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Ripperologist magazine
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| | Posted on Friday, September 09, 2005 - 4:01 pm: | 
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RIPPEROLOGIST IN SEPTEMBER
A lawyer digs deep into the deaths of Myriam Angel,
Polly Nichols and the Elephant Man.
Be prepared, be a subscriber.
www.ripperologist.info |
Ripperologist magaine
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| | Posted on Monday, September 12, 2005 - 4:50 am: |
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RIPPEROLOGIST IN SEPTEMBER
The executioner who befriended one of the Ripper victims .
Be prepared, be a subscriber.
www.ripperologist.info |
Ripperologist magazine
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| | Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 5:03 pm: |
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RIPPEROLOGIST IN SEPTEMBER
The young man who found his vocation on the streets of Whitechapel .
Be prepared, be a subscriber.
www.ripperologist.info |
Ripperologist magazine
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| | Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 7:14 am: |
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YOU HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH JACK THE RIPPER
And with Stewart P Evans, Karyo Magellan, Daniel Olsson, Antonio Sironi, Jane Coram, Adam Wood, Paul Begg, Eduardo Zinna, Christopher George, Christopher-Michael DiGrazia, Wilf Gregg, Wynne E Baxter, Percy Lefroy Mapleton, Donald S Swanson, Madame Tussaud, Emma Smith, Myriam Angel, Peter the Painter, The Elephant Man, Winston Churchill, George V, Sir Melville Macnaghten, Mary Ann Nichols, Mary Jane Kelly, Alice McKenzie, Frances Coles, James Sadler, Elisabeth Gustafsdotter, Maria Wiesner, Olof Wilhelm Bergendahl, Annie Chapman, John Richardson, Dr George Bagster Phillips, Albert Cadosch, Stephen P Ryder, Andy Aliffe, Catherine Eddowes, Sir Edward Marshall Hall, Michael Davitt, Michael Ostrog, Francis J Tumblety, Prince Albert Victor, Michael Jackson, Dennis Rader, Michael Huie, Patricia Cornwell, William Desmond Taylor, Mary Miles Minter, Mabel Normand and many, many more.
Ripperologist No. 61.
Coming at you in September.
Be entertained. Be enlightened. Be thrilled.
Be a subscriber.
www.ripperologist.info
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Adam Went
Inspector
Username: Adamw
Post Number: 366
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 4:51 am: |
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Hi!
I received my issue of the Rip in the mail yesterday. As always, looks like it will be another very good issue!
Now, I must remember to re-subscribe in time for November's issue...!!
Cheers,
Adam. 
"...Since then the idea has taken full possession of me, and everything fits in and dovetails so well that I cannot help feeling that this (George Chapman) is the man we struggled so hard to capture fifteen years ago..."
- Inspector Frederick Abberline, March 1903 interview, Pall Mall Gazette .
Hmmm.....
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Monty
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Monty
Post Number: 1923
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 9:30 am: |
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Guys,
Thoroughly enjoying this one.
My appreciation to Adam Wood for a well research and interesting article. Great work. And the photo!! Who has been down the local modelling agency eh? Such chiselled looks….or so my Mum says.
As for the other meaty articles, well Guys Ive not read them yet but they do look tasty.
I would like to ask where the hell is Tom WesTcotts (heh-heh, I said WesTcott, heh-heh) review? I fully expected one of his jauntily near the knuckle cheeky reports but alas nothing. Makes one want to review the subscription…..then again. Speaking of which…
….thanks for the subscription chivvy along for Mr Bell but addressed to Monty! I must find out who signs the cheques. A personal letter from the Editor no less. How much does Paul Beggs autograph go for on E-Bay?
Cheers,
Monty…or is it?
Four candles.....you know, handles for forks ! - The Guv'nor
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Howard Brown
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Howard
Post Number: 1059
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 2:44 pm: |
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Ditto to Monty's appraisal of issue 61.
