Thrice the brindled cat hath mewed . . .

[swan_tower]

Back in high school, my sister and I decided to respond to a friend’s tendency to call us “witches” by circling him in a swimming pool while reciting the entire cauldron scene from Macbeth.

(Yes, we were very strange. Still are, in fact.)

Anyway, as somebody who still has that entire scene memorized, I found this to be utter and satisfying genius: “Nasty Women Have Much Work to Do.”

Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.

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[sovay]

Back in high school, my sister and I decided to respond to a friend’s tendency to call us “witches” by circling him in a swimming pool while reciting the entire cauldron scene from Macbeth.

E.L. Konigsburg, eat your heart out.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

(I totally learned it as "brindled". But the new Alan Bradley/Flavia de Luce novel has it as "brinded", and I went to the internet, and clearly that Bradley man has an unreasonable influence because it seems to be "brinded" all over these days, and now I'm just wondering if I learned it wrong to start with...)

[eve-prime.livejournal.com]

A philosopher friend of mine has been making a name for herself online with political commentary, and a few weeks ago she asked on Facebook about whether people had heard of Aleppo. Naturally, I responded immediately by telling her, "Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger. But in a sieve I'll thither sail, and like a rat without a tail, I'll do, and I'll do, and I'll do!"

Not that Aleppo's actually on the coast...

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

. . . I may have quoted those very lines in a restaurant the other night, when Aleppo came up in conversation. >_>

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Huh! Pretty sure it was "brindled" in the version I read back then, but my mother is currently asleep in the room with the Riverside Shakespeare I would most likely have consulted, so I can't double-check.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That was never my favorite of the Konigsburgs, but yes, I did indeed read it as a child. :-)

[sheff-dogs.livejournal.com]

Brindled, definitly brindled. According to my concise OED probably of Scandinavian origin.

[eve-prime.livejournal.com]

ha!:)