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Anthropologist says Shakespeare might have smoked marijuana
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune ^ | 5/4/03 | Peg Meier

Posted on 05/13/2003 9:06:56 PM PDT by MikalM

Edited on 04/13/2004 3:39:17 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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1 posted on 05/13/2003 9:06:56 PM PDT by MikalM
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To: longshadow; PatrickHenry
Oh no! The Bard's been bagged!
2 posted on 05/13/2003 9:09:12 PM PDT by Aracelis (Oh, evolve!)
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To: MikalM
So Shakespeare inhaled, did he?

This explains some of his plays. Particularly Othello.
3 posted on 05/13/2003 9:09:51 PM PDT by Terpfen
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To: MikalM
Well, if it was plain ol Kansas style rope hemp, it'll only get you high if you climb the rope.

Voice of experience here kids.
4 posted on 05/13/2003 9:10:45 PM PDT by wardaddy (Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain, and all the children are insane)
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To: MikalM
The article says.....Although there is NO proof.....

These idiots are so trying. If you don't have proof shut the heck up!!

5 posted on 05/13/2003 9:10:48 PM PDT by crazykatz
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To: MikalM
...he surmises that some of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays also lend credence to the possibility that the writer smoked marijuana for inspiration.

I wonder how many students have had to smoke marijuana in order to study those sonnets and plays...

6 posted on 05/13/2003 9:12:42 PM PDT by TrebleRebel
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To: MikalM
"Cursed be he who moves my bones."

(GASP!) Could this be another veiled reference? Did Shakespeare play ........yahtzee?

7 posted on 05/13/2003 9:17:22 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: crazykatz
The article says.....Although there is NO proof.....

Obviously this guy is no Jayson Blair.

8 posted on 05/13/2003 9:18:41 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: MikalM
I am in bud
Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
9 posted on 05/13/2003 9:19:58 PM PDT by The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
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To: MikalM
His aunt may have had balls, too, but . . . . we really don't know, do we?
10 posted on 05/13/2003 9:25:23 PM PDT by BenR2 ((John 3:16: Still True Today.))
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To: crazykatz
The article says.....Although there is NO proof.....

I had to scroll back up and see if this was from the NY Times.

11 posted on 05/13/2003 9:38:50 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: MikalM
A better question would be, did the Earl of Oxford smoked pot?
:o)
12 posted on 05/13/2003 9:52:42 PM PDT by Maximum Leader (run from a knife, close on a gun)
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To: MikalM
Somebody ask Joe Sobran if this is true.
13 posted on 05/13/2003 10:04:06 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: Arkinsaw
Well, Sobran would say that it was Edward de Vere who was toking, wouldn't he? :)
14 posted on 05/13/2003 10:09:29 PM PDT by jejones
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To: MikalM
"Dude, wherefore art thou?"
15 posted on 05/13/2003 11:22:48 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Romeo and Juliet's Excellent Adventure)
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To: MikalM
"To be or. . . . What was the question?"
16 posted on 05/13/2003 11:24:50 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (A Midsummer Night's Pipedream)
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To: MikalM
Several 17th-century clay pipes found at the site of William Shakespeare's home were used to smoke marijuana, a South African anthropologist says.

"You're a very silly man, and I'm not going to interview you."

17 posted on 05/14/2003 12:56:48 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: MikalM
So this is what journalism has come to.

A headline that says something "might" have happened, and a sentence buried in the article that "there is no proof."

What's next?

Headlines like "Elvis MIGHT be alive," "John Kerry MIGHT be a shaved bigfoot," "George W. Bush MIGHT have been abducted by aliens"?

Talk about turning mainstream into tabloid journalism.
18 posted on 05/14/2003 5:53:18 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: MikalM
Two [pipe fragments] also showed evidence of cocaine.

Yeah, must be space aliens running that cocaine processing and transport to England back 400 years ago.

19 posted on 05/14/2003 7:27:10 AM PDT by dark_lord (The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
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To: MikalM
One of Will's descendants is still keeping up the family tradition.


20 posted on 05/14/2003 7:29:20 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Shriner's Childrens Hospitals Provide Free Medical Care to Those In Need.)
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