The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 06, 2022

Ah, a great dane.

He’s a howling success.

Oh bay.

Shakespaw?

What about Wagstail?

Me thinks the slings and arrows are to follow at that time of night.

Is this a bone I see before me?…

Nice soliloquy, now shuffle arf

This “play” on words is bad enough to be good.

A Baskerville Hound?

He does this same soliloquy every month.

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles…….________________________________________________

Oooh noble beast, thou art so cute! Woof!

Shakespeare in the Bark…

Da Do Ron Ron Ron, Da Do Ron Ron……

“Is this a bone I see before me?”

Alas poor Yowl-rick I buried him somewhere….

Yeah, I know it’s a cartoon. Still, it’s mixing up the soliloquy and the Yorick speech.

Alas, poor Yoric. I gnaw him well.

Shakespeare in the dog park.

As an aside: The reason the grave digger in Hamlet dug up Yorick, the dead court jester whose skull is exhumed by the First Gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1 is because it was usual in Europe to bury the bodies for one year for the flesh/innards to rot away and then recycle the plot for the next corpse. If you think about it, it makes sense; thousands of years of inhabitation would cover the land with grave plots, otherwise.

The full moon doth reckon!

Spot was sent out.

R.I.P. Doug That Bluetic hound had a call you could hear for miles, spent some of the best times of my life with him.

He’s a little bit of a ham. Sort of a hamlet.

I bet he’s near San Francisco’s waterfront.

Before you decide on baying, can you tell me where the hamlet and eggs are?

Somewhere between Macbeth and McGruff!!

next he’ll ponder the weighty matter of to pee or not to pee…

He also wrote “Bitus Andronicus,” “As You Lick It,” “The Comedy of Terriers”….

Alas, poor Yorick. I gnawed him well.

“♬ Brush up your Shakespeare ♬…”

Sigh Shakespeare has gone to the dogs.

E Bay to the moon.