From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 59555
Date: 2008-07-13
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:Yes, I know. I thought it entirely possible, however, that
>> At 7:07:36 PM on Thursday, July 10, 2008,
>> david_russell_watson wrote:
>>> In English there is the expression "There's something
>>> rotten in the state of Denmark".
>>> Would anybody happen to know what the history or
>>> explanation of this odd expression is?
>> It's spoken by Marcellus in Act I, Scene 4 of 'Hamlet'.
> David knows that very well. He tells us that by
> paraphrasing Hamlet's monologue later in the posting.