Or, 'taking the piss', as it is more vulgarly put. There certainly is plenty of scope for it. Here is a beauty:
Source: cartoonsbyjosh.com
Inspiration: comment posted by PB on Bishop Hill's site (http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/1/4/josh-64.html)
Now the speaker of the original line in the play (Richard III) was a bit of a conniving, scheming, nasty sort of a chap, and caused a great deal of harm.
Would the Bard have been inspired to do a play around some of the characters in the Great CO2 Plot?
Or, perhaps a Chaucer might have penned some Copenhagenury Tales?
Or can we still take a lighthearted view, despite the awful waste of spirit and resources due to the Plot, and think of it as material for a new Gilbert & Sullivan?
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