5 Questions Forum

[How Brown]

Beginning this week, I am going to reimplement an old idea on a weekly basis on this forum.

Each week,a member will be asked 5 Ripper related questions. There's no obligation to answer them,of course....and if you would like to participate,please email me and tell me so.

So far,Dan Norder and Sir Bob have consented to answering the 5 questions I have set up for them. Thanks gentlemen.

Be sure to let me know,folks...

Thank you.

How

donston1888@aol.com

[Robert Linford]

I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.:laugh:

[Magpie]

Sounds like a great idea, How!

[ferret]

Mr Q -NOBODY does!!!!!!
OK Go on then................:fencing:

[How Brown]

I will be sending the '5 questions' to each of those who have kindly decided to participate in the thread and will be placing the old '5 questions' posts on this thread probably by Saturday morning.

Thanks to Don Souden for suggesting that these old ones also get placed here as well....I seem to have misplaced the ones replied to by Mr. Evans and Stan Russo...but the others are still available.

Thanks for your patience and the questions should be arriving shortly.

[How Brown]

So far...I have sent out the "5 Questions" to Magpie,Ferret,Sir Bob,Dan Norder, and Gavin Bromley. Thanks to these 5 folks for their desire to participate.

Anyone else?

[Robert Linford]

Ok How, but put me right at the back of the queue behind the above folks. And no hard questions like "Kosminski was the Ripper. Discuss."

[Bill]

I have always been a bit questionable - so feel free to count me in.

[Bob Hinton]

As long as they're not about cheese!

[Raven]

Hmmmmm? OK !:loco:

[How Brown]

Thanks to Mr.Hinton and also to Raven...I'll prepare some for you two immediately.

Robert...yours are in your p.m. box.

[ferret]

OK dunnit on the PM what happens now?

Hey Bob send me your questions????????? hehe bet they're the same hehe!!!!! :)

[Robert Linford]

You mean Howard actually got through to you???!!!

[ferret]

Astonishingly..........YES!!!!!!!

[How Brown]

Folks:

Thanks for all the participation on this 5 Questions Forum....it seems to be working out fine !

All you need to do,if you haven't done so,is drop me a p.m. and I'll be glad to put together 5 questions for you.

Next up on our list will be the legendary Monty....so why not give 'er a whirl?

Thanks again one and all !!

[How Brown]

On Sunday,which everyone knows is my birthday....I plan to put up as many of the response to the 5 Questions I sent out to certain individuals...

This feature is very well recieved on the Forums...and I hope that I can have at least 3 more in addition to the 3 I am in possession of now by Saturday.

To those I sent the request out to...please try and get back to me and I will send your 5 Questions a.s.a.p.

Thanks !

[Chris G.]

On Sunday,which everyone knows is my birthday....I plan to put up as many of the response to the 5 Questions I sent out to certain individuals...

This feature is very well recieved on the Forums...and I hope that I can have at least 3 more in addition to the 3 I am in possession of now by Saturday.

To those I sent the request out to...please try and get back to me and I will send your 5 Questions a.s.a.p.

Thanks !

Hi How

I have answered five questions from you before but I don't mind doing another round with you if you are willing. Let me know.

Chris

[How Brown]

It'll be my pleasure,C.G....and I will send them to you now in a p.m.

Thanks very much for helping out,sor.

[Robert Linford]

How, I'll answer another 5 if you like.

My suggestions :

1. When would you like me to send you the cake, Robert?

2. How much would you like from my wallet, Robert?

You get the drift.

[How Brown]

Despite the fact that no one really cares what you think, Robert....I'll go ahead and make 5 more for you.

I kid, I kid.

I'm the only one who cares about what you think...;)

[How Brown]

Lemme see...

I still need to collect Timmers', Sir Bob's..C.G.'s...Robert Linford's...Nina's...Mike Raney's...Jason's...Paul's...Paul Butler's...I have R.J.'s and will wait to amend the one question Rajah.

