News Flash!! . . . VINCENT VAN GOGH WAS JACK THE RIPPER!!

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Publish it yourself then Dale.

[Vincent alias Jack]

Strike a light!..It was Tony Van Dyke
Who slashed off Eddowes ear
aided an' abetted by an artist not known yet
and hidden by the "laughing Cavalier"

Screamin' Lord Sutch?..nah..Edvard Munch
Maybe Whistlers Mother played a part
Women all a faintin', Constable still paintin'?
shoulda done his job..forgotten art!

Thanks for the Starry Night poetry, Andy1867. That’s the spirit. Here’s a quick one I previously wrote:

Oh, starry, starry night,
Van Gogh painted you so bright.

It gives us such a thrill,
It's a shame he liked to kill.

He preferred to cut their throats,
And he liked to write them notes.

Oh, starry, starry night,
Such a scary, scary freight.

Thanks,
Dale Larner

[Vincent alias Jack]

Another month gone still no sign of this book.

I know it’s frustrating, and it’s sure to be longer, but it WILL be worth the wait. I’m determined to find my way to the end of this long road, somehow, someway.

All the Best,
Dale Larner

[Vincent alias Jack]

Van Gogh Birhday Poem

And today, here at least, is VVG's birthday.

So glad you noticed, but I can’t wish him a happy one. However, since Andy1867 shared some poetry, I figure I might as well share the one I wrote for the occasion.

Van Gogh’s Birthday
March 30, 1853

I give you the painter named Vincent van Gogh,
And I pose to you this question—How much do you really know?

Do you love his sunflowers and his starry starry night?
Have you read his letters and sympathize with his plight?

I’m sure you know that he cut off his ear,
That he drank Absinthe, and sometimes even beer;
And if you had trouble finding where he might be,
You’d find him at a brothel, where nothing is free.

But did you know Vincent carried a knife,
And in his heart, lots of anger and strife?;
Women and his family were always to blame,
But we tend to overlook this because of his fame.

Vincent van Gogh was not as he seems,
He was always preoccupied with dark and sinister schemes.

London was the place where everything went wrong,
So he liked to travel back there, but he could never stay long;
He’d find himself a prostitute and give a cut to her throat,
Then hop on a train and cross the English Channel on a boat.

Scotland Yard looked hard for a clue,
But they really had no idea just what to do;
What type of person to look for, they just didn’t know,
If only they had met the painter named Vincent van Gogh.

Thanks,
Dale Larner

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Also day Sunflowers sold for about 65 million pound.

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And today, here at least, is VVG's birthday.

[Pcdunn]

Nice one, Andy!

Starry Starry night
paint your palette blue an' grey
kill a whore an' run away
clad in astrakan and peaky hat

Hide in Shadows from t'old Bill
chalk upon a windowsill
blood upon an apron spill
lain crushed and broken upon Goulstones strand

Now I understand

what you tried to do to them
how you came to sanitorium
as a Carrol anagram

They would not listen, they would show no sign
nor would Abberline

Starry Starry night
flashing knives cut, fingers crush
should have stuck with a paintbrush
Cornwell then could write of simply you

Maybricks changing hue
from Liverpool he caught the train
from Dieppe..did it again
A killer who could kill from other lands

Now I understand

the violence and the homicide
the farthings lying side by side
(though I;m baffled by Liz Stride)

They would not listen then..who was it?
perhaps its Ishcensmidt................(sp


For they did not know you
but here I say it true
You ended up in Colney hatch
cutting off ears to find a match
and when you failed you went insane as nutters do
but I could have told you Vincent...
I find Holbein just as culpable, Da Vinci , maybe guiltier than you.



(Guitar solo)

Great parody of one of my favorite songs!

[Mayerling]

Could it have been Paul?
He did like the ladies so...
You saw how he let it go when he moved to Tahiti.
And on that bleak December Day
While poor Montie drifts away....
Paul joined the crowd to watch a "hero" go.
And was able to give a farewell to the far less successful Prado!

[Mayerling]

I've always had my suspicions about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

But I don't think he was working alone, someone must have put him up to it.

If it was T-L he certainly cut his victims down to size.

The issue is , Can-can T-H have done it? If it was mentioned by Doyle in one of the Holmes' stories, it would definitely have been called "The case of the Ferrer document".

[andy1867]

Swanson, Abberline, Anderson an' Reid
never saw the stuff that I have see'd
not a single copper saw the last supper
and saw the the picture i perceived

Bloke on the left?..next to Judas..in a vest..?
breakin' bread and looking "Holier than thou?
Astrakan Apostle,.. Hutch..had seen him in a brothel!
Its Cutbush!..can you see it now?

Shall I paint you a picture..the bloke holdin' the pitcher
is a ringer for a Sickert full o sin
an' the lady on the left..its Mary Pearcey ...in a shift
it looks nowt like the Mary Magdalene!

St Peter?..thats a joke..its a blotchy faced bloke
you can just perceive a carroty moustache
Shabby an' genteel is the mood it makes me feel
he's just been in the 10 bells on the lash

[andy1867]

Strike a light!..It was Tony Van Dyke
Who slashed off Eddowes ear
aided an' abetted by an artist not known yet
and hidden by the "laughing Cavalier"

Screamin' Lord Sutch?..nah..Edvard Munch
Maybe Whistlers Mother played a part
Women all a faintin', Constable still paintin'?
shoulda done his job..forgotten art!

[andy1867]

Starry Starry night
paint your palette blue an' grey
kill a whore an' run away
clad in astrakan and peaky hat

Hide in Shadows from t'old Bill
chalk upon a windowsill
blood upon an apron spill
lain crushed and broken upon Goulstones strand

Now I understand

what you tried to do to them
how you came to sanitorium
as a Carrol anagram

They would not listen, they would show no sign
nor would Abberline

Starry Starry night
flashing knives cut, fingers crush
should have stuck with a paintbrush
Cornwell then could write of simply you

Maybricks changing hue
from Liverpool he caught the train
from Dieppe..did it again
A killer who could kill from other lands

Now I understand

the violence and the homicide
the farthings lying side by side
(though I;m baffled by Liz Stride)

They would not listen then..who was it?
perhaps its Ishcensmidt................(sp


For they did not know you
but here I say it true
You ended up in Colney hatch
cutting off ears to find a match
and when you failed you went insane as nutters do
but I could have told you Vincent...
I find Holbein just as culpable, Da Vinci , maybe guiltier than you.



(Guitar solo)

[MrBarnett]

I've always had my suspicions about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

But I don't think he was working alone, someone must have put him up to it.

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Another month gone still no sign of this book.

Dale has founf another artist he is looking at, one that specializes in Bovines.

[Amanda]

Spoons...

Hello Pinkmoon,

It might be worth you seeking discount on wooden spoons, you seem to be using a lot of them lately

Amanda