caesar” in English class next Tuesday… only a few days too late. Damn “Lord of the Flies”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084.md?page=3)