A.P. Wolf

[Robert]

Nats, it's a line from an Aussie sketch show. It goes something like :

"The Britiah say..." (lines from Shakespeare quoted)
"The Americans say..." (lines from Whitman or some such)
"The Australians say : only poofs write poetry."

Nice and self-deprecatory.

[Natalie Severn]

........ are you feeling a bit silly then Robert?

[Robert]

Yes Nats, it's a treasured possession.

I won't be following AP to Australia, for you know what the Aussies say : "Only poofs write poetry."

[Robert]

Absolutely, AP.

[Natalie Severn]

Returning to the cause of Dr Bond"s suicide,was there an orbituary of any kind?

[Natalie Severn]

I remember -it was only a few years ago that Robert was awarded this gem as a prize for his poetry-lucky so and so!

[Cap'n Jack]

So that's where it is, Robert, thank you for reminding me.
A better home I could not imagine.
I've just been promised retirement to Australia in two years time, so perhaps then me and you will get that revised edition out?

[Robert]

How come people are deleting their own messages? It seems to happen quite often.

[Sam Flynn]

P*ss off pooh face!

'Tis true, Nats - these signs were placed in the gents' toilet cubicles at work, with a view to stopping the more piggish representatives of my sex from voiding their nostrils on the tiles whilst having a gipsy's.

[Natalie Severn]

I once had a copy of a sign. It said "Please refrain from disposing nasal waste on the lavatory wall".

P*ss off pooh face!

[Natalie Severn]

AP, you're forgetting that I too have a very nice copy - and it is signed.

Anyway I"ve got a signed copy of "Who was Jack the Ripper" ---so there!

[Sam Flynn]

I once had a copy of a sign. It said "Please refrain from disposing nasal waste on the lavatory wall".

[Robert]

AP, you're forgetting that I too have a very nice copy - and it is signed.

[The Grave Maurice]

What amuses me about the 'Myth' is that it doesn't appear to exist. I don't have a copy. I don't know anybody who does.

I have a very nice copy. Of course it isn't signed....(hint, hint).

[Natalie Severn]

Yes,AP, and whether it is a simple coincidence or whether there may be a connective thread between the two, it is thought provoking. I would suggest that any of those who witnessed the Ripper"s carnage of Mary Kelly and were of fragile mental health, could have been left with seriously unsettling images of the crime and especially had they been in any way lent on over a "cover up" of some kind and that such a secret could have had a lasting deleterious effect on their mental heath.It would be useful to know a bit more about Dr Bond"s suicide and whether he had ever been friendly with Chief Supt Cutbush.