Have Ripperologists Been Polled As To Who They Think Jack Really Was?

[Monty]

Sung to the tune of 'Yesterday' by The Beatles.

Leprosy, I'm just half the man I use to be,
Things keep dropping off of me....CLUNK,
Oh bloody hell there goes my knee,

Now I could continue but the next line continues with...

..Syphils, how the hell am I going to tell the Mussus about this..

....And finishes with Gonnereah.

Merry Christmas all.

Monty

[Simon Wood]

Hi Ken,

I could be ploughing a redundant Yuletide furrow here, but when I asked The Leper of St. Giles for a large whisky he gave me three fingers.

Regards,

Simon

[The Grave Maurice]

He kept throwing his hand in.

Excellent. First time I've laughed today. Thanks.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Lynn,

Precisely.

Regards,

Simon

[lynn cates]

simple

Hello Simon. Cute.

What always impressed me about the good fictionalised Benedictine is that his observations were all simple. He always ran through each murder sequence in his mind, then everything flowed naturally.

Eventually, the same will happen with "Jack."

Cheers.
LC

[Simon Wood]

Hi Lynn,

I gave up playing poker with The Leper of St. Giles.

He kept throwing his hand in.

Regards,

Simon

[lynn cates]

give me sanctuary

Hello Neil. I'll say. Makes one wish to be merely a "Sanctuary Sparrow."

Cheers.
LC

[Monty]

Hello Maurice. Well, those of us who do not believe in Jack the Ripper sometimes feel like "The Leper of St. Giles."

Cheers.
LC

Lifes tough isn't it Lynn?

Monty

[lynn cates]

why

Hello Greg. Not to mention "Why?"

Cheers.
LC

[GregBaron]

Invisible sailor...

And why not Feigenbaum ? ticks all the boxes

Hi Trevor,

I do like your sailor theory but Feig seems too short, too light, too German, too absent, too dumb for me.............

You'll have more luck searching for the Invisible Man.

Thanks Simon. That gave me a laugh. That was one of my favorite Wells' novels. I need to go re-read to see if the phantom showed glimpses of himself. As I recall he did, so that gives the Popeye hunters some hope.....

Hello Greg. Did your sailor make it up out of whole cloth?

Hi Lynn,

I expect the sailor had been slicing and dicing for some time. When he went from whales to women is the question...



Greg

[lynn cates]

leper

Hello Maurice. Well, those of us who do not believe in Jack the Ripper sometimes feel like "The Leper of St. Giles."

Cheers.
LC

[The Grave Maurice]

Brother Cadfael would have soon seen through all the Whitechapel murders nonsense. Cool analogy.

Simon,

I take it you're not referring to The Virgin in the Ice. Doesn't seem appropriate.

[Observer]

Oh dear.

You know, I realise this is the season of pantomime, but really.

Upon reading the last five or six pages in this thread, I now appreciate what it must have felt like to be in the day room at Colney Hatch on a bad day.

One inmate has even suggested that he is going to prise Catherine Eddowes free of the canon ! To whose satisfaction I ask? Napoleon Bonoparte's ?

(heh heh)

Merry Christmass to all our readers, and a very happy and prosperous new year.

Observer

[lynn cates]

whole cloth

Hello Greg. Did your sailor make it up out of whole cloth?

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

odd amn out

Hello Simon. Thanks. Yes, notice Sheriff Prescott's reply about 94 or 95--who cares?

The differences are subtle, but one does not belong.

Cheers.
LC