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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 27 2008, 08:42 PM (1,364 Views) | |
| la anaconda de chocolatee | Feb 29 2008, 02:05 AM Post #61 |
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he's a sucker is what he is! |
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| Denovissimus | Feb 29 2008, 04:49 PM Post #62 |
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And you are a godless heathen! |
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| Auntie Maine | Feb 29 2008, 11:02 PM Post #63 |
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Bitchy Witch
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You are just tormenting the woman today aren't you. every thread calls her a heathen.
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| Auntie Maine | Mar 3 2008, 01:26 PM Post #64 |
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Jack the Ripper returns LONDON (Reuters) - Jack the Ripper is about to return to the part of London he made his own private killing ground in one of history's most infamous unsolved crimes. But in a country that has made headlines in the past week with the conviction of two serial murderers, the inhabitants of the now prosperous but once poverty-ridden East End of London need have no fears. The return of the 19th century prostitute killer is in the form of an exhibition looking at the era, the area, the victims and the possible perpetrators of the crimes that shocked the nation and have since become a rich seam of popular fiction. "We explore Jack the Ripper in the context of the East End and explain who lived there and what it was like to live there," said exhibition curator Julia Hoffbrand. "The murders and the media interest they generated shone a light into a terrible conditions in the area which was riddled with prostitution, dirt, violence and crime," she told Reuters at a preview of the exhibition this week. The lurid news coverage of the murders even prompted Queen Victoria to write asking if more could be done for the destitute women of the squalid, disease-ridden and vermin infested area. The exhibition, which opens in London's Museum in Docklands on May 15 and runs to November 2, also peels away some of the myths surrounding the murderer whose identity remains to this day a topic of heated speculation. It is commonly assumed that the Ripper killed and mutilated five young prostitutes. But using police records the exhibition reveals that the authorities believed up to 11 murders may have been committed by the same person between April 1888 and early 1891. "What emerges is the fact that an unknown number of women were actually murdered in the area at the time," Hoffbrand said. Current theories also tend to focus on the killer being a member of the gentry -- and possibly even royalty -- wreaking his sadistic revenge on women from the gutter. But Hoffbrand noted that most of the names mentioned in this context did not appear until after World War Two, and speculated that this previously absent class distinction may have been a result of the social upheavals that followed the conflict. "The people mentioned at the time were Jews -- a group that had only recently moved into the East End -- doctors and radical socialists. They were all people who lived in the area. The outsider theories came many years later," she said. The name came from a letter written in red ink in a flowing hand that was sent to the central news agency and starts: "I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they won't fix me just yet..." and was signed Jack the Ripper. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of lectures and talks and guided walks down the streets where the Ripper committed his bloody deeds 120 years ago. |
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| Nicky Mayfair | Mar 3 2008, 01:29 PM Post #65 |
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marvellously mischievous
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Stevie's taking me to do the walk tonight, 'coz Donald Rumbleow's doing it! and that article is slightly misleading, 'coz the East End is still pretty poor! |
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| Auntie Maine | Mar 3 2008, 01:30 PM Post #66 |
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Its all government or low income housing right?Or pretty much all of it. |
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| Nicky Mayfair | Mar 3 2008, 01:34 PM Post #67 |
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marvellously mischievous
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it's always been poor and always will be, I think. |
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| Denovissimus | Mar 3 2008, 01:36 PM Post #68 |
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Immortal Heretic
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It did look poor from my memory, but we passed an area where the air was filled with the delightful smell of curry. |
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| Nicky Mayfair | Mar 3 2008, 01:39 PM Post #69 |
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Brick Lane! |
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| Denovissimus | Mar 3 2008, 01:40 PM Post #70 |
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It wasn't far from the Tower of London. He did the tour immediately after visiting the Tower. I still have a keychain I bought from one of the gift shops. |
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| Nicky Mayfair | Mar 3 2008, 01:41 PM Post #71 |
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yeh, that's where the tour starts from tonight, I can't wait! |
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| Nicky Mayfair | Mar 4 2008, 10:48 AM Post #72 |
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it was gr8!! I got Donald's business card at the end, gonna email him and secure me a trip to the Black Museum! |
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| Denovissimus | Mar 4 2008, 01:15 PM Post #73 |
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Did you drink in the Ten Bells?
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| Auntie Maine | Mar 4 2008, 01:19 PM Post #74 |
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I've read that The Ten Bells is anti Ripper now. |
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| Denovissimus | Mar 4 2008, 01:28 PM Post #75 |
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Immortal Heretic
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I guess they don't like business then. |
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| Auntie Maine | Mar 4 2008, 01:30 PM Post #76 |
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Bitchy Witch
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The article I read said they have plenty of local business and do not care to have tourist come in.
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| Denovissimus | Mar 4 2008, 01:37 PM Post #77 |
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Immortal Heretic
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Bitches |
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| Nicky Mayfair | Mar 4 2008, 01:48 PM Post #78 |
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they still have reproductions of the Rippers newspapers lining the stairwell, and the bog is full of Ripper graffiti still, which I added to!
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| Denovissimus | Mar 4 2008, 02:26 PM Post #79 |
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Immortal Heretic
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Nicky in vandelism shocker! What did you write? Saucy Jack sucks cock in hell?
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| Nicky Mayfair | Mar 4 2008, 02:26 PM Post #80 |
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marvellously mischievous
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'Nicky James is not the sexy little mutha that will not be blamed for nothing!' |
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every thread calls her a heathen. 
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