# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/41 "2001-03-16T05:09:01Z")
I’m just back from accosting George (the guy we keep accusing of looking very Caesar-like) with plastic cutlery on his way back from the shower. Much fun was had by all 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/42 "2001-03-16T06:27:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\* Damn “Lord of the Flies”. \*\* Damn “Lord of the Flies”? DAMN “LORD OF THE FLIES”? Grrrr… I love that book. Well, maybe _love_ is too strong a word for a book where kids turn into savages and skewer pig’s heads and all, but still… But hey, what do I know? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Alonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonist)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/43 "2001-03-16T11:43:23Z")
Did anyone else notice that [**Dagger**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=63574) joined yesterday? ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/44 "2001-03-16T15:11:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\*I never found them all that scarey. Last summer they played one of the local Taste Ofs and the next night Survivor played the same fest. I suppose the difference was they left the horn section at home the second night. Then 38 Special played and, as url=“[http://www.jimpeterik.com/jimindex.htm](http://www.jimpeterik.com/jimindex.htm)”]Jim Peterik had written many of their songs, the whole thing was pretty incestuous. > > I don’t suppose many of you have any idea at all what I’m talking about. 😉 \*\* They played at my ex-boss’ prom. For some reason he was very proud of that. “Vehicle” is a great song. Just heard it the other day, and had to turn it waaay up. Unbelievable horns. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/45 "2001-03-16T15:53:00Z")
hijack - April 13th is my birthday too - end hijack ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/46 "2001-03-17T05:01:34Z")
hijack: Lindy: Heh. “LOTF” isn’t that bad. Nowhere near as good as “Catcher in the Rye” though. done hijacking; get back to your normal business. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/47 "2001-03-17T13:52:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > **Heh. “LOTF” isn’t that bad. Nowhere near as good as “Catcher in the Rye” though.** Sorry, but according to the Decree of SturmHauke, I must declare that Holden Caufield is a complete idiot and I hate that book. I liked _Grapes of Wrath_ which I read in the same class, but everyone else felt the opposite way. _sigh_ As for the Ides of March, I have to be careful every year that I don’t die the day before my birthday. I take all the usual precautions, such as not walking across the freeway at night in heavy fog, or sleeping in a tent on an airport runway. ---
**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 17, 2001, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/48 "2001-03-17T13:58:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sturmhauke \* > \*\*Sorry, but according to the Decree of SturmHauke, I must declare that Holden Caufield is a complete idiot and I hate that book. \*\* Yes! One of the most overrated pieces of horse manure ever to fester itself on this rotating orb of mostly water in our universe’s history! ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/49 "2001-03-17T15:12:20Z")
I am wounded! I extremely disliked “Grapes of Wrath.” I liked “A Tale of Two Cities” but then we read “Les Miserables” which seems like almost exactly the same book. I didn’t like “Les Mis” so that ruined “ATOTC” for me. I didn’t see what was so great about “1984”. Good concept, I guess, but too sexy. ---
**Author:** ![rayniday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@rayniday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayniday)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/50 "2001-03-17T17:04:50Z")
I always hear beware the ides of March. That’s cause it’s my birthday too, and everyone’s scared of me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/51 "2001-03-17T21:59:15Z")
I think it’s safe to assume that much of Shakespeare, _Julius Caesar_ included, has been translated into most other common languages, Spanish included. Last year I was taking a college Spanish course. On the class of March 15 I wrote, on the blackboard, the Spanish of Caesar’s smug comment to the soothsayer, and the latter’s ominous response. (I regret I never learned the Spanish word for “soothsayer.” :o) English: “The Ides of March are here.” “Ay, Caesar, but not gone.” :eek: Spanish: “Los idus de marzo están aquí.” “Sí, César, pero no se han ido.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2001, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/52 "2001-03-18T12:15:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\*I am wounded! > > I extremely disliked “Grapes of Wrath.” I liked “A Tale of Two Cities” but then we read “Les Miserables” which seems like almost exactly the same book. I didn’t like “Les Mis” so that ruined “ATOTC” for me. I didn’t see what was so great about “1984”. Good concept, I guess, but too sexy. \*\* I guess that means we are doomed to like and dislike opposite books. But I never read Les Mis or 1984 so I don’t know for sure. Oh well, the Earth will still orbit the Sun. ---
**Author:** ![Bboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@Bboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bboy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084/53 "2001-03-18T13:10:02Z")
> [@](#): > > **mrblue92** said: > > **CAESAR:** [looking at watch] Why today is March 15th! > > [Caesar is stabbed to death] Damn you! I laughed so hard I nearly died too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beware-the-ides-of-march/58084.md?page=2)