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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2936
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 2:35 pm: |       |
Thought it might be worth putting together a thread where people can post any modern media blurbs they might come across which reference Jack the Ripper. I seem to come across at least one or two a week (several of which are quite amusing).
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Here's one to start off the thread:
"Let's look this thing in the eye once and for all. To applaud the US Army's capture of Saddam Hussein, and therefore in retrospect justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq, is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disemboweling the Boston Strangler. And that after a quarter-century partnership in which the Ripping and Strangling was a joint enterprise. It's an in-house quarrel. They're business partners who fell out over a dirty deal. Jack's the CEO."
- "The New American Century." Arundhati Roy, The Nation. January 22, 2004.
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Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2937
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 2:41 pm: | |
In an article about the doomed Mars lander, Beagle 2....
"Dr. Colin Pillinger, the chief scientist and head promoter of Beagle 2, has a double inheritance of eccentricity. First he is from Britain, the world capital of eccentric behavior. Where else can one find a society promoting the proposition that the historic city of Jerusalem was really Edinburgh? Where else could people publish a scholarly journal devoted to identifying Jack the Ripper?"
- "Beagle 2: A Fortunate Failure". Jeffrey F. Bell. Space Daily. Jan 13, 2004.
I believe the answer - or really, answers - to the question would be New York City (Whitechapel Journal), Bradford Massachusetts (Ripper Notes), and New South Wales, Australia (Ripperoo)... That's where else! 
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Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2938
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 2:46 pm: | |
"The faculty at Bard College, a liberal arts school at Annandale, NY, includes a scholar who glories in the title Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies. Anyone aware that Hiss was a Washington bureaucrat who spied for the Soviet Union will consider this as sensible as a John Dillinger Chair in Business Ethics or a Jack the Ripper Chair in Criminology."
Professors for Alger Hiss
By Robert Fulford
National Post | January 7, 2004
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2967
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 2:27 pm: | |
"And how can you not cheer a great golf shot? Jack the Ripper probably would've received a standing ovation if, with two foes within birdie range, he knocked a 100-foot bunker shot to within four inches."
TOMPKINS: The character without it stirs passions
February 19, 2004
The Town Talk (newspaper)
http://www.thetowntalk.com/html/77F8E023-1C0B-42E7-997E-61D2AA3B56E8.shtml
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2968
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 2:29 pm: | |
"Replacing Saddam Hussein with Ahmad Chalabi, McGovern charged, "would be comparable to replacing Jack the Ripper with Al Capone.""
George McGovern
American Presidential Candidate, 1972
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/18/111833.shtml
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2969
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 2:31 pm: | |
"Is this guy Jack the Ripper or is he not?" asked Gary Solis, a former Marine Corps judge advocate who is an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University. "You have to appreciate that at the outset they thought they were onto something very serious, but they don't seem to be able to accept the evidence that in fact this was just a garden-variety screw-up."
In reference to James Yee, a Muslim chaplain in the US Army charged with sharing secrets with Al Qaida.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.chaplain17feb17,0,5422538.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2970
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 2:33 pm: | |
"The ferocity and boldness of our criminals make Jack the Ripper appear sissy in comparison. Time to reclaim respect for human life!"
Ambrose Murunga, Daily Nation
In reference to a pandemic of murder in Kenya.
February 16 2004
http://allafrica.com/stories/200402160439.html
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2971
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 2:35 pm: | |
"Latent print taking hasn't changed for 110 years," he said. "What we've been doing is the same thing Sir Francis (Galton) used to search for Jack the Ripper."
Detective James Brack
Ottawa County Sheriff's Department
From: "New twists on old techniques: Evidence-gathering taking leaps forward"
The Holland Sentinel
February 15 2004
(Galton fingerprinting Jack the Ripper?? You don't say!)
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2972
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 2:37 pm: | |
"It is said: If 13 people sit down to dinner together, all will die within the year. The Turks so disliked the number 13 that it was practically expunged from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894). Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue. Many buildings don't have a 13th floor. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names)."
Why Friday the 13th Is Unlucky
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th_2.htm
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2988
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 9:11 am: | |
"I think he'll [Ralph Nader, perennial U.S. third-party presidential candidate] get next to nothing" in Oregon, Hermach said. "I fear the cowardly lemmings and cowardly sheep will vote for John Kerry or John Edwards -- or Jack the Ripper, if he were to get the Democratic nomination."
