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There is only one McHenry family. We are ALL related. Apparently the name isn't uncommon at all in Indiana!!!
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Fishface wrote: "There is only one McHenry family. We are ALL related. Apparently the name isn't uncommon at all in Indiana!!!"My brother-in-law's name is John Turner. Can you get a more common name than that. I've seen that name in some true crime books. If I remember correctly, he is a cop somewhere on the west coast, maybe Seattle.
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Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "My father's last name is very common in his home state. Since it is Arkansas, I assume they are all related."LOL!
This morning's coincidence was VERY unlikely. I woke up with "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life," that last musical number from the movie LIFE OF BRIAN, in my head -- a movie I saw 1x, more than 15 years ago. I had finally gotten it out of my head by the time I got in the car to go to work. I turned on the radio and one of those morning DJ comedy crews was talking about weird places people have fallen asleep. In barrels, on ski lifts, places like that. Well, sir, the background music of this conversation was "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life."
I just read about a heckuva coincidence in The Best American Crime Reporting 2010. There's a piece in there about the man who shot John Wilkes Booth, who was watching Booth through a space between two of the wallboards in the barn where he was hiding. The soldier, who was apparently an incredible shot, took him down just as Booth was raising his own gun to fire. He mentioned later that the bullet struck Booth exactly where Booth's bullet struck president Lincoln. Huh!
This one floored me just now. All day long I've had this conversation from a documentary popping into my mind and I was trying to remember which documentary it came from. It was Viv Albertine of the Slits, talking about the fashion sense of her friend Sid Vicious, and she described him as "a good girly mate" because he could fix you up to go out in public looking terrific. I was still trying to remember where I saw this when I went to wash the dishes and turned on the radio to have something to listen to. They were interviewing Viv Albertine!
Fishface wrote: "This one floored me just now. All day long I've had this conversation from a documentary popping into my mind and I was trying to remember which documentary it came from. It was Viv Albertine of th..."That is a coincidence!
If you dont know U.S. politics you wont understand this one. Last week I told hubby to buy me a reusable ice pack as my shoulder has been bothering me. It took me a few days to notice the brand of the ice pack is Mueller. A few months ago I posted that the minister at a relatives funeral was pastor Mueller. I'm taking this as a good omen.
I have several medical devices by Mueller! Hmmm..."Mueller fixes what's broken?" "Mueller - for when the pain is bad?" "Mueller straightens everything out?" "Mueller, the best support system there is?"
K.A. wrote: "I have several medical devices by Mueller! Hmmm..."Mueller fixes what's broken?" "Mueller - for when the pain is bad?" "Mueller straightens everything out?" "Mueller, the best support system there ..."I have never heard of the Mueller brand but I think it sounds like a good omen.
Never mind the quality of the ice pack! I just hope he's the best special investigator there is!
Read a very good article detailing his background in the military - I think it was in Forbes, which I don't get but read while waiting in the Porsche-Jag dealer - which I don't have, either. Long story, but the article might be available online.
You bought a Porsche? Or was it a good used Jag Wire (as the locals call them)?
Every time I turn on the car radio lately they're playing "Faith" by George Michael. I wish this coincidence would stop, already.
Fishface wrote: "You bought a Porsche? Or was it a good used Jag Wire (as the locals call them)?"Unfortunately, no. My uncle bought a used Jag, which he does regularly over time, and it was in the shop. So I hung out and looked at the new Porsches.
Well, that should save you a small fortune. Not buying one, I mean.
OK, this one gave me a distinct chill. I am almost to the end of the horrifying documentary GOODNIGHT, SUGAR BABE and I have been thinking about the victim of the murder in that story, Vera Jo Reigle, all day. Well, I was in the middle of a session this afternoon and a call came in on my client's cellphone. It was a retail outlet calling her to do a initial interview to see whether the kid had the stuff to work for them. My client said, showing her great phone manners, "Thank you for calling, Vera."
Yikes. Rare name, and that documentary will haunt me forever.