That makes 10 for Dec. 16th..

[Robert Linford]

Thanks How. Bliss is it to have a friend...but to have a friend who's the Forum's top captionist is very heaven.:eyebrows:

[How Brown]

Open invitation to anyone who wishes to participate in the 5 Questions Thread/Forum.

Thank you.

[How Brown]

Bump up...
Again...even if you've participated before, please don't let that stop you from responding again. In fact, I'll ask you questions as often as you would like to recieve and respond to them.

Thank you.

[How Brown]

Bump Up:

Read below,por favor....

[How Brown]

Bump up.....for the 5Q

Anyone interested,please let Mike,Jon,Tim or myself know...and we will accomodate.

[How Brown]

Time once more in this dreadfully cold and forbidding month of February ( This is one month that I can do without ) to sound the call for the dregs of Hell that comprise JTRForums to participate in a nice,warm,and friendly exchange of questions and answers in our 5 QUESTIONS WITH....

If you are up to 'em...so am I.

Thanks

[Magpie]

Always up for questions, How.

[How Brown]

My Brother from Another Mother:

Thanks amigo....I will get crackin' on a set for you. :kiss:

[WRITEFX]

Bump up.....for the 5Q

Anyone interested,please let Mike,Jon,Tim or myself know...and we will accomodate.


LOL

How, I dread to think what any guest to this forum might be thinking about reading your post.

Read back that last line - just like a kinky personal ad! :tape:

[Mike Covell]

LOL

How, I dread to think what any guest to this forum might be thinking about reading your post.

Read back that last line - just like a kinky personal ad! :tape:

Must bring own goat!:kiss:

[How Brown]

Dear WFX:

I don't know what "crackin' on a set" means over yonder...but what I meant was that I would get working on a set of questions for Magpie.

[WRITEFX]

Dear WFX:

I don't know what "crackin' on a set" means over yonder...but what I meant was that I would get working on a set of questions for Magpie.

LOL again, you read the wrong line How, it was this one -

Anyone interested,please let Mike,Jon,Tim or myself know...and we will accomodate


Mike understood it seems from his reply although I do wonder about him..............

[How Brown]

Oh,okay Write....my mistake.

I don't normally peruse those sort of ads, so thats why I was puzzled..

Not that you do either.

Mike does though.:kiss:

[How Brown]

Bump up.

Anyone who wishes to participate in the 5Q...you know what to do.

[How Brown]

Bump Up for volunteers for the 5Q:kiss:

Why not take some time and peruse John Malcolm's recent contributions and ask yourself...could I withstand 5Q from How Brown? Do I have the courage to face the Q-ster?

[Big Jon]

I don't mind having a go again.

Jon:

Give me until tomorrow to send 'em. I will have 5 good ones for you ( Ihope).

Thanks...

Anyone else?

[Mike Covell]

I'll have another pop. I wouldn't mind asking other forums members 5Q's too, and I am quite open to having other forums members asking me 5Q's too!:kiss:

[Currerbell]

I will volunteer!:high5:

[Chris G.]

I'll have another go-around, Howard.

Chris

[How Brown]

Thanks very much to Mike & Jon...Bell & C.G.

Give me a day to concoct 'em and I will get back to you.

By the way...if you get a chance...check out John Malcolm's 5Q series on the site.

Thanks again.

[Nemo]

I'll give it a go...

[Monty]

If you run out of people feel free to include me.

Monty
:)

[How Brown]

Montyzuma:

I would ask you 5Q every day until the Case is solved, but I know you are a busy man.

I will take you up on this and try to focus on some familiar turf.:kiss:

Thanks very much for pitching in,Monty Carlo

How

[How Brown]

Montpelier has been sent his 5Q...

