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/ The Least Successful Collector \
| |
| Betsy Baker played a central role in |
| the history of collecting. She was |
| employed as a servant in the house of |
| John Warburton (1682-1759) who had |
| amassed a fine collection of 58 first |
| edition plays, including most of the |
| works of Shakespeare. |
| |
| One day Warburton returned home to find |
| 55 of them charred beyond legibility. |
| Betsy had either burned them or used |
| them as pie bottoms. The remaining |
| three folios are now in the British |
| Museum. |
| |
| The only comparable literary figure was |
| the maid who in 1835 burned the |
| manuscript of the first volume of |
| Thomas Carlyle's "The Hisory of the |
| French Revolution", thinking it was |
| wastepaper. |
| |
| -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic |
\ Failures" /
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|
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ Welcome to the year of the tiger! \
| |
| OK, I'm kind of an abstract ASCII tiger.|
| I have to fit a BBS screen and be ASCII |
| as that's what bcw142 is best at. |
| |
| PS. Go Bengals ! ;) |
\ /
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ Hmm, there's that Ox again! I've got to \
\ do something as it's so last year. /
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ Accent on helpful side of your nature. \
\ Drain the moat. /
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|
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ Q: What's the difference between USL \
| and the Titanic? A: The Titanic had a |
\ band. /
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ Where's that groundhog? It sounds \
\ tasty. /
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|
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)