I have been putting off seeing the end for 2 days. So much of what I've seen already is...so...(shudder)
I'm not sure if this is a coincidence or the opening scenes of a killer-bee movie, but I walked down the aisle in my department yesterday to see a co-worker showing off all the hornet stings she got moving logs in the woods behind her house the previous day. A few hours later, I was at a client's house listening to a story about how someone else was stung all over by hornets...
Yesterday the tv was on while I was reading. I heard the year 1972 mentioned at the same time I was reading 1972 in my book. Today I started to watch an old Errol Flynn movie on TCM. At the beginning of the movie someone circled a date on a calendar- Sept. 7, 1864, my birthday almost one hundred years before I was born. Ella Fitzgerald died today, the queen of soul dying 41 years to the day after Elvis Presley, the King Of Rock and Roll.
One of our TC group members just reviewed 3,096 Days, by Natascha Kampusch. I saw this just as I was about to add the anniversary of Natascha's escape from captivity to the TC anniversaries discussion...
So right now I'm reading For The Love Of Julie: A Nightmare Come True, A Mother's Courage, A Desperate Fight For Justice, about a young mom who was murdered November 16th. Yesterday I got a used copy of Hunting Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers in the mail and opened it at random to see if the author included dates of the offenses. It opened to the Horace Kelly section, which starts with the murder of Sonia Reed, found dead November 16th.
Half an hour ago, in the Zany Names Depository discussion, I mentioned John Collins, the Ypsilanti, MI serial killer. Then I got in the shower. I dried my hair, settled down to start reading more of Girl in the Grave and Other True Crime Stories, and a few pages along the author quoted a legal historian named John Collins.
Fishface wrote: "One of our TC group members just reviewed 3,096 Days, by Natascha Kampusch. I saw this just as I was about to add the anniversary of Natascha's escape from captivity to the TC annive..."Wow! Another coincidence with this book. I have not seen this post before and I just bought this book at a book sale today.
I am currently reading The Chicago Killer, about the John WAYNE Gacy investigation, right? So today I was at a stoplight and noticed that the van to my right said "PDM MI" on it. John Gacy's construction company was called PDM.
I still get shivers: My book, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice is about my family's discovery of a crate containing the remains of a murder victim. We did not know the victim or her family. Our two families lived in a city of over six million. Yet, if my mom stepped out on her balcony right now, she would be looking directly at the apartment building where the victim lived as a child. Coincidence? I think fate.
That is a doozy, Deborah! 6 million people equals a lot of balconies to step out onto. The odds against that are tremendous. Almost as incredible as the list of factors you had in common with Deborah Blau in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden...Today in team meeting, someone looked at FB and learned that a team member not present at the meeting had learned that her unborn baby is going to be a boy. Someone else looked around the table at the group and pointed out that almost everyone -- even the ones who usually wear black from stem to stern -- was wearing blue today. Take me for instance: blue jeans, bright blue shirt and matching blue Godzilla pendant. This is an overshare, but I wore blue underwear, even.
So I was at a family session that involved a lot of descriptions of one family member as a greedy, ungrateful B-face who only wants more, more, more. The meeting ran something like a whole extra hour and when I slumped behind the wheel of my car I turned on the radio immediately to get my mind off the argument. WOMC denied me a change of subject by playing "Everything She Wants" by Wham! -- a song about a greedy, ungrateful woman. Dude, they NEVER play that song. I may not have heard that one in 25 years.
Last night I had a gab fest on the phone with a good friend. We were talking about the high cost of insurance and I told her I knew 2 people that worked at the school that just work for insurance and one gal never gets a paycheck and even pays the school because her insurance is more than her paycheck. I worked with this gal at 2 different jobs but would call her more of an acquaintance than a friend and have never done anything outside of work. As soon as I hung up the phone I saw I had gotten a text message while I was talking to my friend. It was from the gal we were talking about just asking how I was doing and saying she missed me. She has never texted me before and must have texted right about the same time we were talking about her.
I was adding the murder of Jeanine Nicario to my Book of the Dead when someone knocked on my front door just now. It was my neighbor Jeannine.
