A half pun identifies them with bugs ( coreis ) when Strepsiades complains that he has been bitten by Corinthians ( line 710 ).

Strepsiades explains that students of The Thinkery learn how to turn inferior arguments into winning arguments and this is the only way he can beat their aggrieved creditors in court.

It is Strepsiades ' deme ( line 134 ) and he looks for it incredulously on a map in The Thinkery ( 210 ).

Strepsiades imagines he can hear a lament from one of Carcinus ' daemons ( line 1261 ) though it is unclear if this refers to a character from one of Carcinus ' plays or if it refers to Xenocles in tragic mode.

Strepsiades likes his poetry but Pheidippides thinks it is full of smoke ( line 1366 ).

The second agon in The Clouds is between Strepsiades and his son ( 1345 – 1451 ) and it is in iambic tetrameter for both speakers.

In Aristophanes ' comedy The Clouds ( 423 BC ), when the character Socrates is quizzing his student on poetic meters, Strepsiades declares that he knows quite well what a dactyl is, and gives the finger.

Faced with legal action for non-payment of debts, Strepsiades, an elderly Athenian, enrolls his son in the " thinkeria " ( the " Phrontisterion ") so that he might learn the rhetorical skills necessary to defeat their creditors in court.

Strepsiades, having thought up a plan to get out of debt, wakes the youth gently and pleads with him to do something for him.

Strepsiades regards her as a symbol of his own wife ( lines 48, 800 ).

Strepsiades compares his wife to Colias and to the Genetullidae, women's goddesses who shared the Anaphlystus sanctuary ( line 52 ).

Strepsiades ' aristocratic wife can number more than one Megacles in her family tree ( lines 46, 70, 124, 815 ).

The Clouds sing ominously of a looming debacle and Strepsiades again comes back on stage, now in distress, complaining of a beating that his new son has just given him in a dispute over the celebrations.

Strepsiades compares the noise of thunder to the sound made in his stomach by festival soup ( line 386 ) and Superior objects to feeble performances of the Pyrrhic dance that he has witnessed at the festival lately ( 988 ).

Rejoicing in the prospect of talking their way out of financial trouble, Strepsiades leads the youth home for celebrations, just moments before the first of their aggrieved creditors arrives with a witness to summon him to court.

The son thereby learns cynical disrespect for social mores and contempt for authority and he subsequently beats his father up during a domestic argument, in return for which Strepsiades sets The Thinkery on fire.

The play begins with Strepsiades suddenly sitting up in bed while his son, Pheidippides, remains blissfully asleep in the bed next to him.

Pheidippides however will not be persuaded and Strepsiades decides to enroll himself in The Thinkery in spite of his advanced age.

Impressed, Strepsiades begs to be introduced to the man behind these discoveries.

Introduced to them as a new devotee, Strepsiades begs them to make him the best orator in Greece by a hundred miles.

He summons Strepsiades outside and attempts further lessons, including a form of meditative incubation in which the old man lies under a blanket while thoughts are supposed to arise in his mind naturally.

The incubation results in Strepsiades masturbating under the blanket and finally Socrates refuses to have anything more to do with him.

His son, Pheidippides, subsequently yields to threats by Strepsiades and reluctantly returns with him to the Thinkery, where they encounter the personified arguments Superior and Inferior, associates of Socrates.

Superior Argument accepts his inevitable defeat, Inferior Argument leads Pheidippides into the Thinkery for a life-changing education and Strepsiades goes home happy.

The story resumes with Strepsiades returning to The Thinkery to fetch his son.

Strepsiades comes back on stage, confronts the creditor and dismisses him contemptuously.

A second creditor arrives and receives the same treatment before Strepsiades returns indoors to continue the celebrations.

He ends by threatening to beat his mother also, whereupon Strepsiades flies into a rage against The Thinkery, blaming Socrates for his latest troubles.

Socrates instructs Strepsiades to look towards the mountain for the arriving clouds ( line 323 ) but in fact the mountain cannot be seen from the Theatre of Dionysus.

Socrates accuses Strepsiades of smelling of this festival i. e. being old-fashioned ( line 398 ).

Later, in the agon between Strepsiades and his son, a line of dialogue in iambic trimeter ( 1415 )-adapted from Euripides play Alcestis-is inserted into a speech in iambic tetrameter, a transition that seems uncharacteristically clumsy.