Remember...I'm always happy to send you, dear Forums member, some Q's if you so desire. Anytime.:high5:

[How Brown]

Bump up

Calling all members who want to participate in the 5Q !!!!:)

[How Brown]

I'm putting together a 5Q with Mike Covell and for Tim Mosley....and a couple of others...such as Seattle's finest, Archaic...and Debbie D.

Anyone else care to participate?

[Debbie D]

I'm putting together a 5Q with Mike Covell and for Tim Mosley....and a couple of others...such as Seattle's finest, Archaic...and Debbie D.Anyone else care to participate?

Yikes! Another 5q's with little old me?
I think Carmine would like to answer 5 questions too.:kiss:

[How Brown]

Lets make a deal and don't let anyone else know about the following manuever,okay?

You be a little, shall we say ,"proprietor friendly" in the next caption judging...and I'll give Carmine some questions. The questions will be easy ones and not "ruff" ones.:)

Keep this between us.

[How Brown]

If anyone is up to a series of questions, even someone who doesn't know much like Tim Mosley, please let me know.

Thank you.:kiss:

[Big Jon]

Ladies and Gents, I have a propositition for you all. I say we turn the tables on Howard and ask him the questions!

If the Boss is willing and if anyone has a question they'd like to submit to ask him, PM me by Saturday night and the 5 best will get asked.

[How Brown]

Jon:

Sounds fine to me, pardner.:high5:

[Big Jon]

Last call for questions for Howard. I'll be sending them tomorrow, so if you have any questions PM me in the next few hours!

[How Brown]

Jon:

Psst...no questions relating to addin' & subtractin' with more than 2 digits, inquiries on how to behave on dates, probes into personal hygeine, or aid to the mediocrities ( all 202 of them ) in making superior captions. Thank you.:kiss:

[How Brown]

Thanks to Big Jon and those who helped him provide the questions. The response was too long to put in a p.m., Jon....so I just put it up on my own.
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1. How did you get interested in the Ripper & what do you hope to achieve with the JTR website?
　
I believe like many other people in our field that my interest was piqued when I came across the Maybrick book written by Mrs. Harrison. It was the instant when I saw the photo of Mary Kelly that something changed me on the spot. I remind myself every day of the terrible irony that all the wonderful things I have learned and been a part of, including my wife, are a direct result of a photograph of a murdered woman I wouldn't have thought twice about 121 years ago....as terrible as that might sound. I owe a great debt back to the victims for that fact.
　
What I hope that we achieve here is JTRForums being a permanent fixture in the field where people may come and use information found here or contribute to the volume of knowledge we've already provided to people in the community.


2. How many hours per week do you put into the site & what do you personally feel you get out of all your unpaid labour?
　
Making contacts & friends with individuals who share the same enthusiasm and satisfaction from learning is payment in full for me. I enjoy every facet that's involved with running the site...with the obvious occasional exception(s) which will occur because Ripperology is for the most part composed of a passionate collection of people with different tastes in other areas of life and not everyone is going to be on the same page even in our field.
　
I am constantly thinking ( at least) about the Case whether at home or at work and probably put 15-17 honest hours a day into it, even while at work. Yesterday, I woke up at 4 AM and went to bed at 2 AM, doing nothing other than reading related links or links that inevitably were not Ripper/LVP related and spending time bouncing ideas off of Nina . I wake up thinking about ideas I write down on notepads the night before ,everyday. I go to bed reading Ripper fiction or from the Ultimate Sourcebook to my wife every day. Every day.
　
I get more than what I put into the site, so I think I've been reimbursed several times over.


3. What new features do you see being added in the near future of the site?
　
Hopefully,when I replace all the wonderful jpeg/bitmap/pdf contributions from the various members with Photobucket or Flickr substitutes, I'd like to see more individuals initiate their own Forums and be in charge of presenting their own view of the Case from beginning to end.....because we won't have to worry about space or bandwidth load. For example, I have a "book" on D'Onston in my head, but its impossible for me to write it unless they extend the 24 hour day to 30 hours. Others may have the time to spend wisely on Ripper related presentations and if they use the Individual Forums to serve as an outline or sounding board for their overview of the Case, they may in turn be "ready' one day to have their work published as a result of the sharing of and dialogue...even criticisms... which may surface over the points which constitute their general theory.


