[Fictionary] fub results!

[Jim Moskowitz]

Just a bit of explication of my def:


>fub - n. - a strip of cloth used to protect the hands when pulling rope.
>"Oh, that I were a fub upon that hand!" -- Romeo and Juliet, act II,
>scene 2, Marcer (transcribed) edition
>
>David gives this 1 point, for lack of drama.
>Nicolas awards 1 point for innuendo humor.
>Hutch dissents: The quote feels like it oughta be "glove" instead, and
>I'm *pretty* sure that I recall that as being the quote.
>Elliott holds his tongue: "Looks like we're supposed to infer that
>there's a real line with "thumb" instead of "fub", and that the
>shorthand reporter transcribed it wrong. But what would Shakespeare
>have meant by such a line?  The mind boggles. I'm betting this is
>edited natural Shakespeare.  The award I want to give it is not fit to
>be named in a wholesome forum like ours."
>Linda gives this definition 2 points.
>Jean-Joseph chimes in: "Romeo and Juliet, huh?  My knowledge of the
>Bard's work is meager, but I think that there are probably others here
>who know this play well enough that they'd know this if it were real."


It is, of course, real Shakespeare, with fub taking the place of glove:

"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
[,,,]
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!"

But my meta-conceit, which I was hoping to tantalize people with by 
quoting it as the "Marcer (transcribed) edition", was that there were 
pirated copies of Skax's plays created by having people with very 
good memories attend a performance and then write them down from 
memory afterward... occasionally making mistakes like hearing "glove" 
as fub".
Don't laugh at the idea of memorizing a play by watching it -- Mozart 
at the age of 14 famously attended a Sistene Chapel service that 
included Allegri's "Miserere", which the church had forbidden the 
publication or performance (outside said Chapel) of.  When it was 
over, he went home and wrote out the entire thing, a choral work for 
a 5-voice choir and a separate 4-voice choir. 
http://www.geocities.com/geotassie/miserere.html

-Jim