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::
Sig alert!
May I use it?
Hey! knock yourself out!
[sub]I want royalties[/sub]
See, that was his mistake right there. Always pay attention to the dreamers.
Not this year because two days past the 13th is a Sunday. They’re giving us an extra day.
I can’t help but think of the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s 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…
You know, Hannibal Lecter says “Okey dokey” a few times in Hannibal… coincidence?
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
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???
[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]
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.
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?
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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.
Et Tu Brute?
That was my very first sig.
You all got me nostalgic, so I brought the baby back.
Dantheman: Your taxes are done already?
Sigh. And I woke up this morning actually liking you.
[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
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.”
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…? 
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.”
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”.