{"id":13437,"date":"2008-12-12T21:42:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/12\/12\/you-bet-old-chum.html"},"modified":"2008-12-12T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T04:42:12","slug":"you_bet_old_chum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/12\/you_bet_old_chum.html","title":{"rendered":"You bet, old chum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Shakespeare bust switch\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/shakespeare-bust.jpg\" width=\"230\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.boingboing.net\/2008\/12\/12\/this-is-not-william.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a> asks if readers recognize where this switch-inside-of-a-Shakespeare-bust is from, &#8220;and hence why the makers believe they can get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhotphones.com\/neshstwihire.html\" target=\"_blank\">$315 a copy<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, <em>I<\/em> know precisely where it&#8217;s from*, and while I wouldn&#8217;t pay $315, I probably <em>would <\/em>pay a substantial fraction of that, if I could think of something clever to use it for. 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