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Another coincidence!!!I was surprised this morning, not for the first time, to hear commentary from an NPR announcer named Jennifer Levin. Presumably not this one:
Well, leave it to bland old NPR to start using EVP transmissions to give equal time to crime victims.
Here's an unfortunate one. After all our talk Monday about drinking "apple cider" and drinking "peanut butter," I went to a home visit where the dad held forth at some length about how the judge in his case is making him eat "peanut butter" off the "peanut buttery" end of the stick. It sort of brought our discussion about Albert Fish flooding back into my mind.
Last night I read that John Wallace was executed in Georgia's electric chair on November 3rd. Just now at a Wraparound meeting someone mentioned that her lease in her current apt is up November 3rd.
I was just reading a Wikipedia article about the Cleft Chin Murder and discovered that the main victim of the crime was a guy named George Edward Heath. I looked it up because of an article that lumped together 3 WWII-era killers -- August Sangret, Gordon Cummins and old Clefty. The coincidence is that George Neville Clevely Heath is yet another notorious WWII-era murderer.
This one actually relates to this very group! I was thinking that one way to get A.R. commenting here at the group again would be to send her some more books. I was packing them up and stopped working to finish the last little piece of the chapter of A Trail of Corn: A True Mystery I was working on. Well, sir, the witness the police were talking to mentioned that she picked her daughter up at John Muir Middle School in San Leandro. I have no doubt at all that the school was named after A.R.'s grandfather, THE John Muir.
That's the guy. Or maybe he's her great-grandfather. I forget exactly.
You know...speaking of great-grandfathers...and this just hit me...My great-grandfather was the governor of Norwich Prison in England. Maybe that's where my True Crime interest came from. Maybe it's a gene.
Watching America's Got Talent. A group of guys were singing a song I had never heard of before. I googled it and it was called 7 Years. One of the lyrics in the song repeats several times "Soon I'll Be 60 years old". I got shivers down my spine. I'll be 60 years old tomorrow!
Happy Birthday, Koren! I hope you have an awesome day tomorrow! (starts in an hour in my time zone)
Here's one! I was just reading an article about Gene Wilder that mentioned that he attended the University of Iowa. I headed downstairs to wash dishes and they were talking about college costs, using the University of Iowa as an example. The commentator was named Gilda!
Fishface wrote: "Here's one! I was just reading an article about Gene Wilder that mentioned that he attended the University of Iowa. I headed downstairs to wash dishes and they were talking about college costs, usi..."Interesting.
Shelley wrote: "Happy Birthday, Koren! I hope you have an awesome day tomorrow! (starts in an hour in my time zone)"
Thanks.
And what kind of cake are we having Koren???
Fishface wrote: "And what kind of cake are we having Koren???"
That one looks good!
I just finished reading The Birds and that same morning, two of the fossil casts hanging up in the bathroom fell off the wall. One was a Pterodactyl and the other was an Archaeopteryx. They have never fallen off the wall in all the years I've had them hanging up there.
I hope they didn't break! Birds of a feather flocking together?The movie made from Du Maurier's short story is a pretty good replication, if you haven't seen it. Seems like they used to do a better job of recreating the book in the movie back then. The original (1934?) movie of Rebecca (another Du Maurier) is very true-to-print as well.
Amazingly, they did not break. I have tried repeatedly to read DuMaurier's story but books you can buy claiming to have that story in it...don't.
Has anyone heard of the country group The Willis Clan? Its a group of 12 kids that are brothers and sisters. They were on America's Got Talent and had a show on TLC. They are coming to our area in October and I was just telling my husband I would like to go see them but you have to be a member of "The Concert Association" to go. Yesterday it came out that the father has been arrested for rape involving a child.
I think I may have heard of them. Wow, shades of the Jackson Five, am I right?
I guess the Dionne Quintuplets were sexually abused too. People are gross and need to be arrested.
This isn't precisely a coincidence, but it struck me anyway. We just passed the anniversary of the murder of Gretchen Fritz about a month ago now, and she made it into a recent trivia question. So last night I was watching A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET while getting some cardio in on the treadmill, which I decided to watch because everyone and his hamster has been telling me this week about nightmares. Well, I was just very struck by how closely the actress who played Tina, Freddy's first victim in that movie, looked like Gretchen:
Gretchen
Tina, played by Amanda Wyss
Fishface wrote: "This isn't precisely a coincidence, but it struck me anyway. We just passed the anniversary of the murder of Gretchen Fritz about a month ago now, and she made it into a recent trivia question. So ..."Yes, they do look alike.
