UPDATE:  Apologies are due to Greta Christina who was in fact ranked by an atheist website as one of the top ten popular atheist bloggers. rjh 

Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?”

HO remembers their Huckleberry Finn?  In chapter 19, Huck, Tom and Jim, afloat on the Mississippi River,  meet up with two grifters, the Duke and the Dauphin, who claim to be exiled European royalty.

Their scam is going from town to town performing makeshift “scenes” from Shakespeare’s plays, then escaping with their lives when the rube public hear declamations like this:

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so…