[Ads-l] Does Shakespeare prefer Apple. Linux, or Microsoft?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Mar 19 03:10:55 UTC 2016


That's a great one.  I misread it even with the subject line (Wilson's, not The Guardian's) giving it away.

> On Mar 18, 2016, at 10:12 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> A headline in The Guardian:
> 
> "William Shakespeare's handwritten plea for refugees to go online"
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__goo.gl_UoTBYG&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=9gBf444VFL6Ep_YKjfeTXOdP5y1644YlZR-QqjQpYu4&s=Pe557HY8jk_IYksbOVzd-IUeIEroscEcxFe1g0l5iQA&e= 
> 
> -- 
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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