In particular,the life of Wynne Baxter, the main feature this month. Adam Wood deserves a lot of praise for the effort alone in putting together what is equivalent to a book well over 100 pages. Very informative piece on Baxter,not only "Father of The Coroners",but a respected authority on Milton and microscopy. A+ Adam !!! |
Thomas C. Wescott
Inspector
Username: Tom_wescott
Post Number: 435
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 9:30 pm: |
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Dudes,
I just got my issue yesterday and haven't had a chance to read most of it yet. I always read the editorial first, then the reviews and letters section, then make my way to the meat. I read Stewart's awesomely nostalgic piece and can't wait to dig into Adam's long piece on Baxter, who all Ripper researchers are indebted to. Then I'll finish the rest and post my thoughts. Looks like a really good issue from the contents section, though.
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott
P.S. I also received the new issue of Whitechapel Journal yesterday. Anyone else subscribing to that? Except Howard, of course. He's like me, he subscribes to all the journals.
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Sir Robert Anderson
Chief Inspector
Username: Sirrobert
Post Number: 551
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 9:56 pm: |
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"I also received the new issue of Whitechapel Journal yesterday. Anyone else subscribing to that? Except Howard, of course. He's like me, he subscribes to all the journals. '
Yup, I'm on board the WJ express...I even get Ripperana !
Sir Robert
'Tempus Omnia Revelat'
SirRobertAnderson@gmail.com
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Jennifer Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 2957
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 4:32 am: |
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ugh!!!
Tom reads his Rip the same way I do ie starting from the back.
Jenni
:-)
"You know I'm not gonna diss you on the Internet
Cause my momma taught me better than that."
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Thomas C. Wescott
Inspector
Username: Tom_wescott
Post Number: 436
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 8:59 pm: |
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Sir Robert,
My condolences on your subscription to Ripperana.
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott |
Thomas C. Wescott
Inspector
Username: Tom_wescott
Post Number: 437
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 7:03 pm: |
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REVIEW: RIPPEROLOGIST #61, Sept. 2005
Here we are again, entering the hallowed (?) halls of Messrs Begg, George, & Zinna, or the BeeGeeZ, as they’re known in some circles. For all those with no life who bother to read my half-baked opinions, I’d be curious to know what YOUR first issue of Ripperologist was. Did you start reading way back in the Paul Daniel days? As for me, I joined the mag when Paul Begg did, so to speak. My first issue (sent to me FOR FREE by then Ripper Notes editor, Chris George) was issue #28, the first one with Paul Begg as editor. It’s hard for me to believe, but that was more than 5 years ago. What reminded me of this was the inside back cover of the current issue. It reprints the blurry ‘Lodger’ cover. Unfortunately, this bit of nostalgia was also blurred by the ‘Important Information’ that the Rip is raising its cover prices. I just renewed my subscription and it cost a whopping $67.12!!! Damn. You’d think Eddleston or McFarland was publishing the mag or something. But I’m happy to say this is a very good issue. And at more than ten bucks per issue, it’d better damn well stay this good! Let’s take a look…
COVER: In what’s becoming a more and more typical Rip cover, we have a blow up of Coroner Baxter’s mug outlined by contemporary illustrations of him. Hopefully we’ll see a little more variation in the cover art in the next year. Not a bad cover, mind you (it’s better than the recent Sir John one!), just not particularly inspired. I KNOW Adam can do better. Remember the awesome cover with the photo of Liz Stride’s house? That’s one of my favorites. The back cover has a beautiful color photo of Baxter’s grave.
EDITORIAL: Remember a couple issues ago how the editorial was by Chris George and had a photo of him and the title had something to do with elephants and we all had a chuckle? Following suit, there’s a photo of Eduardo Zinna and the editorial is titled ‘The Way of the Wolf’. Coinkydink? Me thinks not. Since last issue was about Dracula, Zinna now juxtaposes the Ripper crimes with werewolves, or Little Red Riding Hood, to be more exact. I guess next issue it’ll be Frankenstein. And you know what? That wouldn’t be a bad idea. One Ripper book that has yet to be written is one where the son of Baron Frankenstein has relocated to London to continue the work of his father, and he hires a freak to go around and cut up live specimens to create his female monster. You could even have the Baron as the Torso killer, working almost simultaneously with the Ripper to get limbs! Pretty cool, eh? Write it and I’ll sue your azz. It’s mine!
