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06 Aug 12 - 05:30 AM (#3386767) Subject: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: Big Al Whittle 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....' |
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06 Aug 12 - 05:35 AM (#3386768) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: GUEST,Eliza 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. |
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06 Aug 12 - 05:48 AM (#3386771) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: gnu Only in Britain? Pity. Canuck joke. |
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06 Aug 12 - 03:14 PM (#3386815) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: Rapparee I dunno about a better class of murderer -- thallium was also used by Saddam Hussein to poison dissidents. |
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06 Aug 12 - 03:28 PM (#3386830) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: Jack the Sailor Dead is dead. |
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06 Aug 12 - 04:30 PM (#3386866) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: meself Wasn't Thomas DeQuincy bemoaning the 'Decline of the English Murder' 'way back in 18(mumble, mumble) ... ? |
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06 Aug 12 - 04:38 PM (#3386871) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: Jack the Sailor Carving up prostitutes in back alleys were England's most famous murders. Some even thing it was a member of the Royal family! Classy!! |
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06 Aug 12 - 04:42 PM (#3386872) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: Big Al Whittle 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. |
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06 Aug 12 - 04:44 PM (#3386873) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: Big Al Whittle That should read His views shouldn't really be taken too seriously. |
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06 Aug 12 - 06:15 PM (#3386916) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: Rapparee 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. |
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06 Aug 12 - 06:21 PM (#3386923) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: Don(Wyziwyg)T 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. |
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06 Aug 12 - 06:49 PM (#3386932) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: Jack the Sailor Join the military. They'll pay you to learn. |
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07 Aug 12 - 12:49 AM (#3387019) Subject: RE: BS: England has a better class of murderer From: meself 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. |