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Addison Zeller's avatar

The Earl of Oxford should be celebrated for what he did give us, which is the anecdote in Aubrey that he let off a particularly fruity one before the Queen and felt so humiliated that he left the country for seven years. Elizabeth greeted him upon his return with the gracious words “My Lord, I had forgot the fart.”

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B. C. Taylor's avatar

Have pity on me DBH for I have erred. I have tasted of the Oxfordian fruit. It was the videos of Alexander Waugh wot dun it, Guv'nor. Whatever you do, good people do not check them out for yourselves on youtube. Do not do as I have done. *jangling of chains*

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