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Shakespeare as a Role Model

Maybe William Shakespeare should have used these titles: "Cheech and Juliet" or "The Merchant of Venice Beach." Turns out the playwright extraordinaire could have enjoyed a bit more than just tobacco in his pipes. Clay pipe fragments have been excavated from Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon home in England, and it has been conclusively proven that they once contained cocaine and myristic acid--a hallucinogenic derived from plants, including nutmeg. Both were smoked in Shakespeare's 17th century England. Now before the Bard's ghost haunts us, do note that there is no direct evidence that HE actually delved into narcotics. The results of the tests on the pipes are published in the South African Journal of Science. The pipes also show hints of marijuana residue--but it can't be proven. "The cocaine was found in two of the 24 pipe fragments examined, which is really quite remarkable," Dr. Francis Thackeray, a paleontologist at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria, told Reuters. (Yes, he's a descendent of THAT Thackeray, the famous 19th century English author.) "The Spanish had access to it at that time in the Americas, but the fact that it was smoked in England at that time is a first. It is quite a find. Cocaine was recorded in Europe about 200 years ago, but to our knowledge never this early." Your homework: What does this part of sonnet 76 REALLY mean? "Why write I still all one, ever the same/And keep invention in a noted weed/ That every word doth almost tell my name."

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yes shakespeare rules!!
toke em if you got em


(someone take me away from that damn smilie page)

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Is that the same Shakespeare who wrote, "Hey, Dude, Where's My Carthage?"

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TOP!!!! - God, you people don't seem to realize that this is very unordinary!

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That's all well and good, but Shakespeare's identity is still contested. Oh well.

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Originally posted by Avondale:
Turns out the playwright extraordinaire could have enjoyed a bit more than just tobacco in his pipes.

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funny, funny Brak.

WARNING: if you smoke nutmeg, prepare to be hypnogogic for about 24 hours. especially if you rock it up and smoke it in a bong with a blowtorch.

I don't know exactly what the bard was into, but if he was smoking nutmeg, there's no way he could get any writing done.

NOTE: This warning comes from second-hand observation, not a first-person experience. I used to have a roommate that would try anything to get high. We used to make a lot of trips to the hardware store and the garden center.

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ugh, nutmeg

ICK!!!!!

i ate a shitload of it, strange buzz
you have to get the type that are whole, not the powdered kind

don't try this kiddos

NASTY!!
just smoke a joint

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Or lick frogs.

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I think it is cool that this was discovered. It would be beneficial in reconfiguring the image of mind stimulanting substances. They aren't all bad, you know, and can have positive applications in life, if used responsibly.

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*nods wisely*

I am going to tell my parents about my newfound interest in cocainne, and how it will be beneficial to my future, not much unlike it was for Shakespeare.

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Originally posted by Avondale:
*nods wisely*

I am going to tell my parents about my newfound interest in cocainne, and how it will be beneficial to my future, not much unlike it was for Shakespeare.

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Well... Freud thought cocaine was a wonderful thing...

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Well if Freud say's it's okay....


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Well if Freud say's it's okay....

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Mind you, he also had that whole bit about wanting to sleep with your mother and kill your father...

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Hey, come on now... everyone makes mistakes. *bites a roasted chunk of meat off of Sally Struther's thigh bone*

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A famous author that smoked dope and did drugs!!?!?!?!?! HOLY SHIT!!!!!!

And bunkum, I used to be a champion of the case that Shakespeare was never really a single person, but rather several different authors and a pen name, but I finally gave it up.

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