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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2623
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 4:41 pm: | 
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Hi all
I just thought it might be fun to have a thread where people can post items, or parts of items, with a wacky component.
Robert |
Suzi Hanney
Chief Inspector
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 921
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 5:58 pm: |
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Robert-
Wow!!! Bit of a coup there cub reporter Linford!!!!He lived in Peck 'em too!!!!! great!!! What date was that??? WW1???
Cheers
Suzi |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2626
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 6:07 pm: |
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Suzi, it was Sept 8th 1914, World War I - so we wouldn't have had Captain Mainwaring saying "In the name of the King, I demand to see your pigeon."
Robert |
Neale Carter
Detective Sergeant
Username: Ncarter
Post Number: 56
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:13 pm: |
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Some more candidates for our animal "hall of fame" along with Tiddles and Barnaby & Burgo. |
Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 1280
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 4:20 am: |
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Of the police court caes I have seen in the Times, this must be one of the oddest. Dated 6 July 1887
Chris
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2650
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 4:55 pm: |
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Absolutely hysterical! Tycho Brahe will be turning in his grave.
This one's up your street, Chris.
11th APRIL 1891
Robert
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Suzi Hanney
Chief Inspector
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 956
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 3:06 pm: |
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Robert!!!!
What a beauty! That was the buisiness!!! now we've got the level!!!!
Suzi |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2688
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 5:35 pm: |
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Hi Suzi
There was a funny one about a man who was fed up with being called Jack the Ripper. However, the "Times" website is now restricted access, so I'll have to get it off the microfilm.
Robert |
Suzi Hanney
Chief Inspector
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 963
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 11:30 am: |
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Robert!
Cant wait for that one!!!!!!!
Must go get some pics done for this!
Suzi |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2865
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 12:17 pm: |
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This weird item was from the "Massilon Independent" 1898 :
So there you have it. Feeling off colour? Stick your head down a drain.
Robert |
Christopher T George
Chief Inspector
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 859
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 1:37 pm: |
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Hi Robert
The last one is interesting when we think about suspect Robert D'Onston Stephenson, who admitted himself to London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, in summer 1888 and was there during the whole time of the murders. The late Melvin Harris questioned why D'Onston would move from "healthy" Brighton to "unhealthy" Whitechapel, except to commit the Whitechapel murders. But here you have dug up a news story about a person who appeared to have gone purposely to Whitechapel for their health, which contradicts Harris's thesis.
Best regards
Chris George
(Message edited by chrisg on August 24, 2004)
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2867
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 3:17 pm: |
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Hi Chris
Well, I remember reading somewhere that the "toshers", the people who scavenged in sewers, were supposed to be immune to several illnesses which laid low their neighbours - though how long it took them to acquire this immunity, I can't say.
Robert |
Caroline Anne Morris
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Caz
Post Number: 1210
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 10:09 am: |
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Hi Robert, Chris,
My mum always used to swear that one of my school pals picked up every bug going because she had so many baths per week that her 'good' bacteria never had a chance to build up and protect her.
And I used to think this was my mum's way of saving hot water!
Love,
Caz
X
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Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1098
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 11:34 am: |
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Hi Cazzikins!!!
Send for Nitty Nora the Nit Nurse I say!!!!!!!
God age is a terrible thing!
Cheers
Suzi x
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 3089
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 1:13 pm: |
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The following item is rather odd.
"TIMES" AUG 25th 1888
Robert |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 4774
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 4:13 pm: |
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This item bears out something that Bob Hinton was saying recently, about it sometimes taking several bullets to even slow someone up. If ever a man needed to clear his throat, this guy did.
JAN 4th 1888
Robert |
Robert Clack
Chief Inspector
Username: Rclack
Post Number: 626
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 6:11 pm: |
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Hi Robert,
I remembered reading this. Not really strange but goes to show store alarms aren't a modern invention.
15 November 1895
Rob |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 4776
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 6:20 pm: |
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Thanks Rob. It conjures up an image of Leather Apron creeping about in his slippers, only to be given away by an electric bell ringing.
Robert |
