Centenaries - whole and half

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 March 17 - Catherine Baker, 16, vanishes on a short walk to a local New Jersey food store. Her partially clad body was found in a river about 60 miles to the South in the middle of May. The cause of her death was blows to the head. An unkown serial killer is thought to possibly be responsible for the unsolved murder.

[sdreid]

250 years ago - 1766 March 16 - In Ireland, Nicholas Sheehy, a Roman Catholic Priest, is hanged, drawn and quartered for the murder of John Bridge. Father Sheehy was involved in some of the religious strife in his country and Mr. Bridge, who was said to be an informant, had vanished. There was no certain proof that Bridge was even dead.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 March 12 - New York dentist Arthur Warren Waite smothers his father-in-law John Peck. Dr. Waite had been poisoning, gassing and feeding the old man lethal bacteria for weeks and finally got tired of waiting. The killer had previously murdered his own mother-in-law and was about to do in his own wife when he was caught. Waite's motive was the collection of inheritance and life insurance benefits. In 1917, he went to the electic chair at Sing Sing.

[Ginger]

I wonder if he ever was visited when alone in his cell by "Spiney Norman" the hedgehog?

Jeff

BWAHAHAHH!!!

[Mayerling]

I think that's possible Jeff.

"Dimmsd...err...Ronnieee. Ronnieee!!!"

Jeff

[sdreid]

I wonder if he ever was visited when alone in his cell by "Spiney Norman" the hedgehog?

Jeff

I think that's possible Jeff.

[Mayerling]

50 years ago - 1966 March 9 - At an East London pub, Ronald Kray, of the infamous Kray Brothers Gang, shoots and kills George Cornell, a Richardson Gang associate. Kray received a life term for the murder and died incarcerated in 1995.

I wonder if he ever was visited when alone in his cell by "Spiney Norman" the hedgehog?

Jeff

[GUT]

A trifle over-sensitive of Ronnie wasn't it? It was Ron who was homosexual and supposedly having an affair with Lord Boothby, wasn't it? I always get confused between the twins.

Gut, I just do not believe that Mrs Gut insults you as much as you say!

You've got no idea the awful things that woman says why just the other day she said "I love you honey", what a rotten thing, and two weeks ago she said "Why don't we book another cruise" see torture at every turn.

[Rosella]

A trifle over-sensitive of Ronnie wasn't it? It was Ron who was homosexual and supposedly having an affair with Lord Boothby, wasn't it? I always get confused between the twins.

Gut, I just do not believe that Mrs Gut insults you as much as you say!

[GUT]

It would seem so GUT and it didn't help when Cornell called Kray a "fat poof".

I get called worse by Mrs Gut, every day.

[sdreid]

I assume the Kray incident of 9 March was a result of the incident on 8 March?

It would seem so GUT and it didn't help when Cornell called Kray a "fat poof".

[GUT]

I assume the Kray incident of 9 March was a result of the incident on 8 March?

[sdreid]

450 years ago - 1566 March 9 - Lord Darnley, aka Henry Stuart, and his associates stab David Rizzio to death. The lord was King Consort of Mary, Queen of Scots and the murder was inspired by rumors that Rizzio had gotten the monarch pregnant. Darnley escaped arrest due to his position but, in less than a year, was murdered himself.

100 years ago - 1916 March 9 - A band headed by Pancho Villa invades Columbus, New Mexico with the loss of at least 90 of his force. The invaders succeeded in killing 8 U.S. soldiers and 10 civilians. Villa escaped but was assassinated in 1923. Six of his men who were captured were later hanged.

50 years ago - 1966 March 9 - At an East London pub, Ronald Kray, of the infamous Kray Brothers Gang, shoots and kills George Cornell, a Richardson Gang associate. Kray received a life term for the murder and died incarcerated in 1995.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 March 8 - In the early morning hours at a club named Mr. Smith's, near Greenwich, England, a gunfight climaxes an altercation between associates of the Kray and Richardson gangs. Several men are wounded and Dickie Hart, a Kray affiliate, is killed. Hart's killing never resulted in a conviction.

50 years ago - 1966 March 8 - Wendy Sue Wolin, 7, is waiting on the sidewalk in front of her Elizabeth, New Jersey residence while her mother retrieves their car from a back parking lot. They have an afternoon outing planned but, as Wendy stands there, a never identified man for unknown reasons walks up to her and stabs her in the stomach then ambles off. The little girl's murder was never solved.

[GUT]

Yes, but I was just thinking the other day when I heard it that you wouldn't get any Gen Y's or Z's saying it, Gut. All the old slang is going, even 'Fair dinkum', which I love.

You are right, his names were Joseph Theodore Leslie, and he never used any of them!

Yeah I miss 'em too.

On another forum a Yank wanted to know about Aussie terms and I gave him a long list and ended by saying he'd probably hear very few, maybe mate and g'day.

I've seen the Theodore and Leslie swapped too, so not totally sure of the order.