TRIAL OF JTR AD: Full page ad for McPherson’s book, Trial of JTR that did not come out well AT ALL. On top of that, it offers a competition to win a copy of the book and says ‘Can’t wait until November to get a copy?’ Who has to wait? I received my weeks ago!!!
INQUEST, LONDON By Adam Wood: Although appearing first, this is clearly the centerpiece of the issue. Profusely illustrated with photos of Wynne Baxter and kin (and, for some inexplicable reason, a picture of the X-Files’ Agent Mulder appearing over Adam’s name) this article is a long overdue look at the life and career of one of the most important people to Ripper researchers. In a field sadly lacking in resources, we’d be in dire straits had someone other than Baxter overseen the inquests of so many of the Ripper’s victims. Just look at the debacle that was the Kelly inquest! What strikes me as almost unbelievable about him, from reading Adam’s article, is that he seems to have been chairman, found, boardmember, treasurer, or otherwise for about 50 organizations simultaneously!!! For those who think Adam Wood is only good for covers, think again. This is a superb article, and although it’s by far the longest in the issue, isn’t nearly long enough and left me wanting more. It’s well-written, well illustrated, and well researched. Kudos to Adam! It’s nice to see his work inside the magazine as well as outside, and hopefully we’ll be seeing more such offerings from him in the future. A Baxter follow-up would be great!
CUTTHROAT By Karyo Magellan: Having a copy of Magellan’s book, ‘By ear and eyes’, as I do, I am already rather familiar with his indepth research into the wounds of the victims. Nevertheless, this article is a wonderful piece of condensed research that, hopefully, will turn others onto his book. Should more Ripperologists take the leap and get a copy, it will no doubt turn into one of the most controversial Ripper books in years, not to mention one of the most important. Having said that, I believe Magellan’s own impeccable study on the throat wounds of the various Whitechapel murder victims hinders, instead of helps, his argument that Frances Coles and Alice McKenzie were killed by the same hand as Nichols/Chapman/Stride/Eddowes. But I suppose such things are up to the individual reader.
RIPPER REMINISCENCES By Stewart Evans: Check out the stache chillin’ on Stewart’s beak in this photo! For a second I thought it was Burt Reynolds, but the glasses gave him away. This was the first article of the issue I read because a) it was by Stewart, b) it’s short, and c) it was nostalgic. This was a very cool, lighthearted, and interesting look into the past of one of Ripperology’s most important contributors. I’m sure many were surprised to find that Stewart didn’t really begin his true crime collecting until well into the 80’s! I remember back to how I first got started on the Ripper’s trail, and it’s always nice to read how others did. Maybe we should start a thread about this and everyone can tell their stories. Whaddaya think?
THE EXECUTIONER, THE MUSICIAN, HIS WIFE AND HER FRIEND By Daniel Olsson: Although the title sounds like it might be a review of an artsy porno flick, it’s actual the latest research into the early life of Liz Stride by young Daniel, whose photo does him no justice. He looks really confused, like he just got done reading Ripperana or something and needs a drink. But photo aside, I doubt there’s anyone who doesn’t enjoy reading Daniel’s original and incisive research into Liz Stride. If only we had 4 more like him, one for each canonical victim. He seems to contribute exclusively to Ripperologist, and is one of the contributors that continue to make Rip a must read. Another fine job here.