Fishface wrote: "So today I was at a stoplight and noticed that the van to my right said "PDM MI" on it. John Gacy's construction company was called PDM."I thought to just look up PDM MI and see what it stands for. Package Design and Manufacturing. What a relief. And the driver of the van looked nothing like Gacy, I'll have you know.
So, as some of you that follow me on Facebook or through my Biography group know, I had to put my dog to sleep two days ago. We got him 13 years ago as a rescue. He had been dumped by someone along the road. I dont know how people can be that cruel. Anyway, he was definitely not a purebred but our vet believed he was part Bernese Mountain Dog and I thought maybe some Lab as he was had the color of a Bernese but the build of a Lab. Last night as I was reading Inside the O'Briens I read "He should be the proud owner of a Labrador or a Bernese Mountain Dog or an Akita. He agreed to getting a dog, a real dog, not a prissy little rat. He was not pleased." I had to laugh and think maybe my dog was sending a message. I always called little dogs 'sissy dogs' and said he could eat them for supper!
K.A. wrote: "Oh, so sorry about your pup!"Thank you. I sure didn't think it would be so hard. He didn't really have much quality of life the last few years. In the end it wasn't much of a decision. He had a major seizure on Sat. and on Mon. still could hardly walk. There is definitely an empty feeling in the house.
I know how it goes. Even when you know it's coming, it's so hard.
I just came across a coincidence written on a scrap of paper I left on the nightstand. It says "David, Glenda & David Manwarren Jr (Terry esc) 12/4/77." This was clearly a TC anniversary, but one that didn't ring any bells for me at all. I just came to the library and looked it up. Says here the killer was a guy named Robert Tanner, nicknamed "Beaver," who killed most of the Manwarren family. Dateline Battle Creek, Michigan: https://ididitforjodie.com/2016/12/24...And that killer's name sounded familiar, so I looked again for that name on Google. Sure enough, a Geo. Robert Tanner was one of the guys who killed Christopher Townsend in 2011 right in the town where I live: https://www.livingstondaily.com/story...
Ian Brady pointed this out in Ian Brady: The untold story of the Moors Murders. He said there is an Edward Hyde inside everyone -- being a serial killer, he would of course think so -- and it struck him that their last murder was of a kid named Edward that took place in a house in Hyde.
So this is the week I finally watched THE OMEN all the way through (I read the book in the 70s and never got around to the movie). I was quite pleased by the performance of Billie Whitelaw, who played the demonic nanny, Mrs. Baylock. I think they should have used her more.Well, a couple of days later as I was reading my way through Ian Brady: The untold story of the Moors Murders, I saw that the Tory Home Secretary in 1982, who made a public statement about how soon Myra Hindley might have a chance at getting paroled (to national howls of protest), was named William Whitelaw.
This seemed strange as it is not a town you dont hear about every day. This morning I saw that our president was in Missoula, Montana yesterday. ( I try not to watch because the sound of his voice is like chalk on a blackboard or eating aluminum foil). In the book I am reading now the character is living in Missoula, Montana.
Koren wrote: "This seemed strange as it is not a town you dont hear about every day. This morning I saw that our president was in Missoula, Montana yesterday. ( I try not to watch because the sound of his voice ..."Koren,
I am in total agreement with you about T-rump's voice.
And I can't stand to watch him talk, either. He has a small mouth and his lips are all pooched out like a petulant toddler's.
That's because he IS a petulant toddler.
Yep, volume goes on mute and/or channel gets changed when he comes on. I listen to a lot less news because it's all breathless reporting on the minutiae of tweets.
Erin Small wrote: "love it!I agree with everyone."
I've been turning the tv off more and turning music on. All the negative campaign ads are getting on my nerves. The station I listen to for news has a "verification' segment where they investigate campaign ads for truthfulness. Most of the time the ads contain at least some false information.
Reading Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy today, I was reading about a guy named Fayne McCauley on the anniversary of his death from an opioid addiction, Oct. 22, 2009.
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