Fri 18 Jul 2008
This story of the theft of an original Shakespeare folio is one bit of Williams lore with which I was previously unfamiliar. Oh, and should I ever play Trivia again, dibs on Middlebury Professor Sinclair E. Gillingham as my team name …
July 18th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I see that Slate uses that euphemism, because of which Cactus Jack Garner called the press panty waists, lo’ those many years ago.
July 18th, 2008 at 11:05 am
My Trivia moniker would have to be Zephaniah Swift Moore.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
What a zany story, Jeff…it’s ready-made slapstick. One of the thieves even tried to pass off a forged letter asking the judge for leniency?! What a creative bunch. In this day and age they would be on staff at The Daily Show.
There is another character in the saga (the folio historian) whose shortened name would also make a great team moniker:
H. Otness.
July 19th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Well, in this day and age a truly hilarious Williams grad is the only woman on the writing staff of the Daily Show and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Writing, Variety, Music Or Comedy Program. Rachel Axler ‘99 (and the rest of the stellar writing staff) won last year. Congrats on the nomination!
July 19th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Go Rachel Axler ‘99!