American Jack the Ripper - True Crime Conference, Baltimore, April 7-8, 2018

[ChrisGeorge]

The music at the end of this TIAA Investments commercial reminds me of a hit "toon" from 1962. The Man from Eagleville might be old enough to remember it but because he won loot before he can't answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im79ArrQAzs

The only one it reminds me of was 1961, re-released a few years later.

If you were thinking Cowboys and Indians, I agree.

I thought the melody in the TIAA commercial reminded me of TELSTAR by the Tornadoes (1962) but I was mistaken. Simon Wood over at JtR Forums has persuaded me that the melody is reminiscent of APACHE by the Shadows (1960) so all you guys were right and I was wrong.

Here's APACHE --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIs1k8yuPU

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi GUT

Looks like I owe you swag -- you indicated APACHE here before anyone else. Congratulations, cobber! Send me your snail mail address by PM if you would and I will get something off to you.

Cheers

Chris

[GUT]

Nah mate give it to one of the ones tha5 named it.

[ChrisGeorge]

Nah mate give it to one of the ones tha5 named it.

Thanks. Looks like Simon Wood then has won the loot over at JtR Forums because he expressly stated APACHE!

[ChrisGeorge]

This trivia question has still to be answered. Previous winners of RipperCon swag cannot win again. Give me the correct answer and the loot is yours. The best of British luck!

Conspiracists! Here are the magazines for you! You don't think that William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, wrote the plays.... well here's the proof that Christopher Marlowe did the deed. He must have been okay if his name was Chris, right? The magazines are yours if you are the first to tell me how Kit Marlowe died. As before, previous winners of RipperCon 2018 swag cannot win again.

[ChrisGeorge]

Whoopee! Our RipperCon 2018 Trivia Contest Swagerama continues!



So here's another one for you all --

What did the Elephant Man and the late British Playwright Joe Orton have in common. (The story of Orton's short life and brutal murder are told in "Prick Up Your Ears" starring Golden Globe Winner Gary Oldman.) The first to give me the correct answer wins a copy of this 256-page book! Good luck.



Note: Previous winners of RipperCon 2018 loot cannot win again.

Come to RipperCon in Baltimore in April. Don't miss out on two days of talks and two days of tours, Friday, April 6 through Monday, April 9. Complete details at www.RipperCon.com. This is the only North American #JacktheRipper-#True Crime conference in the 130th Anniversary Year of the Whitechapel Murders.

Not also our upcoming very special Valentine's Day "To Die For" Evening at the Duchess of Windsor Museum, 206 E. Biddle Street, Baltimore, Saturday, February 17, 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm, featuring Mike Hawley talking Dr. Tumblety and signing copies of his books!

[ChrisGeorge]

Again, if you missed it --

Whoopee! Our RipperCon 2018 Trivia Contest Swagerama continues!



So here's another one for you all --

What did the Elephant Man and the late British Playwright Joe Orton have in common. (The story of Orton's short life and brutal murder are told in "Prick Up Your Ears" starring Golden Globe Winner Gary Oldman.) The first to give me the correct answer wins a copy of this 256-page book! Good luck.



Note: Previous winners of RipperCon 2018 loot cannot win again.

Come to RipperCon in Baltimore in April. Don't miss out on two days of talks and two days of tours, Friday, April 6 through Monday, April 9. Complete details at www.RipperCon.com. This is the only North American #JacktheRipper-#True Crime conference in the 130th Anniversary Year of the Whitechapel Murders.

Not also our upcoming very special Valentine's Day "To Die For" Evening at the Duchess of Windsor Museum, 206 E. Biddle Street, Baltimore, Saturday, February 17, 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm, featuring Mike Hawley talking Dr. Tumblety and signing copies of his books!

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi everyone

The answer to the last question, the link between playwright Joe Orton and the Elephant Man, is that they were both born in Leicester, and I have someone with the correct answer elsewhere!

Just over two weeks left to sign up for RipperCon 2018 #JacktheRipper - #TrueCrime conference coming up in Baltimore, April 7-8 at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)! Check out the details at www.RipperCon.com -- deadline for registration is Wednesday, February 14 (RipperCon is for lovers!).

Meanwhile the RipperCon Swagerama giveaway continues.

"Tin Men" was a hit comedy movie set right here in #Baltimore and directed by an accomplished local director, Barry Levinson. The flick stars Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito and Barbara Hershey. The "Tin Men" of the title -- the characters played by Dreyfuss and DeVito -- are salesmen. But what precisely do they sell?

