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Not only were Shakespeare's daughters illiterate - so were his parents!
In fact, the man from Stratford-upon-Avon may himself have been illiterate. All we have in his handwriting are a few signatures, spelled several different ways and some barely legible.
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There is no problem with timing/death, there is no problem with presumed motives for anonymity and there are no crippling problems with the writing styles.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you haven't read the Anderson book. (Anderson, by the way, is a lefty, so there goes your class handicapping objection.)
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"Shakespeare" By Another Name (Mark Anderson) makes it a slam dunk for Edward de Vere and, to brutally mix metaphors, The Shakespeare Guide to Italy (Richard Paul Roe) is the icing on the cake.
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One other thing to learn about Shakespeare: He wasn't Shakespeare.
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Lends new meaning to the term "backstretch."
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I don't understand how anyone could have seen Nadal's previous race and then say he looked "average" in today's field.
He "wins like a champ" today because he won like a champ in that previous race.
(Note: I'm not saying you had to prefer him today at 4-5 to KG's 9-2.)
(Though . . . geezus ... considering Baffert's record at Oaklawn . .
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V: "What are you doing?"
T: "Walking."
V: "Don't let on any more than you have to."
T: "In the rain."
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"Nice little Jackpot 6 you got going there. Be a shame if anything happened to it. . . ."
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In my best Fred Gwynne voice, what's a yute triffet?
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. . . is the outrider at Los Al with the red jacket, the black hat and the black face mask.
When I grow up, that's who I want to be.
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Might have to move to England when racing resumes there . . . .
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Irony is alive, as it appears Aqueduct may reopen.
As a hospital.
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Silver Charm Wrote:
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> Life is good for most of us.
Let us hope you don't go down in history with Walter Duranty. . . .
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And now Maryland racing is once again cancelled.
"Potato potahto tomato tomahto! Let's call the whole thing off!"
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Today Maryland's governor banned public gatherings of more than ten people, so racing might be off again.
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Paragraphs four, five and six talk about some confusion re the governor's statement.
Or did you mean something else by: "The article had zero to do with it." ?
You lost me.
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At the moment, it is not entirely clear that Maryland racing has been shut down.
TRIGGER WARNING: As per usual, any time a journalist steps outside his or her field of expertise there are errors of commission and omission.
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Your chances of being beheaded just went down.
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Fearless Fosdick aka Finnick the Fierce has been scratched.
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Congress members generally depend on their staffs and interested parties (also known as partisans) to read legislation and offer advice as to how to vote.
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This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for horse racing. (At least I hope it is.)
Flood the Intertubes with FREE past performances.
And, when the crisis passes, keep those past performances free.
Oh, and lower takeout. That too.
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It's a brutal decision no matter what you do.
For instance, the more businesses you close the more paychecks people are going to miss. Which means the more mortgage payments and rents and car payments that won't be paid. Do people lose their houses? Do renters get kicked out? Do people lose their cars?
How many businesses never re-open due to loans not being repaid? How many
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I'm no apologist for the race tracks but two quick points:
1) I doubt the race tracks have the power to wiretap and many other powers of the FBI.
2) Businesses have to worry about the financial implications of lawsuits being filed against them by the accused; the government doesn't.
(Again, I am no apologist for the race tracks.)
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Talk about an aptly named horse: His top money earner is Doddsprivatelabel.
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I never did trust those guys at Mallorca. . . .
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