SPAM SPAM SPAM ...

[oldbike54]

 ...(NOT) wonderful SPAM SPAM SPAM 

 OK , for some reason WG is being targeted by spammers more than usual , just now some jackwad from Russia posted something in Cyrillic re an auger device . Do us a favor and don't open this junk , report it to the mods so the boss can deal with it . Rocker and I don't catch everything , help us keep this sort of thing at bay , thanks .

 Dusty

[twowings]

Damn, I was going to offer him top dollar, too!

[oldbike54]

Damn, I was going to offer him top dollar, too!

 Rubles my son , Rubles 

 Dusty

[sib]

Feel flattered that we are considered important enough to be targeted by the Russian cyberwar establishment.  Maybe we ought to run for public office.

[Two Checks]

Trust me, the Russkies like American greenbacks. My son used to work for a Russian company.
I guess the Russians want Guzzi trade secrets.

[oldbike54]

Trust me, the Russkies like American greenbacks. My son used to work for a Russian company.
I guess the Russians want Guzzi trade secrets.

 Well they are fishing in the wrong pond then 

 Dusty
 

[RinkRat II]

Speaking of ponds, I've been looking for an auger type pump for my ditch pump motor to drain the fishpond. Send me the website Dusty!


    Paul B

       

[oldbike54]

Speaking of ponds, I've been looking for an auger type pump for my ditch pump motor to drain the fishpond. Send me the website Dusty!


    Paul B

     

 'Twas all in Cyrillic , harder than Olde English to translate  Never could figure out if Shakespeare was really a great playwright or simply writing indecipherable nonsense 

 Dusty

[twowings]

It was a basic sales pitch for the auger...

[oldbike54]

It was a basic sales pitch for the auger...

 Shakespeare ?

 Dusty

[rodekyll]

Yeah, he wrote a play "The turn of the Auger" about that very subject.  Henry James was shocked when it was introduced in the 'industrial' category at the Sundance film festival, (1898), and reworked it as a Gothic Western.  To avoid plagiarism he renamed it "The Turn of the Screw".  The James version became so popular that by the 16th century the Shakespeare's text was largely undiscussed.  It went out of print soon afterward, infuriating Shakespeare's estate to the point that it 'unliked' everyone on facebook, leaving Francis Bacon in the catbird seat.

Did I get all the Shakespeare conspiracy theories covered?

[oldbike54]

 Except for the "portrait" question , yes  Maybe there should have been a version of

                                                         "What's my line"

 To figure out just who was who 

 Dusty

[RinkRat II]

Did I get all the Shakespeare conspiracy theories covered?

  All exept he stole the whole concept from Archmides.

   Paul

[rodekyll]

When I was in skool, there was a general teaching in lit classes that there are about 20 basic plots in prose, and there have been no fresh story plots since cavemen learned to grunt.  All we do is change the names and locations, twist it for freshness, and squeeze it for whatever titillation our intended audience will pay money for.  The Greek classics were reworkings of older stories, and our modern TV and movies are reworks of those.

[oldbike54]

 Kurt Vonnegut made the statement that all great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again .

 Dusty

[rodekyll]

For a guy with no sense of humor, he got that one right.

[ITSec]

Yeah, he wrote a play "The turn of the Auger" about that very subject.  Henry James was shocked when it was introduced in the 'industrial' category at the Sundance film festival, (1898), and reworked it as a Gothic Western.  To avoid plagiarism he renamed it "The Turn of the Screw".  The James version became so popular that by the 16th century the Shakespeare's text was largely undiscussed.  It went out of print soon afterward, infuriating Shakespeare's estate to the point that it 'unliked' everyone on facebook, leaving Francis Bacon in the catbird seat.

Did I get all the Shakespeare conspiracy theories covered?

I thought you were going to explain how the Bard ended up taking all this and using it for one of his most famous plays...


You know....




The Taming of the Screw!

[rodekyll]

I don't remember story too well, but I remember the characters in the family he wrote about were named

Phillip
Allen
Jack
Lefty
Lost
Grungy
and of course that precocious little scamp, Buttonhead.  I hated reading the part where they ripped little button's head off.