BS: England has a better class of murderer

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: meself
Date: 07 Aug 12 - 12:49 AM

Thanks for the correction, Rapparee.

As for Big Al - I like to feel as though I'm walking along the bottom of the sea too, and I'm not a funny bugger. My views should be taken most seriously.

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 06:49 PM

Join the military. They'll pay you to learn.

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 06:21 PM

You mean there are classes for murderers?.....I thought they had to work it out for themselves.

How does one enrol, and what are the tuition fees?

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 06:15 PM

TDQ wrote "On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts" in 1827. George Orwell wrote "Decline of the English Murder" in 1946. Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (née Miller) began the decline in 1920.

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 04:44 PM

That should read

His views shouldn't really be taken too seriously.

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 04:42 PM

TDQ always struck me as a funny bugger. I seem to remember he liked to feel as though he was walking along the bottom of the sea. His views should really be taken too seriously.

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 04:38 PM

Carving up prostitutes in back alleys were England's most famous murders. Some even thing it was a member of the Royal family! Classy!!

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: meself
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 04:30 PM

Wasn't Thomas DeQuincy bemoaning the 'Decline of the English Murder' 'way back in 18(mumble, mumble) ... ?

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 03:28 PM

Dead is dead.

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 03:14 PM

I dunno about a better class of murderer -- thallium was also used by Saddam Hussein to poison dissidents.

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: gnu
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 05:48 AM

Only in Britain? Pity.

Canuck joke.

Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 05:35 AM

Thank you, Big Al. I wasn't quite sure of the poison he'd used. 'Champagne of poisons'!! He obviously took great pride in his 'achievements'. How sinister.

Subject: BS: England has a better class of murderer
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 05:30 AM

Re-reading the gun nut thread, I saw that Liza has accused Graham Allan Young of killing people with arsenic. Actually, I believe he used Thalium - which he described as 'the champagne of poisons'.

Presumably he saw himself as a sort of Noel Coward of the homicidal maniac starmaker machine, 'Anyone for thalium, darlings....'