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Post by gwiz on Oct 7, 2005 3:32:38 GMT -4
Seems not all people in the media have given up their reason: here |
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Post by echnaton on Oct 7, 2005 9:41:43 GMT -4
Thanks, that is a great article.
But it brings a question to mind. Why haven’t we had a discussion about the Shakespeare hoax on this board? Enquiring minds want to know.
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Al Johnston
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Post by Al Johnston on Oct 7, 2005 10:45:56 GMT -4
I think it was Laurence Olivier who put paid to the notion that Roger Bacon might have written the Shakespearean canon:
"What self-respecting actor would want to be a member of the Royal Bacon Company?"
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Post by ktesibios on Oct 7, 2005 12:57:31 GMT -4
Al, I think you mean Francis Bacon, not Roger Bacon: Roger Bacon bio Francis Bacon bioBack when I was a kid, I read Fletcher Pratt's Secret and Urgent, a book about the history of codes and ciphers. There was a chapter on the "Shakespeare was Bacon" claims, since the use of "Bible Code"-like tricks was a favorite technique of people seeking evidence in Shakespeare's works that the author was someone other than Shakespeare. Pratt reported that when one skeptic applied exactly the same methods advocated by a prominent Baconian to a different passage from Shakespeare, he derived this startling message: |
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Post by LunarOrbit on Oct 7, 2005 13:07:07 GMT -4
Any connection to Kevin Bacon?  |
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Post by Count Zero on Oct 7, 2005 15:04:02 GMT -4
Well, yes; but there are several steps in between... ;D
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Post by Data Cable on Oct 8, 2005 0:18:09 GMT -4
Mmmmmm... Bacon. <drool>
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Al Johnston
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Post by Al Johnston on Oct 8, 2005 7:47:56 GMT -4
There's two of them now? Thanks for the info: as you may have guessed, the only one I knew anything at all about was Roger... ;D |
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Post by nomuse on Oct 8, 2005 15:41:04 GMT -4
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Post by lenbrazil on Oct 13, 2005 11:51:07 GMT -4
The Times and the author of the column are obviously in cahoots with the NWO. When I was in London a few years ago I saw a black helicopter near the Times HQ.
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Post by Count Zero on Oct 16, 2005 7:54:35 GMT -4
The Times and the author of the column are obviously in cahoots with the NWO. When I was in London a few years ago I saw a black helicopter near the Times HQ. No, no, no! You're suposed to say that your grandfather (now deceased) once met a guy who was a security guard who swore he saw a black helicopter near the Times HQ. ;D |
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lenbrazil
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Post by lenbrazil on Oct 16, 2005 10:35:01 GMT -4
The Times and the author of the column are obviously in cahoots with the NWO. When I was in London a few years ago I saw a black helicopter near the Times HQ. No, no, no! You're suposed to say that your grandfather (now deceased) once met a guy who was a security guard who swore he saw a black helicopter near the Times HQ. ;D But then I wouldn't be telling the truth!!!!! |
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Post by Count Zero on Oct 16, 2005 17:34:35 GMT -4
The truth? Well, in that case, the CTs will have to completely ignore it then. After all, truth is just a matter of opinion...  |
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Post by golfhobo on Oct 20, 2005 21:24:39 GMT -4
The truth? Well, in that case, the CTs will have to completely ignore it then. After all, truth is just a matter of opinion... |
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