[Ansteorra] Bardic PSA- RECALL NOTICE

[Paul DeLisle]

Where, ohh *WHERE*....is Da'ud Bob ibn Briggs, when we *really* need him?
Alden

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ansteorra-bounces+ferretpd=gmail.com at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:ansteorra-bounces+ferretpd=gmail.com at lists.ansteorra.org] On
> Behalf Of Biatrichi Di Palermo
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 2:33 PM
> To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Bardic PSA- RECALL NOTICE
> 
> Though the Black Star is looking for a movie review on this.  Come
> on...the snark value should be irresistible.
> 
> Biatrichi
> :-)
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Casey Weed <seoseaweed at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Warning: A performance piece is being released on the 28th of this
> month
> > specifically targeting reenactors, arm chair historians, and
> Elizabethan
> > clothing enthusiasts that is toxic and represents a serious choking
> hazard
> > to all viewers with any sense of historical integrity or
> academic/artistic
> > interest in William Shakespeare.
> >
> > Due to a huge monetary push by the Black Helicopter and Tin Foil Hat
> > Conspiracy Crowd, the release of the film, "Anonymous", will happen
> as
> > planned.  Apparently, the costumes will be enough to satisfy the
> higher
> > court requirements for integrity despite the fiction-as-fact
> representation
> > of the Care Bears vs. Transformers plot.
> >
> > If you discover that you are watching "Anonymous", do not panic.  The
> > following RECALL notes should prevent you from becoming a laughing
> stock to
> > the historically literate:
> >
> >   1. RECALL that the Earl of Oxford died in 1604 and that many of the
> plays
> >   were written *later* than 1604
> >   2. RECALL that the actual solid written evidence we have- court
> records,
> >   handwriting, broadsheets- say that the author of William
> Shakespeare's
> >   plays... was William Shakespeare, the glovemaker's son.
> >   3. RECALL that Ben Jonson- Shakespeare's competitor and friend-
> believed
> >   Will wrote everything in the First Folio and says as much in the
> >   Eulogy/Dedication.
> >
> > Ansteorra sits on the edge of a Braveheart level epidemic of
> misinformation.
> > Do your part to protect us.
> >
> > For more:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/opinion/hollywood-dishonors-the-
> bard.html?_r=1&src=tp&smid=fb-share
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [A serious note- and truly the reason this subject gets me riled
> enough to
> > post a PSA to the Ansteorra list- is this: the entire argument that
> "He
> > couldn't have written it" is classist claptrap from inception.
> Genius can
> > and does come from the common man- a German patent clerk who failed a
> > college entrance exam... the half deaf son of Canadian expatriates
> who was
> > kicked out of school... the bastard son of a poor Italian peasant
> girl.
> > Einstein, Edison, Da Vinci.   If they can be great, any of us can be
> great-
> > never tolerate the lie that succeeding requires breeding.]
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