Two more 15 Second Plays

(Two elegantly dressed young women and one plainly dressed older one

standing between them in elevator)

Young Woman #1: Sniff, Sniff…

Young Woman #2: It's Jean Patou Joy, 800 dollars an ounce. Sniff, sniff…

Young Woman #1:  Clive Christian, 2,100 dollars an ounce.

Young Woman #1:  Sniff, sniff....ooofff!

 Young Woman #2:  Sniff, sniff ...Omigod!

Older Woman:  Broccoli, 49 cents a pound.

(Metro-North Train, evening rush hour, jammed with passengers standing)

Conductor: Tickets, all tickets please.

Commuter:  To stand here like cattle?  People had it better 2000 years ago.

Conductor: 2000 years ago you would have been walking.

Commuter: Read your Bible.  Book of David, chapter 9 

“ Balaam rode to town on his ass”

Conductor: Your Point?

Commuter: He couldn't have done that on this train.

And one 5 Second Play:

(Neighborhood Diner)

Customer:  Excuse me waiter, will the pancakes be long?

Waiter: No. Round.

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Above, small sampling of the nearly 2000 words and phrases coined or created by Shakespeare. Others include: 

Truth will out

Dead as a doornail

Every dog will have its day

Fool’s paradise

The game is afoot

It’s Greek to me

Kill with Kindness

Love is Blind

And of course, 

All’s Well that ends well.