The term "Lady Disdain" comes from my favorite play, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare.

I was looking to rename this site and wanted something short, something that would stick in peoples minds, and above all, something that reflected me. Being the quote whore that I am, I've memorized a lot of lines from Much Ado and this was always one of my favorites. That's the story, short and sweet.

Here is the whole exchange:

Beatrice: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signor Benedick; nobody marks you.
Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?
Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence.
Benedick: Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard hear, for, truely, I love none.
Beatrice: A dear happiness to women; they would else have been troubled witha pernicious suitor! I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that; I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
Benedick: God keep your lady ship still in that mind! So some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.
Beatrice: Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such a face as yours were.
Benedick: Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
Beatrice: A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.
Benedick: I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer. But keep your way a' God's name, I have done.
Beatrice: You always end with a jade's trick; I know you of old.
 

The current inception of this site was concieved May 28, 1999. It was a concerted effort to have a common layout design and to have all links in working order. The title banners at the top of every page (excluding the main page) are my handwriting and were made in Paint Shop Pro 5.03