A QUESTION OF TIMING By Antonio Sironi (illustrated by Jane Coram): For those who don’t know Antonio, he’s from Italy, and although he’s a relative newcomer to the case, this is his second published article (the first was in Ripper Notes). Despite his youth and good looks he’s got a helluva brain on him. Jane Coram is best known, I believe, for her wonderful Ripper Notes covers, and her work here is just as good. The purpose of the article is to establish the time at which Annie Chapman most likely met her end. Many people reading this might have been thinking, ‘didn’t Ripper Notes just recently run a similar article by Wolf Vanderlinden?’ The answer is yes. However, I can personally attest that Antonio has been researching and working on this piece for quite some time, and well before Wolf’s article appeared in print. And the fact that a similar article was recently published does not depreciate the value of Antonio’s contribution. In my opinion, it makes it more important. The fact that two researchers, unknown to each other, tackled the same subject at the same time, using the same resources, and reached very similar conclusions, should be enough to make us all reconsider what we think we know to be fact: That Chapman was killed at dawn. I’m not saying I’m totally sold here, but I think future authors should give due consideration to the conclusions reached by Messrs Vanderlinden and Sironi before weighing in their verdict, and it’s to Ripperologist’s credit that they didn’t pass on publishing this article just because their competition had already put out a similar piece. In fact, I think the idea of having to disparate researchers follow the same trail and compare conclusions after the fact makes for an exciting read and could make for a good feature for either or both Ripper Notes and Ripperologist, should the hate campaign between them ever end. Great job by Antonio here, and some valuable and rarely considered insights into the reliability of witness evidence.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PLAITED HAIR (In Brief): A jumping good real life potboiler! The Casebook’s own Stephen Ryder received some items emanating from the Mitre Pub in Whitechapel Road. Among these items are a lock of hair claimed to have come from Catherine Eddowes! Are these items legitimate? Andy Aliffe and others find out. One of the better In Brief’s I’ve read.
THE FENIAN AND THE CONFIDENCE MAN (In Brief): Okay, so we know Michael Ostrog wasn’t the Ripper. What we DON’T know is why anyone ever thought he was (or if they really did at that). Nevertheless, he’s an important part of Ripper lore, and this In Brief takes a look at a newly discovered (by Robert Charles Linford) memoir from a man who knew Ostrog in prison! Great find by Linford and yet another confirmation that there’s much more stuff ‘out there’ waiting to be dug up.
I BEG TO REPORT: Chris Scott is sick. I didn’t know that and was distressed to read it. As a result, there was no Press Trawl in this issue. I’m sure I speak for all Rip readers when I say we look forward to Chris’ full recover and the return of Press Trawl in the next issue. Next is the famed ‘Tumblety watch’ that recently went for bid on eBay. We were all making cynical jokes about it, but as it turns out, it’s likely to be legitimate. Whodathunkit? The winning bidder at this time is unknown. Much more news and notes follow.
PATRICIA CORNWELL AND DEAD HORSES: Yet another title that could be a porno flick, though one I’d be happy to miss. This covers Cornwells recent press report that proves she’s as obsessed as we all suspected. She still refuses to open her mind to reason and fact and alludes to evidence she does not possess. Instead of her having to prove that Sickert was in London for the Ripper crimes, she expects others to prove he was not! Small matter this has already been done. Back in the old days, the Ripper cranks were nobody’s wanting to ride the Ripper wave for attention. Now in the 21st Century the biggest crank is an already established author doing nothing but tarnishing her own reputation (well, and receiving some rather large checks along the way). How strange is that?
OBITUARIES: Always a downer, this time we mourn Juan-Jacobo Bajarlia, the originator of the Alonso Maduro theory, and Ripper centenary author, John Morrison (Jimmy Kelly’s Year of Ripper murders 1888) whose work preceeded and influenced the late Jim Tully’s classic ‘The Secret of Prisoner 1167’. They will be missed.
LETTERS AND COMMENTS: The first letters section in a long time not to have excerpts from my scribblings. I musta pissed SOMEBODY off. Hmmmm? Otherwise, it’s more of the same snippets from Casebook posts. Be careful when posting to this thread – you might find your words in the next issue!
ON THE CRIMEBEAT By Wilf Gregg: More books on murder and mayhem reviewed by Wilf. Poor little disenchanted fella. He really should read some more uplifting material. No wonder he looks so down all the time.