The first to answer correctly wins a copy of the VCR tape of "Tin Men." Only persons who still have VCR's can answer and you are not allowed to win if you have "rippered us off" for RipperCon swag before. Good luck!!!!

Cheers

Chris

[GUT]

You really do need to make these harder Chris.

VCR, now there’s a blast from the past.

[ChrisGeorge]

You really do need to make these harder Chris.

VCR, now there’s a blast from the past.

Answer the question then, mate. I think you qualify, don't you? As I recall, you haven't won swag from RipperCon, isn't that right? Or maybe you don't have a VCR or any 78 rpm discs....

[GUT]

I already won, I donated it back as a gift for someone at Rippercon as postage would be crazy. Be even worse on a VCR to Aus I suspect. But yep got some 78s just currently nothing to play them on.

[Mayerling]

I have been away awhile Chris, so I only looked through this fascinating thread on your next Baltimore Conference.

1) Kit Marlowe was supposedly killed in a brawl with several men after eating and drinking at a tavern. His killer, one Ingram Friser or Frizer or Frazer, supposedly stabbed him to death by a knife thrust into his skull through his eye. Of course, if he did not die in this brawl in 1594 (the last major British dramatist to die - supposedly in his case - by violence until Joe Orton in the 1960s) then Kit, under the false name of "Will Shakespeare" may have died in April 1616. However, as there were serious allegations spreading about Kit in 1594 regarding atheistic beliefs (then unlawful), the "brawl" either was staged to allow him to vanish while his place was taken by some unfortunate substitute, or it was more of a political assassination by agents (such as Frizer) of Sir Francis Walsingham (Marlowe's protector and friend - who might be compromised by the connection to Marlowe).

2) The main characters in "Tin Men" were aluminum siding salesmen.

Jeff

[ChrisGeorge]

I have been away awhile Chris, so I only looked through this fascinating thread on your next Baltimore Conference.

1) Kit Marlowe was supposedly killed in a brawl with several men after eating and drinking at a tavern. His killer, one Ingram Friser or Frizer or Frazer, supposedly stabbed him to death by a knife thrust into his skull through his eye. Of course, if he did not die in this brawl in 1594 (the last major British dramatist to die - supposedly in his case - by violence until Joe Orton in the 1960s) then Kit, under the false name of "Will Shakespeare" may have died in April 1616. However, as there were serious allegations spreading about Kit in 1594 regarding atheistic beliefs (then unlawful), the "brawl" either was staged to allow him to vanish while his place was taken by some unfortunate substitute, or it was more of a political assassination by agents (such as Frizer) of Sir Francis Walsingham (Marlowe's protector and friend - who might be compromised by the connection to Marlowe).

2) The main characters in "Tin Men" were aluminum siding salesmen.

Jeff

Hi Jeff

Excellent work. Absolutely correct on both counts. I will be pleased to send you the conspiracy booklets and the VCR tape if you send me your snail mail address by private message.

Cheers

Chris

[ChrisGeorge]

Time Is Growing Short! Just Two Weeks Left to Register for RipperCon 2018 in Baltimore! Only Fifty Places Available!!!

Book your place now for RipperCon in Baltimore in April. Don't miss out on two days of talks and two days of tours, Friday, April 6 through Monday, April 9. Complete details at www.RipperCon.com. This is the only North American #JacktheRipper-#True Crime conference in the 130th Anniversary Year of the Whitechapel Murders.

Note also our upcoming very special Valentine's Day "To Die For" Evening at the Duchess of Windsor Museum, 206 E. Biddle Street, Baltimore, Saturday, February 17, 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm, featuring Mike Hawley talking about Dr. Tumblety's time in the City of Baltimore and signing copies of his books!







To hear Mike Hawley's talk at RipperCon 2016 go here. Mike's fine slide show presentation that accompanied his talk can be downloaded here. Thanks to Jonathan Menges and RipperCast.

[ChrisGeorge]

Spring is coming to Baltimore along with RipperCon 2018, Jack the Ripper - True Crime Conference. Space is still available but there are only fifty places!!!

Book your place now for RipperCon in Baltimore in April. Don't miss out on two days of talks and two days of tours, Friday, April 6 through Monday, April 9.

Complete details at www.RipperCon.com. This is the only North American #JacktheRipper-#True Crime conference in the 130th Anniversary Year of the Whitechapel Murders.

Washington Monument, Mount Vernon, Baltimore by Christopher T. George, April 2003.