After the child complains that he / she got grounded, given detention, etc., by the defendant, the audience would boo and throw garbage, fake fruits, Potatoes, Squash, Dirty old socks, Breakfast Cereal, and 1 half pint of milk at the defendant.

Don Alvarez is granted an audience with the Queen and complains about his treatment ; Dona Maria is accepted as one of her maids of honour.

With a captive audience, she complains that he does not really love her and he ends up promising to flagellate himself if she frees him.

At Krusty's retirement press conference, the audience finds his tirade against modern comedy hysterical and he returns to comedy with a new style where he complains about commercialism.

If Bragi's mother is Frigg, then Frigg is somewhat dismissive of Bragi in the Lokasenna in stanza 27 when Frigg complains that if she had a son in Ægir's hall as brave as Baldr then Loki would have to fight for his life.

The people murmur against God and are punished by fire ; Moses complains of the stubbornness of the Israelites and is ordered to choose seventy elders to assist him in the government of the people.

Unlike Moses, who tried to defend Israel when they sinned with the golden calf, Elijah bitterly complains over the Israelites ' unfaithfulness and says he is the " only one left ".

After Balaam started to punish the ass for refusing to move, it is miraculously given the power to speak to Balaam, and it complains about Balaam's treatment.

Some of these similarities include that, in parallel to Skaði and Njörðr in Skáldskaparmál, Hadingus is chosen by his wife Regnhild after selecting him from other men at a banquet by his lower legs, and, in parallel to Skaði and Njörðr in Gylfaginning, Hadingus complains in verse of his displeasure at his life away from the sea and how he is disturbed by the howls of wolves, while his wife Regnhild complains of life at the shore and states her annoyance at the screeching sea birds.

When Rosencrantz complains that there is not enough action, pirates attack.

In " Silence in the Library ", while trying to open a wooden door, the Doctor tells Donna that the sonic screwdriver won't work because the door is made of wood, a fact later restated in " The Hungry Earth "; when Rory complains about this, the Doctor counters to not " diss the sonic.

Tort law is also differentiated from equity, in which a petitioner complains of a violation of some right.

Princess Margaret was portrayed by Lucy Cohu in the Channel 4 TV drama The Queen's Sister ( 2005 ), by Trulie MacLeod in the TV drama The Women of Windsor ( 1992 ), and by Hannah Wiltshire in the TV drama Bertie and Elizabeth ; she is portrayed silently in the second series première of Ashes to Ashes ( 2009, set in 1982 ) and subsequently complains off-camera about one of the principal characters.

When Maggio complains that Judson's piano playing is interfering with his dancing, the two nearly come to blows.

Manuel answers that he is willing to receive the French army and to support it, but he complains about receiving the letter from an envoy of the King of France and not from an ambassador sent by the Pope.

This is in contrast to the debased symposiastic Greek culture of which he complains in some of his other works.

Where allegedly the victims were executed with cold steel weapons. A patrol of 16 special operatives were coming back from a raid in a nearby village which they had raided a few hours earlier they looted and beat the villagers is what they said, this was done several times a week through 5 villages the patrol rout was always the same which the investigation after the massacre claimed that Albanian guerrillas had been monitoring the patrol for some weeks after they got complains by the ethnic Albanian villagers and had realised that the patrol was always the same rout and approximate times.

Freud's " classic " early dream analysis is that of " Irma's injection ": in that dream, a former patient of Freud's complains of pains.

After Balaam starts punishing the donkey for refusing to move, it is miraculously given the power to speak to Balaam ( Numbers 22: 28 ), and it complains about Balaam's treatment.

The first part, where Gekko complains that the company's management owns less than three percent of its stock, and that it has too many vice presidents, is taken from similar speeches and comments made by Carl Icahn about companies he was trying to take over.

When she complains that the porter which she has been advised by the doctor to take is making her feel worse, the doctor takes her off it and puts her on hot milk instead, but Edward forces her to continue drinking porter.

In " Bye Bye Nerdie ", after Homer's baby-proofing business eliminates child injuries in Springfield, Hibbert complains that he is behind in his boat payments because of this.

Frank complains that his $ 40, 000-a-year salary is not enough money for putting his life on the line every day.

By the second season, Ed begins to see that he is a part of a bigger world, although he still complains about it.

She is never seen with a film crew, she never shows anyone any official credentials and complains at one point that her cameraman is never around when she needs him.