Subject: Shakespeare, the Earl of Oxford, and . . . Bacon?
From: "NABOKV-L" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:21:40 -0400

[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

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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 <page 61.

The Cassell Dictionary of Slang, London  on p 43 cites:

    bacon n ....3 the penis

    bacon sandwich n [20c] the vagina

Someone who saw the first Lolita film at a college cinema reports
that that line "broke the kids up" (i.e., "I ate all your bacon."

Keep up the fine work.

John

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