Content-Type: message/rfc822 Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:21:40 -0400 From: "NABOKV-L" To: Subject: Shakespeare, the Earl of Oxford, and . . . Bacon? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=__Part5A7E2804.1__=" --=__Part5A7E2804.1__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline [EDNOTE. Phil responds to Walter Miale's mischievous assertion that "Shakespeare might have been anybody." SES] Couldn't agree more. I'm "dotty" enough to recognize the fact that the plays and the sonnets, in hundreds of instances, reflect in amazing detail known facts in the life of Edward De Vere...and none in the life of the Stratford man. Phil Howerton ----------------- You may have noticed that I'm chiming in tardily on earlier postings to which I was able to comment earlier. My apologies for lateness. In reply to Jansy Mello, with whose correctness it is a pleasure to be a supporter Dmitri Nabokov wrote: > Dear Jansy, dear Andrew, > > I am almost certain there's no point in going far afield in search of > the bacon the Random House Dictionary of Americal Slang, Vol I cites p 60: bacon n 1 the penis -- usu considered vulgar < it isn't clear which of the three items they consider vulgar: 'bacon' 'penises' or this usage: JAR> make bacon ... to copulate