Posted on 03/02/2008 10:55:54 AM PST by BGHater
It was the Daily Telegraph, not the Times.
One of them at 11 across in the Telegraph puzzle was ‘MULBERRY’, with the clue ‘This bush is the centre of nursery revolutions’.
In Times 23,805, a puzzle that appeared in December 2007, the answer to 11 across was once again ‘MULBERRY’, this time with the clue ‘Harbour children go round in the cold’. I cannot believe this is not a witty allusion to what happened in 1944.
‘Mrs Duncan died in 1956, soon after being arrested again in a police raid on a seance.’
Kinda like the War on Drugs. Raid on a Seance. Thats crazy.
Once money changes hands, a seance goes from being a silly little game to a fraudulent enterprise in many jurisdictions.
In the US the laws regarding confidence games are somewhat grayer.
Hardly, I would say seances go back to biblical times.
Besides. If it does exchange money, it’s no worse than a poker game.
How long seances have been going on is a question immaterial to the point: a seance that charges money to participants is likely a confidence game.
So the question is: should confidence games be legal?
Besides. If it does exchange money, its no worse than a poker game.
It's much worse than a poker game. You can win a prize of actual value at a poker game, like the pot.
A seance with a participation fee is more like a fixed poker game than a normal poker game.
Ultimately it comes down to: where does a seance cross the line from being a form of entertainment to being a confidence game?
If someone is charging all and sundry - skeptics and believers alike - a few bucks, then it is probably just entertainment.
If someone is charging a thousand a head to a select few persons who have been chosen solely because they are emotionally vulnerable and desperate, then it's likely a confidence game.
And one of the main goals of any confidence artist is to try to tweak their con to stay just plausibly enough on the right side of the law.
We should ask Harry Potter if she was guilty.
We should ask Harry Potter if she was guilty.
You seem to forget the German Navy knew they sunk the Barham. If the British were motivated to keep it a secret for morale reasons, the Germans were motivated to brag for the same reason.
Churchill was right, it was utter tomfoolery. What can one do if Churchill couldn't. In Britain, the reasoned mind is up against a society that pays royal louts a fortune, champions homosexuals, lets in the Muslims and asks it citizens to learn dhimmitude, can't fix their teeth, ... I give up.
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NOW should be thanking their lucky stars we don’t have this here!
Well she does have a witches nose.
That film of the HMS Barham rolling over and exploding still gives me the willies and I've seen it off and on for 50 years!
was it water going into the stacks and into the boilers?
A fraud? Like our CO2, energy and clean air frauds? To each his own, I guess.
It sounds like this was actually a good law that was far ahead of its time.
Very famously they did not know if they sunk the Barham or not.
The U-Boat that fired the torpedoes hightailed it out of there, knowing that they had hit some ship in the flotilla but not that they had completely destroyed its crown jewel.
The German navy did not begin to suspect that the Barham had been destroyed until a few months later when they realized that U-331's November 25th sighting was the last visual the Reichsmarine actually had of that warship.
What happened to the witch of Endor?
Some rich moron here in NYC gave a psychic close to half a million to remove a curse on him. So for the feeble minded that believe this nonsense it can be a lot more then just a harmless poker game.
There were only three survivors from the HMS Hood when it was sunk by the Bismarck. They had been catapulted to the surface by an enormous gas bubble caused by the exploding boilers.
A Titanic survivor was sucked into one of the funnels as it sank and was pinned against a grate. When the incoming ice cold waters reached the boilers, the resulting explosion blasted him to the surface, where he somehow climbed onto flotsam and escaped death by exposure.
But I had never heard of the Barnham until now, nor that it was the one seen in the footage.
No wonder so many or her crew died.
After seeing that video it astounded me to read that 400 men of her 1250 man crew survived. I was expecting something terrible to the degree of HMS Hood.
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