Tim Hermach, Oregon environmentalist, on whether or not he will be supporting Ralph Nader's third consecutive run for the U.S. presidency.
The Oregonian - 24 Feb 2004
"Oregon likely won't be Nader country in 2004"
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1077627670208200.xml
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2989
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 9:12 am: | |
"As someone pointed out not too long ago, [Presidential candidate John] Kerry is, at best, the Boston Strangler battling Jack the Ripper for the country's gullet."
Richard Oxman
25 February 2004
"ABBKE and the Parenti Proviso"
http://www.pressaction.com/pablog/archives/001329.html
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Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 3008
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 9:27 am: | |
"The closer you get, the scarier [Martha Stewart] becomes: those leather gloves are decidedly more Jack the Ripper-like than welcoming homebody, and then we arrive at the Birkin. Beneath the seeming normality there is something both threatening and very, very high maintenance."
"Is the verdict in the bag?"
Hadley Freeman, deputy fashion editor, on the eventual verdict in the Martha Stewart securities trial.
Wednesday March 3, 2004
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1160869,00.html
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
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Monty
Chief Inspector
Username: Monty
Post Number: 1000
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 11:44 am: | |
Folks,
Im currently reading a cricket book about the infamous 1932-33 tour undertaken by England of Austrailia by author David Frith.
For those that do not know, the event caused much bitterness between the two nations. This was mainly down to Englands tactic of bowling short in line with the batsmans body rather than at the stumps. This was mainly inorder to combat the Golden Boy of the game Don Bradman.
The England captain who adopted these tactics was Douglas Jardine, of whom its was stated by New South Wales Batsman and future Cricket commentator.....
..."Jardine is the most notorious Englishman since Jack the Ripper".
....and they say we whinged !!!
Monty
Our little group has always been and always will until the end... |
Caroline Anne Morris
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Caz
Post Number: 1009
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 8:00 am: | |
Hi Monty,
If the 'bodyline' tactic wasn't actually against the rules at the time, was it just a case of sour grapes when Jardine adapted his game to combat the Bradman problem?
Do you happen to know if the rules were then changed to combat Jardine's innovat-itit-ive initiat-itit-ive?
Howzat! 
Love,
Caz, just trying to bowl Monty over
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Monty
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Monty
Post Number: 1020
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 11:53 am: | |
Caz,
Yeah Rule 48......something or other.
You cannot have more than 2 fielders behind the batsman on the leg side.
This rule was indeed brought after the tour inorder to make the tactic of Bodyline nigh on impossible. But, as Im sure you know, you can still employ a form of leg trap (which, basically what Bodyline was...just with more catchers) today. As long as your forward short leg is just infront of the batsman before the ball is bowled.
The theory was used many years before Jardine picked up on it. As Pardoe can testify (cos Im sure he was around back then) Carr of Notts made use of Larwood and Voce in the same way the season prior to the tour. Just that Jardine used 4 stock bowlers instead of the 2 (with Verity holding the batsmen down) and the actual tactic was used sparingly. A sort of shock tactic.
Interestingly enough....shall I stop now ???
Monty...who does mind being bowled over by Caz.
Our little group has always been and always will until the end... |
Caroline Anne Morris
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Caz
Post Number: 1013
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 1:07 pm: | |
Hi Monty,
Thanks for that. I did find it interesting.
And have no fear - I don't for one second imagine I could actually succeed in bowling you over. I don't wear the white trousers.
Love,
Caz
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Monty
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Monty
Post Number: 1030
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 10:58 am: | |
Caz,
Of course I meant square leg...not forward short leg....but you knew that right ?
Monty
Our little group has always been and always will until the end... |
Paul Jackson
Inspector
Username: Paulj
Post Number: 164
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 8:10 pm: | |
Hey Guys,
Ive got a good one...
"JAWS" (1975), Richard Dreyfuss (Matt Hooper)
Speaking to the Coroner and the Chief regarding a shart attack victim that was shreaded to bits.
"This was no boating accident. It wasn't any propeller, it wasn't a coral reef and it wasn't Jack the Ripper. IT was a Shark."
I like that one, hope ya'll do too.
Paul
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