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Nina Thomas
Inspector
Username: Nina
Post Number: 161
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 12:16 am: |       |
Monty,
That was your article in the September Ripperologist 'Plaque Unveiled to the Elephant Man in Leicester' wasn't it? 
Your name threw me off.
Nina |
Monty
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Monty
Post Number: 1442
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 4:44 am: | |
Nina,
I have no idea what you are on about.
Monty
Fear. Fear attracts the fearful. The strong. The weak. The innocent. The corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally. |
Jennifer D. Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 1387
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 5:25 am: | |
Robert,
you like Streisand then?
Jenni |
Christopher T George
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 1191
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 8:52 am: | |
Hi Nina
We might have to chain Monty to the comfy chair in that back street in Leicester listening to Dan Leno while contemplating Merrick's plaque.
Chris 
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
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Monty
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Monty
Post Number: 1444
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 10:44 am: | |
Chris,
Just been past Lee st, Merricks birthplace and now an alley.
All taped off with Police tape.
Hope nothing serious.
Monty
Fear. Fear attracts the fearful. The strong. The weak. The innocent. The corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally. |
Christopher T George
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 1193
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 10:57 am: | |
Hi Monty
Thanks for that sidelight on the current situation today near John Merrick's birth site in Lee Street, Leicester. In this modern world, who knows what might have occurred. 
All my best
Chris
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
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Lindsey Millar
Detective Sergeant
Username: Lindsey
Post Number: 91
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 8:56 pm: | |
Robert,
No fair! That means the chances of me watching you in that particular scenario are about as slim as Pompey beating Southampton in the FA cup! And I have been so looking forward to some new entertainment (I'm out of movies, folks).
Monty,
Hope, as you say, that the police tape was not for anything serious..
Bestest,
Lyn |
Nina Thomas
Inspector
Username: Nina
Post Number: 167
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 12:24 am: | |
Chris,
You bring the comfy chair and I'll bring the chains (only because they are lighter to carry). 
Monty,
Any update on the police tape incident? I too hope it was not anything serious.
Nina |
Christopher T George
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 1204
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 3:10 am: | |
Hi Monty, Nina, and Lynn
I regularly monitor the news from my home city of Liverpool, and I have to say the day-to-day news has me heartily distressed and sickened. News today of a children's playground in the Dingle, close to where Ringo grew up, that had been renovated, opened one day and destroyed by vandals the next. See
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=14978405%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=opened%2don%2dthursday%2d%2ddestroyed%2don%2dfriday-name_page.html
I'm afraid that almost daily there are reports of shootings, bombings, and other ugly incidents. It is not the Liverpool I knew when I was growing up in the Fifties and Sixties. And Liverpool has been just named the Capital of Culture for Europe for 2008. . . 
All the best
Chris
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
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Phil Hill
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 1:05 pm: | |
I played Carr Gomm (one of the doctors) in a stage production of The Elephant Man six or seven years ago, and did quite a bit of background reading about Merrick.
As a long-standing student of the Ripper crimes even then, it was natural to ask oneself the question - "Well?"
But I concluded there was no possibility of poor Joseph Merrick as JtR. Given the degree of prejudice at the time, I am surprised more fingers weren't pointed at him though.
In my view, a non-starter as a theory.
Phil |
mvario
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Sunday, December 12, 2004 - 11:21 pm: | |
Top volume?
These go to 11 |
Monty
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Monty
Post Number: 1451
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 7:26 am: | |
Guys,
No news on why Lee st was taped off Im afraid. sorry.
Monty
Fear. Fear attracts the fearful. The strong. The weak. The innocent. The corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally. |
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