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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Dr Mirabolis: Blish's Baconian bookend
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Investigating the phrase "more X than you
can/could shake a stick at" is broadly
fruitless, per
<https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/92393/origin-of-more-x-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at>

Though the suggestion that somehow it's about
William Shakespeare, is interesting.

It is not what "Shakespeare" was based on
unless he was invented after 1818, as
probably someone is claiming.