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Seedersandleechers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 06:46 AM Original message |
Scientists want to dig up Shakespeare to find out if he smoked weed |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 06:49 AM Response to Original message |
1. Why not let the Bard rest... |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:48 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Hell no. |
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Syrinx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 06:50 AM Response to Original message |
2. How could they tell that? |
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Seedersandleechers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 06:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Joe Dallesandro |
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Syrinx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 07:04 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. what relevance does an "underground gay sex icon" have regarding what you posted? |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
25. Photographed by Scavullo |
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LARED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 06:58 AM Response to Original message |
4. I think Mr. Thackeray may have been under the |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 07:51 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Not everyone agrees with you |
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LARED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:05 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Maybe it just me, but I don't give a hoot if |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:46 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. So mocking Thackery did not work so you shift to 'I don't care'? |
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LARED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 09:05 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. I failed to see that this investigation was one of great importance |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:51 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. It's been suggested he had crippling arthritis in his hands by the end. |
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Syrinx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 06:59 AM Response to Original message |
5. And I think you may be misquoting the Doctor |
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the other one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 07:05 AM Response to Original message |
7. "shake-speare" was Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 07:15 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. No, he wasn't |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:45 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Not going to university probably saved him. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 07:29 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. And the 'evidence' that Oxford wrote the plays? |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:42 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Which is another argument against Oxford. |
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veerik (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 01:39 AM Response to Reply #11 |
32. the evidence lies in the gunpowder plot |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 01:48 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Um, Shakespeare was not a chronicler, he was a playwright. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:36 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. If you had ever bothered to read Oxford's WYSIWYG poetry |
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John Paul Jones (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 07:06 AM Response to Original message |
8. What ever happened to the concept of "rest in peace?" |
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Syrinx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
10. seeders and leechers |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 07:39 AM Response to Original message |
12. Please excuse me for asking, but did marijuana grow in Britain in the late 1500's? |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:01 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Ropes were made from hemp; the Royal Navy needed quite a lot of rope. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 09:27 AM Response to Reply #12 |
28. I always assumed there was at least some trade in hashish |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
13. Hemp was crop number two after wheat in that time and place |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:25 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Might be a whole other explanation of his problems with his father. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 08:52 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. When our younger folks picked up new habits it caused |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 09:08 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Actually, I was thinking of it the other way around. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 09:29 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. interesting... n/t |
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Downtown Hound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
30. Who the hell cares? |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-11 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
31. So what exactly is this supposed to prove if they do exhume him? |
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LetTimmySmoke (970 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
33. I give it a 99.84% chance of a positive |
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SoDesuKa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 01:48 AM Response to Original message |
34. Out Out Brief Candle |
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peopleb4money (206 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
36. They should |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 02:05 AM Response to Original message |
37. What a ridiculous reason to disturb his eternal rest ... |
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