Jack the ripper guided tours: money on the back of victims or is it for charities?

[Lionel Jospin II]

Some persons talk about opportunistes and money makers on the back of the jack ripper victims...and beyond these persons who say like so is some who are tour guides (GH !!!for instance !!!)...Tour guides are making much lot of money with groups of around 20 persons by a tour so when consider a tour is mor than 10 pounds just calculate how much big money by a day they make !!!

I call it making profit on the back of dead victims that !!!

Or is all of this money going to charities ? I'm a socialist so it's normal i critic and want a answer !!!!

[Simon Wood]

Hi LJ II,

Je suppose que l'argent va directement dans leurs poches, moins les dépenses. Mais il n'y a rien de mal à cela dans un marché libre. Ce n'est pas le prix du sang.

Regards,

Simon

[Magpie]

I'm sorry, but that's just a load of tosh.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Magpie,

Him or me?

Regards,

Simon

[Celesta]

Lionel,

As long as the people conducting them teach people about the victims, their neighborhoods, the deplorable conditions at the time, and the city of London and the British Empire in the late 1880's, I see these tours as history tours. A good guide is more than just a guide, and I think they should be compensated for their work.

[Howard Brown]

Conducting tours of the East End is as Celesta mentioned not only educational, but conducive to attracting people to the field of Ripperology. If the tourguides make money, then its well deserved. Its a chance for Americans,Australians,New Zealanders,Canadians and Europeans to get in touch with an important event from their collective history.

Unfortunately,Lionel, we English speaking people do not have someone as gifted as say...oh,I don't know...say, ze Sophie Herfort...who has to the satisfaction of the Francophonic element in Ripperology at least....conclusively proven that..chuckle ...Melville Macnaghten was ze Ripper.

[Lionel Jospin II]

Conducting tours of the East End is as Celesta mentioned not only educational, but conducive to attracting people to the field of Ripperology. If the tourguides make money, then its well deserved. Its a chance for Americans,Australians,New Zealanders,Canadians and Europeans to get in touch with an important event from their collective history.

Unfortunately,Lionel, we English speaking people do not have someone as gifted as say...oh,I don't know...say, ze Sophie Herfort...who has to the satisfaction of the Francophonic element in Ripperology at least....conclusively proven that..chuckle ...Melville Macnaghten was ze Ripper.

Yes right without doubte, but sophie herfort writes fiction no facts. The book of her i have readen is a good thriller but i don't think it was real. mac nagten is only used as for fiction but he could have be a suspect with lover george lusk complicity maybe. for me it is just james maybryk for sure who was jack the ripper !!!

[Howard Brown]

After banging my head into the side of a brick wall 35 times,I understand what you are saying,Lionel. Sorry for the delay in responding.

I gotta tell ya,Lionel...after reading your other post about Macnaghten and Lusk being lovers and wanting to see them kill girls..because you're gay...By God, I am ready to be a card carrying Socialist ! Thats what I want to see more of in Ripper books ! Socialist themes.

Here's an idea for you,mon frer...How about a French Jack The Ripper...who goes around the streets at night...prowling for prostitutes...and attacking them with a bar of soap ? Soap is sort of like a forbidden thing in France, is it not ?

Tell me what you think,mon ami...and lets see if Soapie...er, Sophie Herfort can write a fiction book about that,eh?

[Robert]

Good Moaning

I dote if Jock the Rapper was a Frenchman attacking people with soup. He may have bone, but it would be a long shat.

And noo I will leave as I am just pissing through.

[Sam Flynn]

How about a French Jack The Ripper...who goes around the streets at night...prowling for prostitutes...and attacking them with a bar of soap ?

You may be onto something, there, How - although you might not like where this is leading us. Might not Roslyn d'Onston have written to the papers under the nom de plume of "One Who Knows"? Is it not true that "one who knows", in French, is a Savant and that "savant" is pronounced much like savon, the French for... soap?!

Stranger things have been proposed.

[Howard Brown]

Robert:

Its just this sort of insensitivity you're displaying towards your fellow human beings and the French.... thats gonna get you painted with the same brush as that ahole on JTRForums.

Good one,by the way

[Howard Brown]

O Soapient Conclusion ! You learn something new everyday...

like savon, the French for... soap?! -Monsieur Flynn

I didn't even know they had a word for "soap" in French !!!

[Magpie]

Hi Simon.

That would be him

I guess we were typing at the same time.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Magpie,

Phew!

Regards,

Simon

[Graham]

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France -

Duke of Wellington

Graham