REVIEWS: This is the only part of the issue I have (pun intended) issues with. First let me say that I’ve been taken to task, and rightfully so, in the past for always blaming Paul Begg for the strange stuff that seems to come out of the review section. The fact is, Rip has three reviewers, and they rarely if ever name the reviewer of a book or magazine. So, to be fair to Paul, I’ll blame Eduardo Zinna for a while. I have no idea if Eduardo even wrote any of the reviews, but I’m gonna blame him anyway. First up we have Zinna’s take on Euan McPherson’s ‘The Trial of Jack the Ripper’. Now, how can a guy have 3 vowels in his first name when there’s only four letters? That’s overkill, don’t ya think? But back to the review. Zinna praises the book for it’s research into the life and times of Ripper suspect William Bury. And rightfully so. No other publication has ever come close to McPherson’s for information and original research. It’s also an amazingly well-written, brisk read, and an absolute must for any serious Ripperphile. Zinna also points out the amusing typo in Richard Whittington-Egan’s foreword where he refers to Ripperana as ‘Rippermania’ (an oversight I feel might have been the fault of the publisher or typesetter and not W-E). Thankfully, Nick Warren doesn’t actually read the books he reviews, so he’s likely to miss that. Anyway, my problem with this review is that it stops mid-way through the book and doesn’t even touch upon the second half, which deals with the Ripper murders. To be honest, McPherson’s coverage of the murders is the worst I’ve seen in a book on the case in 30 years. No joke. It’s horrible. He put a ton of effort into his Bury research but zilch into his Ripper work. That this should be overlooked in a review in a Ripper periodical is unthinkable, and causes those cynical minds among us to think it might have something to do with the publisher taking out a full page ad in this issue…or maybe McPherson has a contribution coming up in the next issue? Moving on towards their review of the last Ripperana, I laughed at Zinna’s comparison of the mag as it is today to the TV show ‘Sliders’. Ripperana really does exist in a slightly bent alternate universe. Overall, I consider the review of Ripperana here to be too favorable, but then I would. As for Ripper Notes, Dan Norder got torn a new hole. Zinna decides, for some reason, that Ripper Notes is a magazine catering to newcomers. But what constitutes a newcomer isn’t revealed. To Paul Begg, I’m a newcomer. To Whittington-Egan, Begg’s a newcomer. To Wilf Gregg, Melville Macnaughten’s a newcomer. The review drags on about the negatives in RN’s last issue, such as the errors found in Spallek’s article, and accuses Wolf Vanderlinden of publishing nothing new in his Tumblety piece, though his sources were from books not likely to be found on the shelves of 95% of those studying the case. I must be a total newbie because the Dunham revelations were new to me. The one point about the review that I agree with 100% was that my Thomas Jones article was not my best work. Can’t deny that. It takes Norder to task for not being a better editor and catching these mistakes, whereby Ripperologist recently published an article that had those coins once again by Chapman’s side. I think this is a point both mags need to address. All in all, this is one of the hardest reviews RN has ever received, and ironically, for one of its all-around best issues! To be fair, Rip isn’t the only magazine that finds it hard to remain subjective when reviewing the competition. All are guilty. Maybe they should just not mention each other any more. And by the way, by my count, Norder has now edited 5 issues of RN, not 4. How’s that for fact-checking!
THE LAST WORD By Christopher Michael-Digrazia: CM must be rich, cuz he starts off by bragging that he’s lounging idly on a tobacco plantation in Honduras, smoking cigars, drinking rum, and no doubt enjoying my first edition copy of Jean Overton-Fuller’s book. He then follows last issue’s Fatty Arbunkle story with another Hollywood mystery: the murder of William Desmond Taylor. A very intriguing tale, indeed, and one I may have to do further reading on.
All in all, this was a wonderful issue of Ripperologist, though one wonders why they didn’t put out this issue in July and save the ‘Dracula’ issue for it’s Sept/Oct Halloween edition. I suppose the answer to that was the conference. Hopefully, we won’t have to start holding conferences every two months to keep getting great issues out of the Rip bunch. Clearly they’ve got more than cigars and Dan Norder voodoo dolls up their sleeves. I must say I’ve been rather impressed with their overall quality these past number of months, which would explain why my reviews have been less funny than they used to be…Begg and company aren’t giving me any material to work with! Not to worry, eventually Rob Hills will publish something else or Smilin’ Joe Chetcuti will misinterpret another newspaper blurb, and I’ll be rolling again. Until then, I urge all non-Rip readers to head over to www.ripperologist.info and subscribe now while the urge is at its peak. 6 issues a year, baby. And by the way, the editors might want to update their site. They’re now actually doing themselves an injustice. Their issues recently have been well over 50 pages, if I’m not mistaken, and website states their issues usually boast 48 pages.
