Author: Spryder
Thursday, 07 November 2002 - 11:19 pm |        |
With the huge press coverage the case is getting recently, I thought it might be time to put together an "In the News" page on the Casebook that offers links to Ripper stories currently in the world press. I'd like to keep this thread open for people to post new urls for stories they may come across, for possible inclusion on this new page.
You can view this page at: http://casebook.org/diversions/inthenews.html
Thanks! |
Author: Jim Jenkinson
Friday, 08 November 2002 - 05:15 am | |
Stephen,
This page is a great idea, cheers.
Ally,
Yer Man's putting up links with references to Patsy's alleged man-hating.
Jim |
Author: Ally
Friday, 08 November 2002 - 07:23 am | |
Why is that a no-no? I don't care if she is or she isn't as long as if he calls her that, he can back it up.
Peace,
Ally |
Author: Jim Jenkinson
Friday, 08 November 2002 - 10:24 am | |
Ally,
I agree insipidly with you. Most of the women I have come in to contact with socially have been man-haters. I can't back this statement up nor do I understand why this is the case. 
Jim |
Author: Christopher-Michael DiGrazia
Friday, 08 November 2002 - 01:36 pm | |
Jim -
Insipidly implies a lack of taste or flavour, and is also used adjectively in reference to something being dull or lifeless (as, for example, you might say about the 'insipid editorials masquerading as humour in Ripper Notes.' Are you sure that's what you mean?
Keeping an eye on the language, ;-)
CMD |
Author: Jim Jenkinson
Friday, 08 November 2002 - 02:33 pm | |
CMD,
I have never thought or uttered anything original in my entire life. To agree insipidly is a quote from someone else. Before you even dare to question this individual's use of the English language, I have to solemnly inform you, it was spoken by no less a personage than Oliver Norville Hardy.
  
Cheers
Jim |
Author: Caroline Morris
Thursday, 12 December 2002 - 08:32 am | |
Hi All,
In the December issue of Viz, No.121, there is a two-page spoof article entitled:
'Who was... JACK the RIPPER?'
Here is a brief taster:
'No one ever knew his identity... And here's 10 MORE THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW about JACK the RIPPER
1. The Whitechapel murderer is believed by many to have been a member of the Freemasons, a secret club of corrupt coppers, businessmen and councillors. To this day, each new member of the society is entrusted with three secrets: a super club handshake and password, the names of the eleven herbs and spices that go into the batter for Colonel Sanders's Kentucky Fried Chicken, and the true identity of Jack the Ripper.
2. The smallest ever man to be suspected of being Jack the Ripper was Calvin Phillips. American crime author Patricia Cornwell accused the four-inch high New Yorker of carrying out the slayings using a darning needle as a dagger, a thimble as a top hat and half an After Eight wrapper as a cloak. And making his escape in a hansom cab made from a roller skate...pulled by a mouse!'
The Viz article also looks at possible motive, means and opportunity of four suspects: The Elephant Man, Steven Hawking, Florence Nightingale and Sherlock Holmes, concluding that Holmes 'is certainly our most likely Jack the Ripper suspect. He has the motive [he 'may have robbed the prostitutes of their money to pay for drugs and violin lessons'] and the means, and is only let down at the last hurdle by being a fictional character.'
Love,
Caz |
Author: Monty
Thursday, 12 December 2002 - 12:16 pm | |
B*LL*CKS
Roger Melly |
Author: Christopher-Michael DiGrazia
Thursday, 12 December 2002 - 03:16 pm | |
Caz -
'four inch,' eh??? Snxx, snxx - har, har har!
Finbarr Saunders |
Author: Peter Wood
Thursday, 12 December 2002 - 05:13 pm | |
Hey mutha! Where's my f*****g tea?!
Peter.
P.S. I once spent several hours in my kitchen attempting to devise a delicious, tasty, wholesome snack for my wife to enjoy after a hard day at work. Just before she came home there was a knock at the door, some old tramp looking for something to eat. He looked like he'd been in the army and introduced himself as "The Colonel".