4. Is there anything coming soon in the Ripper world (books, documentaries, other projects etc.) you are particularly looking forward to?
　
Hopefully improved JTRForums visual broadcasts surpassing the primitive ones Jon,Mike and I placed on YOU TUBE, or "in house" documentaries created by individuals within the community primarily on aspects of the Case for the mainstream. I think that we've seen a few of those already (such as the one produced by Richard Jones ) and the one featuring Phil Hutchinson & Lindsay Siviter in 2008...and they were high quality. I'm hoping for Mike Covell's work on Stephenson to appear in the next year or so. I am anticipating the upcoming new edition of the A to Z ...and looking forward to hearing what materializes out of the 2009 UK Convention. Tim Riordan's book on Tumblety and Gavin Bromley & Wolf Vanderlinden returning to writing on a regular basis. I'm really impressed with Helga Loewe, a young Ripperologist from Germany, who is not only enthusiastic, but imaginative and putting a lot of her time and effort into a project she's working on...along with Silverstealth, Nemo,Archaic and Jon Simons & Derann, the community's Videoperson, who do important work in their own unique ways . Of course, there's Jon Rees who is steadily learning the ropes and ins and outs of running a website...whether he wanted to or not. : )....and before I forget to mention them, the efforts of John Bennett outside of the Forums and SPE & Robert Clack inside the Forums...great ambassadors of Ripperology.
　



5. Is there any area of the case you think is currently being neglected, or under researched?
I certainly do but its not as if those areas which are under discussed will satisfactorily conclude or convince anyone of anything in terms of providing an answer to an unresolved issue. Six areas stand out to me, as follows, and not in order.
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1. Going to a repository in Britain : It would be such a good thing if a few London area members could get together and peruse the PRO armed with notepads or camera and work on one specific "thing" while there, in unison.
2. Article discussion : Its going to be a project of ours here either this year or in 2010 to bring up all the articles & content going back to the beginning of Ripperologist Magazine and rehash the unresolved issues from within those pages.
　
3. Aspect discussion: A lot of beneficial work has been done in this area when people discuss the (e.g.) Lighting in Mitre Square....the size and condition of the backyard fence in #27 Hanbury Street...reanalyzing the time of death of Mrs. Chapman...and so on. We need more of that I think. A lot more.
　
　
　
4. The Memory Hole : Where good threads go because no one is there to kick start them back to life. We need less of this down the road and attention paid to threads which seem to vanish in terms of interest despite their importance.
　
5. Use of the Individual Forums: We have what I feel is the unique ability on JTRForums to utilize numerous threads in the way each member wishes. I'd like to see some take advantage of that and use it for Ripper related purposes. Even I have failed to utilize them, but hopefully, as Mike Covell has done as one example, that will change in the future.

6. Embracing the masses: The interest of newcomers to the Case , even in this day and age when books like the Ultimate or The Facts are available and prominent, is still often found to be based on contact with the Masonic conspiracy line, the Cornwell-Sickert theory, and Maybrick affair or Hollywood films...even though less so than maybe 10 years ago. As the older Ripperologists appear less frequently on message boards....where many, not all, budding Ripperologists go to for their initial contact with us....we'll be counted on to provide answers and encourage new scholars & aficinados to the field. With the across the board cameraderie that exists like never before on the site...I think that will be an easy task.

Thanks again Jon.

[Stephen Thomas]

...and before I forget to mention them, the efforts of John Bennett outside of the Forums and SPE & Robert Clack inside the Forums...great ambassadors of Ripperology.
　




Mr Bennett is inside the Forums, Howard.

[How Brown]

Stephen:

I know that old bean...but what I was referring to was his work on the Wiki Project.

