Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Quotes that might have been
We find William Shakespeare downing a few pints with friends in the neighborhood pub. The conversation is enthralling and a few charming ladies are hanging on his every word. But, alas, the ale has gone to his bladder and he is nearly squirming as his urgency grows by the minute. He is afraid that if he leaves to go to the bathroom, Sir Francis Bacon will away with the wenches and the Bard of Avon will have no one calling. That angst, with some modification begat one of his better known lines,...
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