Baltimore conference

[Steadmund Brand]

Time is running out folks!!! You don't want to miss this.. who knows when or if there will be an American conference again.....such a great line up of speakers, plus the chance to get together with people who share a similar interest, I don't know about you folks out there, but not easy to find many people locally for this kind of discussion... this conference is the kind of thing that could create life long friendships...I for one am looking forward to an AMAZING weekend......plus the weather will be great in Baltimore that time of year.. can even catch a Baseball game if you want ( the O's are playing sat night and Sunday afternoon.. and from what I found out the stadium is really close to the conference!!!

Better get your reservations soon.. time is ticking away...and I really hope to see as many of you as possible, you don't have to have a Cigar with me, but you are always welcome to if you want

Steadmund Brand

[ChrisGeorge]

Thirteen days left to sign up for RipperCon in Baltimore April 8-10 starring Martin Fido (The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z) -- deadline March 15! If you are interested in coming, sign up now! Complete information at RipperCon.com.

[Pcdunn]

Another good one!

and-they both have inky quills

I like this answer, too!

[Pcdunn]

Thanks for the answer, Shaggy!

That is where it comes from. "Because Poe wrote on both" is the most famous answer given by Chess master and puzzle writer Sam Loyd. Though Carroll did give the answer in a later edition's forward but the editors thought a purposeful backward spelling was a mistake, corrected it to the word they thought it was supposed to be and for years thought to be more gibberish. It was about 80 years before someone figured it out.

Great answer! I spent my childhood puzzling over it, as I tended to re-read my Modern Library combined copy of "Wonderland" and "Looking Glass" every summer from about ten years on. Now I know!

[Abby Normal]

Hi again Abby

Thanks once more. My talk in Baltimore at RipperCon on Saturday, April 9 will be different, because my thoughts on the death of Poe have evolved, but I wrote about Poe's death on my blog back in 2009. That was exactly 160 years after the writer was mysteriously found insensible on a Baltimore sidewalk outside a tavern on East Lombard Street and four days before his death, never having fully recovered, at Washington College Hospital on Broadway, Baltimore, on October 7, 1849. Here's the link --

http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/2009/11/mystery-of-death-of-edgar-allan-poe.html

(The comments on the blog posting are useful too, I think.)

Best regards

Chris

Nevermore

thank you sir! Ill check it out.

[Abby Normal]

The other one's I've heard are "One is a rest for pens, and the other a pest for wrens" and the meta "There is a B in both, and an N in neither."

and-they both have inky quills

[Errata]

That is where it comes from. "Because Poe wrote on both" is the most famous answer given by Chess master and puzzle writer Sam Loyd. Though Carroll did give the answer in a later edition's forward but the editors thought a purposeful backward spelling was a mistake, corrected it to the word they thought it was supposed to be and for years thought to be more gibberish. It was about 80 years before someone figured it out.

The other one's I've heard are "One is a rest for pens, and the other a pest for wrens" and the meta "There is a B in both, and an N in neither."

[ChrisGeorge]

Thanks Chris

well if your talk on Poe is ever available-in print or recorded, I would be very much interested in it!

Hi again Abby

Thanks once more. My talk in Baltimore at RipperCon on Saturday, April 9 will be different, because my thoughts on the death of Poe have evolved, but I wrote about Poe's death on my blog back in 2009. That was exactly 160 years after the writer was mysteriously found insensible on a Baltimore sidewalk outside a tavern on East Lombard Street and four days before his death, never having fully recovered, at Washington College Hospital on Broadway, Baltimore, on October 7, 1849. Here's the link --

http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/2009/11/mystery-of-death-of-edgar-allan-poe.html

(The comments on the blog posting are useful too, I think.)

Best regards

Chris

Nevermore

[Abby Normal]

Thanks for your interest and support, Abby. We are sorry you cannot be with us in Baltimore in April. Next time perhaps! We are planning RipperCon to be a biennial event, with the next one taking place in 2018 and I already know of several people who can't come this year but who say they will come then.

As for a transcript or recording of the upcoming talks in Baltimore, Jonathan Menges has spoken of recording at least part of the event for Rippercast. I will let Jonathan address that side of things, though I do know that he might need to assess the situation during the weekend to know exactly how much of RipperCon will be recorded for posterity.

Cheers

Chris

Thanks Chris

well if your talk on Poe is ever available-in print or recorded, I would be very much interested in it!

[ChrisGeorge]

Exactly. And I for one am so bummed I cant go to this but the money is the least of it. I grew up near Baltimore and it is near and dear to my Heart!!!


Chris, can I obtain transcripts of any of the talks?
I am especially interested in yours on Poe!

"Reynolds!"

Thanks for your interest and support, Abby. We are sorry you cannot be with us in Baltimore in April. Next time perhaps! We are planning RipperCon to be a biennial event, with the next one taking place in 2018 and I already know of several people who can't come this year but who say they will come then.

As for a transcript or recording of the upcoming talks in Baltimore, Jonathan Menges has spoken of recording at least part of the event for Rippercast. I will let Jonathan address that side of things, though I do know that he might need to assess the situation during the weekend to know exactly how much of RipperCon will be recorded for posterity.

Cheers

Chris

[Abby Normal]

We are putting on a top quality event. People will pay for a worthwhile event, and frankly we have to cover our expenses as well.

Exactly. And I for one am so bummed I cant go to this but the money is the least of it. I grew up near Baltimore and it is near and dear to my Heart!!!


Chris, can I obtain transcripts of any of the talks?
I am especially interested in yours on Poe!

"Reynolds!"

[Shaggyrand]

I thought the Mad Hatter asked Alice that riddle at the Tea Party but never gave her the answer?

That is where it comes from. "Because Poe wrote on both" is the most famous answer given by Chess master and puzzle writer Sam Loyd. Though Carroll did give the answer in a later edition's forward but the editors thought a purposeful backward spelling was a mistake, corrected it to the word they thought it was supposed to be and for years thought to be more gibberish. It was about 80 years before someone figured it out.

[Rosella]

I thought the Mad Hatter asked Alice that riddle at the Tea Party but never gave her the answer?

[Shaggyrand]

I read a book once where there was a Poe themed bar and in order to get a drink you had to answer the question "How is a raven like a writing desk?"

I think that "Poe's Tavern", a small chain in South Carolina and Florida, did that. Don't know if they did at all location but the one in Atlantic Beach used to.
The Annabel Lee Tavern in Baltimore doesn't but it is a place most groovy.

[ChrisGeorge]

I live an hour from Baltimore and was very excited when this was announced, but I find the price absurdly high and won't be attending.

We are putting on a top quality event. People will pay for a worthwhile event, and frankly we have to cover our expenses as well.