[Ultra Violet]

Thanks, How.

(You made me blush a little bit :embarassed:)

[How Brown]

Helga:

All I did was speak my mind and I think you deserve being mentioned for the project you're working on. We're getting older every day ( Ask Linford and Caz....:kiss:) and the field needs high quality young people in the future.

[Big Jon]

Thanks for answering these questions Howard, and thanks for all the hard work you put in every day to the running and maintenence of the site.

[Archaic]

Good job, Jon!

Oh, and uhhh... good job, How...



Just kidding. :high5: Good job, everyone!

[How Brown]

Bump Up time....You know the question...but whats the answer,mates?

[Debbie D]

5. Use of the Individual Forums: We have what I feel is the unique ability on JTRForums to utilize numerous threads in the way each member wishes. I'd like to see some take advantage of that and use it for Ripper related purposes. Even I have failed to utilize them, but hopefully, as Mike Covell has done as one example, that will change in the future.

I don't know about everyone else, but I was always under the impression that the individual forums were more for members non-ripper or off topic discussion and light hearted topics. :noidea:

I guess I need to wake up and pay attention.:doh::brick:

[How Brown]

Debbie:

They are for whatever the members wish....as long as it does not get into political areas,pornography,or peddling goods. The world of the Internet has enough of that mess already.

My wish is that some others would use it for Ripper related themes...such as the efforts by Robert Clack, Colin Roberts, Silverstealth and SPE.

If others do not wish to do so, thats fine.

Now get back to your caption judging.:playball:

[Archaic]

Hi, How.

I'm curious about this issue that Debbie has raised re: Ripper content on our Individual Forums.

I have made an effort to post all the LVP & Ripper-related content I come up with on the public boards, where it can be accessed by everyone, because whatever I post on my Indy Forum is private & for members only...

Can you please elaborate a bit on this point?

Is it OK with you if I put Ripper stuff on a members-only thread of my own & don't place it within a particular Forum category where it can be viewed by the public?

What exactly do you have in mind? Thanks.

[Debbie D]

Now get back to your caption judging.:playball:

Yes, sir. Don't forget to enter this week. It's a real squeal of a picture.:kiss:

[Robert Linford]

I'll keep my MP Watch going. It's not political - I hate the entire miserable, stupid, spineless lot of them.:laser:

[How Brown]

Bump up...

How about if we collate some questions of a non speculative nature and present them to Mr. B and Mr. E.....which you can do by sending them to me and I'll put together the best 5 for each gentleman ?

I know some of you are sooooooooooo busy that you can't find the time ( working hard to even compete with my superiorities at captions....I feel for you lot...)....but even if some of you can muster one out, that would be nice.

So dammit....do it !

Thanks:pray2:

[How Brown]

Bump up...

We've got Tom Wescott graciously working on a Double Event ( 10 questions for TW).....and hope to have his responses within a day or so.
They're not controversial ones...but then again ,I am working on another 10 for him.
Anyone who would like to participate, be sure to contact me and I will be glad to accomodate you.

[How Brown]

....and not to forget, we have a 5Q with the Debster....Debra Arif...in the works.:lock1::lock1::lock1::flame::flame::flame:

[Tom_Wescott]

Who the hell is Debra Arif?

[How Brown]

Bump Up.

In case anyone would like a set o' questions...even repeat offenders...just give me the word.

Thanks:)

[John Malcolm]

Me too?

[Big Jon]

I'll put my hand up and volunteer for some.

[How Brown]

Thanks to both of you...

Give me 5 minutes...and they'll be sent.

[Chris G.]

Who the hell is Debra Arif?

Who the hell is you, Tom Wescott? http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2545/3721359778_38a0fc7145_o.gif

Have no fear, old friend, I know you well... back to the days when you were Red Demon. I much prefer you under your own name. :becky:

All the best

Chris

[How Brown]

Bump Up :playball: