Acquiring A Victorian Diary

[Brenda]

So what IS an 'oreo cookie'?

Graham

I feel bad for you. You MUST experience an Oreo cookie or you have not truly lived your life to the fullest.

[Kaz]

I feel bad for you. You MUST experience an Oreo cookie or you have not truly lived your life to the fullest.

Couldn't agree more, a damn fine sandwich!


Lets just hope a pic of Mike eating an oreo materialises, or a dusty old receipt from Co-op!


That'll surely put the final nail in the coffin!

[Sam Flynn]

Lets just hope a pic of Mike eating an oreo materialises

That would really take the biscuit!

[Kaz]

That would really take the biscuit!

Well, thats how the cookie crumbles my friend

[Graham]

I just Googled 'oreo cookie'. Nothing special about them - we have very similar things here, but as I don't normally eat such junk I can't comment any further.

Graham

[Kaz]

I just Googled 'oreo cookie'. Nothing special about them - we have very similar things here, but as I don't normally eat such junk I can't comment any further.

Graham

Agreed

But I'm a sandwich short of a picnic (apperently) so please take my opinion with a pinch of salt (or bone black or arsenic if you're all out of salt)

[caz]

I feel bad for you. You MUST experience an Oreo cookie or you have not truly lived your life to the fullest.

Tastes a bit like I imagine bone black would taste. One of my least favourite biscuits in fact.

I would prefer a jammie dodger.

Love,

Caz
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[Graham]

These days I just make a big effort to limit my intake of sugar, which is now loaded into virtually every commercially-produced foodstuff you can think of.

Anyway....back to the black powder.

It was actually discovered in the spine of the book by Dr Eastaugh who thought it was possibly purified animal charcoal a.k.a. bone black. Whether he analysed it or not I don't know. At any rate, Shirley Harrison did a bit of background, and found that in the 1886 edition of Squire's Companion To The British Pharmacoepia bone black has, quote, 'the property of counteracting the effects of morphine, strychnine and aconite (arsenic)'. And 'these poisons may be swallowed with impunity if due proportion with purified animal charcoal'. I'm sure that bone black had various domestic and medicinal applications in those days, but given James Maybrick well-known taste for arsenic, I just thought it sounded...er...interesting.

Graham

[John Wheat]

Charmed, I'm sure.

But where is your evidence that Mike ever bought or borrowed 'a load of books on James Maybrick', or even on JtR for that matter?

Love,

Caz
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I got the impression from posts by David on this very thread that Mike had taken a load of books out on James Maybrick. If David has not said this then I am wrong. However you'd be better off taking it up David.

[John Wheat]

I don't know about such people, John. I can't open my own mind to what I find a completely idiotic attachment to Mike's equally idiotic, drunken forgery claims. Only if he could have pinched someone else's creation without their knowledge or approval, might I then be open to the possibility that the writing is more recent than the 'prior to 1970' date which the Rendell team finally settled on.

I do know I have a leg to stand on, however. In fact I have two. I used them to dance with less than a week ago.

Love,

Caz
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I've no doubt Mike is a buffoon but even a buffoon could have forged the diary and certainly someone close to a buffoon could have forged the diary.

[John Wheat]

You might want to read your own posts properly, John. Just a thought.



Love,

Caz
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I do read my own posts properly.

[Observer]

If it was ever thrown into a skip. That claim IMHO was only made by Eddie Lyons to distance himself from allegations that he had taken the diary away from the house.

Love,

Caz
X

Pick and choose to your hearts content, In fairness though your honest opinion means zilch to me. It was stated that it had been thrown into a skip.

[GUT]

Pick and choose to your hearts content, In fairness though your honest opinion means zilch to me. It was stated that it had been thrown into a skip.

But don’t you know that’s the way in ripperology, accept the parts of a story that fit your position, reject the other bits.

[John Wheat]

But don’t you know that’s the way in ripperology, accept the parts of a story that fit your position, reject the other bits.

That's the way of those that have theories with holes in them.

[Kaz]

That's the way of those that have theories with holes in them.

Like your theory Mike Barrett collated James Maybrick literature...


You NEED to do better than this, John 'UNSPECIFIC' Wheat...