Well, I let him share our veritable feast of chicken dipped in milk, rolled in flour mixed with 11 different herbs and spices, dipped in milk again, rolled in breadcrumbs and then deep fried until golden. He thoroughly enjoyed it and asked for the recipe, so I gave it to him.
I wonder what became of that sad, lonely old man?
P.P.S. Here's a hint to the recipe (I really DO know it!) Salt, pepper, ginger, paprika - all in the right quantities, little bit of garam masala, a few other things - now if only I had that piece of paper to hand ... |
Author: Timsta
Thursday, 12 December 2002 - 07:15 pm | |
Mind you, ya divvent sweat much for a fat lass.
Sid the Sexist |
Author: Harry Mann
Friday, 13 December 2002 - 03:54 am | |
Caz,
My notion is that he was a pinny-pincher,rode around on a pinny-farthing bicycle,shouting a 'pinny for your thoughts'.After leaving Eddowes with only a half-pinny,he went to Goulstan street where a pinny -pitching game was in progress,and he lost what he had won in Mitre Square.
Now if he had taken 'arf a nicker' from his victims that night,or collected a couple of coppers with his pinny-farthing,we could be sure his motive was robbery.
On the other hand he might have been collecting a 'pinny for the guy'.
Peter,
I emigrated to Australia,and i didn't like the bloody chicken anyway. |
Author: Caroline Morris
Friday, 13 December 2002 - 04:38 am | |
Eeeh, what's the world coming to, eh Cissy? Oooh, they don't rip 'em up nowadays like they did when me mam was a lass, eh Cissy? Cissy? Cissy? Cissy?
CISSY?
Mrs Brady Old Lady |
Author: Caroline Morris
Friday, 13 December 2002 - 04:48 am | |
Now get back in that cupboard young lady, where you belong. Girls who smile at their fathers are nothing but evil temptresses. I expect to see you properly po-faced upon my return in the small hours.
Now where's my cloak and dagger, er, I mean walking stick and opera glasses?
Victorian Dad |
Author: Christopher-Michael DiGrazia
Friday, 13 December 2002 - 09:32 am | |
It is highly illogical to expect anyone who contemplated committing an act of bloodletting in such an economically-distressed area as the East End of London wearing the gentleman's garb as colourfully described above to escape the notice of alert-eyed citizenry or the watchful members of the Metropolitan Police. Perhaps a red cloth, designated at Marshall and Snellgrove as a "handkerchief" and tattered jacket liberally smeared with offal would serve as a suitable bit of camouflage with which to infiltrate the lodging-houses and liquor-serving establishments of said geographical location without attracting undue attention, there for the aforementioned purpose of ritually dissecting the female members of a lower economic strata, accompanied by the criminal's sexual gratification as outlined in Psychopathia Sexualis.
Mr Logic |
Author: David Radka
Friday, 13 December 2002 - 03:52 pm | |
Oohh La La! What are recent posters to this thread thinking of?! Ripping up the goots! Incest between daughter and father! Rolling in the offal togged in your tatters! Uuugh!
David |
Author: Brian Schoeneman
Friday, 13 December 2002 - 05:14 pm | |
Ya'll are yucky.
I'm going to go have a bath after reading that. 
B |
Author: Caroline Morris
Saturday, 14 December 2002 - 10:37 am | |
Fictional characters from Viz are meant to be yucky - the yuckier the better as far as I'm concerned. Now then, my saucy little gingerbread minx, all fresh and hot from my oven, look out, here I come!
Fru T. Bunn |
Author: Peter Wood
Sunday, 15 December 2002 - 02:27 pm | |
Excuse me mr barman, a round of lagers for my friends and I - you'll take a cheque?
Student Grant. |
Author: Christopher T George
Sunday, 15 December 2002 - 03:39 pm | |
Hi, Peter:
I got these old bottled beers from the Lizard Guest House in Cornwell. Looks as if some of the bottles have been partly drunk and the top jammed back on. I am sure it was that Walter Sickert, the vandal, Jack the Ripper, ha ha. Anyway, cheers, mate!
Chris 
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Author: Peter Wood
Friday, 20 December 2002 - 05:47 pm | |
| Chris you scally! You watered the beer down again, didn't you?! |
