Wherefore art thou Doc?

[cupid04]

Has Doc been suspended? Twice I've tried to get on one of his threads and I get the
message:- Cannot retrieve the thread.Has he bee naughty again?

[DTCwordfan]

he is around

[Mick-Talbot]

a round what?

[cupid04]

why am I having problems then?

[cupid04]

Glad you are behaving youself!

[cupid04]

I mean yourself!

[andy-hughes]

You are using a famous misquote here cupid04 -

when Juliet asks "Wherefore art thou Romeo..." she isn't asking Romeo where he is, she is asking him WHY he is Romeo - in other words, why does the man she loves have to be Romeo, a member of the one family that her family are enemies with.

Yours pedantically ...

[cupid04]

You and markrae then!

[mike11111]

Cupid is not misquoting. When she says, "Wherefore art thou, Doc?" she is asking WHY is he Doc, not where.

Yours, equally pedantically &c.

[cupid04]

That still dosen't answer why I couldn't retrieve two of Doc's threads. Perhaps
someone else was naughty on them. So long ago, I cant even remember what they
were about.

[andy-hughes]

Sorry to disagree mike 11111 but it is clear from her initial question that she asking where Doc is. She goes on to observe that she can't retrieve Doc's threads, which means she is asking where they are - she is not asking Doc why he 'is' Doc, so she is making the common error when using the quote, of asuming that Juliet asked where Romeo was, which she did not, she asked why he was Romeo - not the same thing at all.

It's a simple error based on Elizabethan language.

Yours finally pedantically, A.

[mike11111]

Sugar, you're right of course. Only trying it on, but should have known better than to think I would get away with it.

[andy-hughes]

Awww, I feel bad now .... LOL!