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To: Happygal
Queensbury left a note for "Oscar Wilde, posing as a somdomite" (sic). Which technically isn't a slander.

Wilde chose to prosecute the implied accusation of homosexuality, on the basis that he wasn't one. Queensbury defended on the basis of "oh yes he was".

No way Wilde was going to win that contest.

15 posted on 04/22/2003 8:13:15 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("From now on, every Christmas, we will remember a brave man called Jesus")
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To: Oztrich Boy
Never mind. Oscar Wilde was a damned good poet.
16 posted on 04/22/2003 8:24:15 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Oztrich Boy
No way Wilde was going to win that contest.

No shit! *LOL*...Doesn't take away from the fact that Wilde was probably one of the greatest wits of the 19th century.

19 posted on 04/22/2003 9:33:22 PM PDT by Happygal
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