I'm looking at a stack of magazines I got from the library that have book reviews and I'm adding to my wish list when it popped into my head that I wish Terry Mcmillan would come out with a new book. She is one of my favorite fiction writers and she hasn't had a new book in years. It was not even a full minute and I turned the page and there it was- she has a new book out.
Koren wrote: "I'm looking at a stack of magazines I got from the library that have book reviews and I'm adding to my wish list when it popped into my head that I wish Terry Mcmillan would come out with a new boo..."You may be a roll. See if it works for lottery tickets. :)
You may be a roll. Or you may be a biscuit.
If she's a roll, is she an aileron roll?
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1992-2016. Right below a post about Arnold Palmer. Look at the years of birth for both athletes.
Arnold Palmer
1929-2016
Twice in two days I heard people make the same unusual usage error; they said "shimmy" when they meant "shinny."This is shimmying:
This is shinnying:
I've heard the two used interchangeably since I was a kid. I always used 'shinny', as in shinny up the pole.
I came from one appointment at someone's house -- let's say the client was named "Seymour" because I can't reveal names -- and walked into a house for another appt where the TV was on. On the screen a cartoon character was screaming, "You're not Seymour! You're NOTHING like Seymour!" What made it even more disturbing is that the cartoon character bore a strong resemblance to yet another client.
Fishface wrote: "I came from one appointment at someone's house -- let's say the client was named "Seymour" because I can't reveal names -- and walked into a house for another appt where the TV was on. On the scree..."Whoa!
Fishface wrote: "Twice in two days I heard people make the same unusual usage error; they said "shimmy" when they meant "shinny."This is shimmying:
This is shinnying:
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OK. Well, they said Hillary was shimmying during the debate. I don't think she did THAT!
That would so totally not be her style.
Neither shimmying NOR shinnying. What in the world was someone talking about? Sniffling? That was Trump. Shining? I really hope she doesn't have The Shining!
I tried to post the gif but it just won't work. Here's the link:http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Ent...
They are definitely using the term "Hilary's Shimmy"
That is much closer to a shimmy than a shinny. But Nancy Grace does it with more elan in the gif above.
Shelley wrote: "I tried to post the gif but it just won't work. Here's the link:http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Ent...
They are definitely using the term "Hilary..."
I thought it was more like a shudder than a shimmy. I did the same thing myself after listening to him.
Here's a terribly sad coincidence that I read about recently in A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI by Graham Chapman. I looked this morning in my Book of the Dead and saw that today is the very day: The 45th anniversary of the airing of the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the 25th anniversary of the day we lost Dr. Chapman to cancer.
OK, this morning I was very excited to be able to donate DNA to the National Geographic Society to map as much of human ancestry as possible -- it was a birthday present to myself. I'm especially interested to find out the background of the ? branch of the family, and I've wondered for a while now how much of the ancestral bloodline is Neanderthal. This test promises to tell me all that. So after I sealed the package to mail out, I picked up this week's news magazine which was open to the "what to watch on TV" page. Having no reception I rarely bother to read about shows I can't watch, but this is what I noticed immediately: "NOVA: Great Human Odyssey: We think we're pretty tough. Our early ancestors were tougher. Watch scientists prove it as they trace the fascinating journeys of various groups who separately left Africa and spread the species' reach to the far corners of the globe..."
And that happens to be airing today!
Fishface wrote: "OK, this morning I was very excited to be able to donate DNA to the National Geographic Society to map as much of human ancestry as possible -- it was a birthday present to myself. I'm especially i..."That is so cool! I would love to get that done! AND....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
I did that a few years ago. What you get back is not as detailed as, say, one of the private analyses, but it's still interesting. One fun thing is trying to guess, from pictures, who you are most closely related to.
Fishface wrote: "OK, this morning I was very excited to be able to donate DNA to the National Geographic Society to map as much of human ancestry as possible -- it was a birthday present to myself. I'm especially i..."Happy Birthday!
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I was still a little steamed and thinking about it when I turned on the radio to wash dishes. NPR had a quiz show on, and as I was struggling to scrub the gravy out of the slow cooker, I realized that the answer to the next question in the quiz was...Harvey Milk!