[Quincy Lehr]

Check it out:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/56008&confirm=1

[grasshopper]

Thanks for the Onion link, Quincy--it drew me on to read about Spain's new Armada aimed at the New World, and the ban on evolution in Kansas...great stuff!

Regards, Maz

[David Landrum]

Yes, cute. I've taught The Frogs, The Clouds, The Lysistrata and they are hilarious. But, alas, today we have Will Farrel forgetting to put his pants on for a news broadcast and Jim Carrie's facial contortations (not that Carrie is not occasionally funny), and that's the substance of our humor. Nothing to compare to Hercules telling a pink-robed Bacchus how to get to hell or Socrates holding court at his "Thinkery."

[Janet Kenny]

OK Quincy--I made the connection

You know what it is? It's these young people, they don't have the attention spans audiences used to. Try getting one of them to sit through a five-day festival of Dionysus. I guarantee the little punk will be squirming in his seat and checking his computerized text messages before the end of Day One, and that's in the middle of a Bacchic frenzy. They all want the same thing: stale jokes from some untutored hack—not the kind of serious stuff that's performed outdoors with a full masked chorus and lasts an entire afternoon.

"The Onion" is a delight. I keep forgetting about it.

Janet