Comments on: A Trip To Margate http://hootingyard.org/archives/2423 A Website by Frank Key Tue, 22 May 2012 19:53:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: R http://hootingyard.org/archives/2423/comment-page-1#comment-6250 R Wed, 06 May 2009 06:33:32 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=2423#comment-6250 >You old thief, you won’t get drowned, because you know that you are to be hung. These hoodlums, or hoodla, of Margate are paraphrasing 'The Tempest', so they can't be all bad ... >Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him, his complexion is perfect gallows. Or maybe Shakespeare was deploying a deeply-entrenched Margate idiom? In which case it can't be all bard ... >You old thief, you won’t get drowned, because you know that you are to be hung.

These hoodlums, or hoodla, of Margate are paraphrasing ‘The Tempest’, so they can’t be all bad …

>Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him, his complexion is perfect gallows.

Or maybe Shakespeare was deploying a deeply-entrenched Margate idiom? In which case it can’t be all bard …

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