It all started with a list of potential names for Wal*Mart wines. Things like Trailer Trash Red, etc. But then a friend kicked it up a notch by suggesting Shakespearean lines and names. And the crowd went wild . . .The list is now burgeoning, and there's new promise every day. The contributions from the original four participants just keep rolling in. Here's the list so far, and we heartily encourage you to add your witticisms in the comments section. That's all this blog will ever be--no more posts, just terrible Bard Puns in the comments.
The worse they are, the better they are.
The possibilities are endless. Think how many lines are out there in public domain, just begging to be exploited into abject horror. Now, for Hennessey, Harry and St. George! Let the puns begin!
- A Midsummer Night's Binge
- A Midsummer Night's Drambuie
- A Midsummer Night's Dreme de Menthe
- The Merlot of Venice
- "A glass pour, Yorick"
- The Taming of the Screwdriver
- A Campari of Errors
- Pericles, Prince of Tyrolia
- A Vintner's Tale
- Troilus & Cote du Rhone
- "Ophelia, get thee to a winery"
- The Taming of the Brew
- King Beer
- Titus Andrunkenness
- Much Ado About Boozing
- Henry the Trashed Part IV
- Measure for Measure (1 oz. at a time)
- Twelfth Night, or What You Swill
- The Merry Wines of Windsor
- The Wine Merchant of Venice
- Ale's Well That Ends Well
- Gimlet, Prince of Denmark
- "O! She doth teach the torches to burn neat."
- "Shall I Campari thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more TEMPERATE!"
- Love's Lagers Lost
- Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
- Othello, Merlot of Venice
- Othello, Moor of Vintners
- "Et tu, Brut?"
- Romeo & MintJulep
- To thy own vine be true
- Much Ado About Riesling
- "Grey Goose, Grey Goose, my kingdom for Grey Goose"
- "All the world's a stage . . . and beer's merely a player."
- The Sherry Wives of Windsor
- Falstaff beer (speaks for itself)
- "The better part of valor is ingestion"
- The Duke of Burgundy: "I crave no more than hath your highness offer'd"
- "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a draft horse"
- "Methinks the lady doth ingest too much"
- "We have seen better Beaujolais"
- "The lady doth protest too much, me drinks!"
- "Woe is mead."
- 'There is nothing either good or bad, but drinking makes it so."
- "Love sought is good, but gin unsought is better."
- "O Rioja! O Rioja! Wherefore art thou Rioja?"
- "Rough winds do shake the darling suds of May"
- "Now is the winter of our Creme de Menthe"
- "What's in a name? That which we call a Rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
- "Neither a borrower or on a bender be; For loan oft loses both itself and a friend, and bingeing dulls the edge of husbandry."
- "Angels and ministers of grapes defend us"
- To England send him, or confine him where your wisdom best shall drink."
- "Brewery is the soul of wit."
- "All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement/Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us/Out of this fearful Cointreau."
Add yours below!
