all quiet on the Eddie deVere front.

^&%#@!?

I think what poor-ious really meant to say is "675321?". The answer to that question is, of course, 42.

actually, Rule3, nobody not drinking in their room after dark.

I'm not so sure that the case for Oxenford writing Shakespeare is very strong. My current theory is that Anne Rice wrote most of the Shakespeare canon. For instance:

JULIET: O think'st thou we shall ever meet again? ...

ROMEO: I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our time to come.

JULIET: O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.

ROMEO: And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:
Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!

Go on, try and prove me wrong. Dare ya!

The mason poor that builds the lordly halls,
Dwells not in them; they are for high degree.
His cottage is compact in paper walls,
And not with brick or stone, as others be.

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 1573