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Posted By: Max Weder

Didn't Hamlet actually say:

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio...." (instead of "I knew him well")

from:

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/hamlet/hamlet.5.1.html

"HAMLET
Let me see.

Takes the skull

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell
me one thing.

HORATIO
What's that, my lord?"

(Slight adjusted for modern times)

HAMLET

Where is the rest of my VCBC subscription?

Max

(And remember, Rick didn't say "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca)