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rosencrantz and guildenstern 

The (possibly?) gay couple that Hamlet is friends with in the play of the same name.

They are duped by Claudius into escorting Hamlet to England to be killed, but Hamlet escapes. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern then unwittingly meet the English King, and and hand him a letter instructing him to kill them both. They die. Nobody cares.

In the play, they always appear together, and seem to be entirely co-dependent. They have no real individual traits.

Despite the fact that they are fairly minor characters, they have a sort of cult status. Tom Stoppard wrote a famous play called "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", which tells the story of Hamlet from their perspective.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet...

GUILDENSTERN
Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambition is merely the shadow of a dream.

HAMLET
A dream itself is like a shadow.

ROSENCRANTZ
Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.
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rosencrantz and guildenstern 

interjection

1. warning given to not kill the messenger
Don't get all rosencrantz and guildenstern on me, but I saw your sister in a gangbang video involving midgets and animals.

Guild Master Syndrome 

An affliction of the MMO player. Symptoms of Guild Master Syndrome (Hereafter referred to as GMS) includes a false sense of superiority derived from their status in an Massive Multiplayer Online Game, such as having a high level and advanced equipment and being the leader of his or her guild. Sufferers of GMS typically have a group of "hanger ons" conisisting of individuals much younger than themselves. Said individuals are very impressed with third tier loot. Most sufferers of GMS are often considered douchebgs and should be avoided at all cost.

Note:There is no known cure for GMS
Ex 1 :
Person 1: "Do you know how popular I am on the internet? I'm a fucking guild master."

Person 2: *Face palm*

Ex 2 :

EB employee: "Heres your wow card and your copy of pirates of th carribean 3. Would you like to purchase insurance for your game for an extra $3?"

GMS sufferer: "Yeah man, for sure. Like when I'm with my guild, I always back my shit up."

EB Employee: "Oh yes, that's facinating."

GMS Sufferer: "Yeah man, for sure it is, like last night me and my guild were on this raid and all the fuckers got wiped out except me and I was left alone and single handedly took out every one of those hoard moher fuckers myself. It was the shit, I was the shit, I'm awesome at WoW, we should chill sometime."

EB emplyee: "Ummmmmm... Okay, yeah... Maybe sometime... talk to me later..."

GMS sufferer leaves.

EB Employee 2: "Guild master syndrome?"

EB Employee 1: "Yep."
Guild Master Syndrome by _spin_ August 23, 2009

Guildenstern

The better of the two in the play Hamlet.
Guildenstern is fantastic, ie. Better than Rosencrantz
Guildenstern by Hildy November 18, 2003

Grillmaster 

When your friend serves you a meal from his/her barbeque and you don't like it. You express your dissatisfaction by taking a full on shit on the grill, where your food was cooked. You cover it up and the let the heat do its work.
Gregg put an avocado on my hamburger. I asked myself ,"Who puts an avocado on a burger?!" I left Gregg a grillmaster to demonstrate my outrage.

GrillMasterDad 

GrillMasterDad is one of the sexiest people you’ll ever meet. He knows how to grill like an absolute champion and he’s a dad?? what more would you want in a man?
Girl: I love GrillMasterDad
Girl 2: I can see why, he’s an absolute chad with that grill.
GrillMasterDad by Frapa 2 October 26, 2022

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 

Minor characters of Hamlet, Childhood friends of Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's motto was Ingen Bekymringer which also means No worries for the rest of your days, which taught Hamlet to ignore responsibility and just ignore the whole Claudius thing.

Rosen and Guilden are also probably dead, but I haven't read the original story, and I don't plan on doing so... 29,551 WORDS?!?!