A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral...
So what you're telling me here is that Mel Gibson played the role of a tiny village sans a religious center for worship??? See...this just proves several of the things I've been known to bitch about...the shit they teach ya in school is suspect to say the least...I grew up thinking...Hamlet was a long drawn out misinterpreted writing from the first medical marijuana user in human history...because let's be honest...NOBODY has ever read a Shakespeare work and NOT left scratching their head...wondering WTF they just read...reading Shakespeare requires a language deciphering skill set that anybody boring through BUSHISMS would have found promising and useful...I would like to know where this word originated from...seems to me that a 'hamlet' would be the offspring of a boar...sorta like a piglet is the offspring of the domesticated pig...or maybe a smaller version of the ham...like veal cutlets are smaller portions of the same product...and what makes the appearance of a church change the outcome of the name by which a region is called...are states NOT responsible for issuing the charter incorporating a city??? Did we all NOT learn about the separation of church from state while we were in school??? I live in the city of East Jordan...where we have NEVER had a cathedral of any kind...we currently have more churches than bars...and more houses for sale than people crazy enough to consider buying them...but we are not classified as a hamlet...town..or village...how this place still survives is beyond me...ya know what does change the name by which a region is referred to...the size of the population...but it only works one way...a place where people begin to gather together is first called a hamlet...then a village...then a town...a city...a suburban sprawl and finally a mega metropolis...but this only happens as the size of the population increases...when the population of an area decreases the name by which the region is referred to as...remains the same...until such a time as all verbiage is exhausted and the final term for a place that once held a significant amount of population becomes a ...ghost town...which is what my little 'burg' of being happens to be going through at this moment...it seems ridiculous to think that in this day and age...a place that was once home to thousands...is now harboring hundreds...NO folks...ya know what a hamlet is...a word that didn't fit...and therefore is seldom used in the current era...I know some of you are scratching your head as if ya just read a passage from Macbeth...a word that doesn't fit...what on Earth could he be talking about now...well think about it folks...NOBODY walks around saying it takes a HAMLET to raise a child...or hey...somewhere a HAMLET is missing their idiot...cuz it just doesn't fit...I mean seriously...some of you...most of you...okay all of you...should be old enough to remember the the late 1970's...do you honestly think the disco hits...YMCA...and In The Navy...would have been huge hits if...The HAMLET people were the ones performing the tunes on stage...HELL NO...probably wouldn't have sold a single ticket to an event...even as an opening act for Freddie Mercury & Queen at a stadium in San Francisco...during a Fairies with Flowers Festival...a hamlet should come in a small can...like SPAM...and make weird slurpsucking sounds when the purchaser tries to unass it from the tin...or it should refer to a platter full of pork and eggs...much in the style of an omelet...with PIG being the only ingredient wrapped in the eggs...it shouldn't be used as a name...I don't care how bigga playwright you were back in the heyday of dressing up in frilly fabric more suitable for the fairer sexes...look what it did to poor Mr. Gibson...he became so confused about his identity he made antisemitic slurs...something that anyone suffering an identity crisis associated with being devoid of a deity worth worshiping should be expected to endure...I mean seriously...in the modern era...where STUPIDITY seems to rule the day...I hafta believe that even though I have NEVER spent a single day in a courtroom in the position of a litigator...I could mount an arguable defense using that theory as my basis for establishing innocence on behalf of BRAVEHEART!!!
