Vote the Diary

[GUT]

Personally I think Jim has a cast iron alibi.

[The Good Michael]

It also says:

"View Poll Results: The Dairy of Jack the Ripper was written by..."

Cue ancient jokes about cash cows and holy cows.

Maybe it should be called the Forge of JtR, as its maker was meant to be anvil personified.

Personally I'm not sure it's one thing or the udder, but I've gone for the old forger - and a couple of yogurts please.

Love,

The Old Cow
X

I'll have none of that bellowing about forges. It upsets me that everyone just hammers on this nonsense on a daily basis, and I'm not sure that this isn't something Caz has wrought. But me? I'm going to go chisel away at the Tabram mystery, see if I can iron out a few things.

Mike

[GUT]

Sorry Caz

[GUT]

And I can't type.

[Hunter]

I thought Chaz was Sonny and Cher's daughter who now thinks he's/she's their son... LOL.. No... Caroline's wit is unsurpassed, no doubt.

[GUT]

G'day Chaz

Not I can't stop laughing.

[caz]

Also the poll says "Old forger" and I don't think whoever forged it was young.

It also says:

"View Poll Results: The Dairy of Jack the Ripper was written by..."

Cue ancient jokes about cash cows and holy cows.

Maybe it should be called the Forge of JtR, as its maker was meant to be anvil personified.

Personally I'm not sure it's one thing or the udder, but I've gone for the old forger - and a couple of yogurts please.

Love,

The Old Cow
X

[pinkmoon]

Come on everyone vote!If you don't vote you can't moan about the diary.

[pinkmoon]

There should be a fourth choice:

Undecided


The Undecideds would fall into the document is old category.

I used to be indecisive now im just not sure

[MayBea]

There should be a fourth choice:

Undecided


The Undecideds would fall into the document is old category.

[GUT]

Also the poll says "Old forger" and I don't think whoever forged it was young.

[GUT]

G'day MayBea

I'm fully aware of the earlier tests and I really wouldn't argue with a more recent forgery. To be honest the only reason voted old forgery was because that was the furthest back I could take it.

[pinkmoon]

The results of the ion migration test are considered to be of limited reliability even by the hoax theorists.

This quote from the dissertation of Melvin Harris:



http://www.casebook.org/dissertation.../factfile.html

Hi maybe ,I'm pretty sure that the diary came out of battlecrease shortly before it was launched on us in what form I'm undecided.

[MayBea]

Only if the ink didn't date to 1908 at the earliest, on the testing that has been done.

The results of the ion migration test are considered to be of limited reliability even by the hoax theorists.

This quote from the dissertation of Melvin Harris:

...This attempt to date the Diary ink was made by Roderick McNeil of Polson, Monatana. Using a technique known as 'scaning auger microscopy', McNeil asserts that he can measure the migration of tiny particles in the ink and from those measurements, calculate the time the ink has been on paper. Now, ion-migration tests have been used for over sixty years by document examiners, but no one except McNeil has ever claimed that such tests could be refined to provide accurate dating. Such tests have simply been used to determine the difference in age between two writings supposed to have been created at the same time and under the same conditions.

McNeil was given a chance to date the Diary ink by the Rendell examining body, since he made great claims for his 'perfected tests'. He calculated its date as 1921, plus or minus twelve years, a date that was in clear conflict with earlier tests and with the textual evidence which showed it to be a recent concoction.

http://www.casebook.org/dissertation.../factfile.html

[GUT]

Only if the ink didn't date to 1908 at the earliest, on the testing that has been done.