Here’s to November and the next issue! Until then, I’m out like Wynne Baxter at the inquest into the death of Mary Kelly…
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 3305
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 4:57 pm: |
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Cover art, table of contents and sample article (Adam Wood's "Inquest London," a biography of the life and work of Wynne Baxter) are now available online at:
http://casebook.org/ripper_media/book_reviews/periodicals/ripperologist.2005-09.html
Stephen P. Ryder, Exec. Editor
Casebook: Jack the Ripper
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Thomas C. Wescott
Inspector
Username: Tom_wescott
Post Number: 438
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 9:44 pm: |
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CORRECTION!!!! In my review, which no one seems to care about this time around, I put that Rip had raised it's cover price. This is totally untrue and a result of my inability to make sense of a single paragraph of place English. The blurb I was referring to actually states only that British peeps will now have to pay postage for their issues, which is totally cool with me. I apologize to the editors for putting a bad rumor (rumour for Brits) out like that, but they can rest well in the knowledge that...apparently...no one has read it.
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 5175
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 6:30 am: |
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I vote we write a review of Tom's review. 
Robert |
Caroline Anne Morris
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Caz
Post Number: 2235
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:05 am: |
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Who's we?
Who's Tom?
What review?
Love,
Er, I've forgotten |
Monty
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Monty
Post Number: 1949
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:35 am: |
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Rob,
My God, the critic wants feedback on his own critique.
Monty
Four candles.....you know, handles for forks ! - The Guv'nor
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Jennifer Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 2997
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 3:32 pm: |
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My feedback of Tom's review would go like this,
no wait, I'll tell you after Octobers RN review goes up!! LOL
Jenni
"it is hard not to feel a twinge of guilt. Guilt for the fact that this man's name would always be coupled with something other than the great works of book-collecting and abdominal operations with which he is now associated."
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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2724
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 5:21 pm: |
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My review of Tom's review would go like this:
'Tom, you just became a Ripposaur.' |
Ally
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Ally
Post Number: 1084
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 5:48 pm: |
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Hi there Tom,
The reason that no one commented on your review this time around is simple. It sucked.
Not at all acerbic, no wit, no humor. Just a straight on mildly fawning review.
Oh well you can't be entertaining all the time I suppose.
Cheers,
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Monty
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Monty
Post Number: 1956
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 11:50 am: |
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Tom,
Welcome to our world.
Monty
PS Ally you sure are pur-tee.
It begins.....
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Howard Brown
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Howard
Post Number: 1086
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 8:41 pm: |
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Ally....If that was you belting out "Don't How Brown Make My Brown Eyes Blue?"...then you are a very pretty lady...
...but still getting wedged. |
Ally
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Ally
Post Number: 1087
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 8:48 pm: |
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Monty,
:-P
How,
I don't sing. Ever. I drink. Suzi, Bob, Lindsay and Alan sing and make the rest of us sound like pathetic squawking chickens.
There is no singing at American conferences, a sad oversight I think.
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Thomas C. Wescott
Inspector
Username: Tom_wescott
Post Number: 439
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 9:24 pm: |
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Ally,
Don't blame me for my crappy review, blame Ripperologist. They gotta give me something to work with. I liked my 'to Wilf Gregg Melville Mcnaughten's a newbie' comment, though. That one made me chuckle. If you want entertaining I could review Ripperana, but then I'd get banned from here for breaking every TOS rule. If it's any consolation, my review, as favorable as it was, still garnered an e-mail from Paul Begg to say I'd totally misrepresented their review on Ripper Notes. I guess I'll leave that to you guys to decide for yourself. I think I was pretty on target there though. Otherwise, I thought it was a very solid issue and wanted to convey that in my review. Perhaps you should publish in there, then I could probably build a whole comedy routine around it.
Monty,
Ripposaur? Great, I'm already outdated. Does that mean I can start doing TV Ripper spots?
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott
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Monty
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Monty
Post Number: 1958
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 28, 2005 - 4:34 am: |
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Tom, Ally,
Tom,
I plea not guilty to the Rippersaur comment. I have the above post from AP as evidence.
Ive always seen you as more mammalian, missing link perhaps. 
Ally,
You sure do sing pur-tee too.
Monty
It begins.....
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