Trivia For Our Inner Dummy

[Archaic]

Not sure that this is a close enough affiliation
(though someone recently claimed in a book that he was the Ripper)
is it that Dr Barnardo guy with all the charity homes?
Can't recall his first name; he did a lot of work for poor children.

Archaic

Trivia For The Evening..........

Most of us know that Sir Robert Anderson was affiliated with the Plymouth Brethren, a strict Christian sect.

Name another individual from our studies who was also affiliated in some way with those people.

[Howard Brown]

Archy:

No, Dr. Thomas Barnardo ( who, not surprisingly, has been suggested as a suspect in the WM ) is not the answer.

[Archaic]

plymouth brethren

But isn't that the group he belonged to, the Plymouth Brethren?

So now there is a 3rd Ripper personality involved with them? That's kind of weird.

They were some kind of early Dispensationalists, waiting for the Rapture....



:amen:

[Monty]

Aleister Crowley.

Barnardo was involved with them.....along with the Acid Bath murderer Haigh.

Monty

[Howard Brown]

Monty is right once more !

Crowley is the name that that was sought.

Thanks for the info on Barnardo & Haigh ,Monty.

Nice try Archy. You were right too.

[Currerbell]

How - please give those who havent been to Yale, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Eton etc etc a question that we may have a remote possibility of answering??????!!!!!

[Howard Brown]

Dear Bell:

I'm sorry if these questions have been a little tough. There's a good reason for that my dear...

I have only two goals in life,honey....one is to be a warm and passionate....understanding and caring...considerate and protective husband to whatsherface over here....and to perpetually stump Robert Linford in trivia contests and challenges. Here's one for you to consider:

Which Ripper suspect ( a modern one, not from 1888 as far as we know ) weighed ( thats right...weighed...) 79 pounds when he died ?

[Archaic]

How about some trivia for our Outer Dummies?

By the way, Monty, thanks for chiming in about Barnardo...but you should never confuse poor Howie with facts.

I know if I'd answered 'Crowley' he'd have said "Wrong- I was thinking of Barnardo." It's OK, I'm used to it.

*But wait...maybe our Glorious Leader DIDN'T KNOW that Dr Barnardo was also a member of the Plymouth Brethren?? Oops, sorry, heresy...Perish the thought.

>>Maybe Currerbell should get a chance to ask How some obscure trivia questions??

[Howard Brown]

Archy:

Unlike you, if I make a mistake or "miss a question"......I'll say..."Hey, I missed that question. My mistake". As a matter of fact, I didn't know Barnardo came from Plymouth Brethren. Thanks for pointing that out.

Why don't you answer the question I just placed....and show me something ?

[Sam Flynn]

How - please give those who havent been to Yale, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Eton etc etc a question that we may have a remote possibility of answering

Posh Wallace Greenslade attends a job interview at the BBC, and is surprised to see the dimwitted Eccles sitting outside the office, waiting to be called in...

Greenslade: Don't tell me you're applying for the position of BBC announcer!

Eccles: Oh yer! And I'll get da job, too. I'm wearin' my Cambridge tie!

Greenslade: You - YOU were at Cambridge?

Eccles: Yup!

Greenslade: What did you do at Cambridge?

Eccles: I bought dis tie.


(Spike Milligan, The Goon Show)

[Archaic]

Why don't you answer the question I just placed....and show me something ?

Because I honestly don't know the answer to this one, and if I google it I'm just demonstrating my ingenious ability to google, that's why!

But I'll take a STAB just to humor you, Oh Humorless One.


I know it's not Sutcliffe because he's still alive, so I'll guess... Karen Carpenter?

No, wait- Michael Jackson???

Archaic

[Sam Flynn]

Which Ripper suspect ( a modern one, not from 1888 as far as we know ) weighed ( thats right...weighed...) 79 pounds when he died ?

Joseph Merrick?

[Howard Brown]

Good try Sammy...but Jon Simons is correct !

Good going Jon....

Archaic..from you,those were good answers.

[Howard Brown]

Archy:

All kidding aside...I know you're a bright lady.

Here's a trivia question right up your alley. Its got to do with ...the horse...and the LVP...... and poop.

Stay off the Google.

In 1894...a writer for the Times ( Thats a newspaper,Archy)....stated that by the year 1944 ( or 50 years from 1894 ) that every street in London would be under ___ feet of horse poop if something wasn't done in time to alleviate the problem of horse manure in the Big Smoke ( London).

How many feet did he estimate, Archy ?

1. 0 feet....but 11 inches.

2. 2 feet of manure

3. 9 feet of manure.

4. None. I made this story up.

[Archaic]

Hey, I've actually heard of this one!

An ordinary (not large) 1,000 lb horse can produce 35 lbs of manure a day- almost as much as Mr Brown can- so I will go with the largest number.

50 years = a real lotta Road Apples. (technical term, sorry)

My answer is 9 feet.
Archaic

PS: What kind of a guy would actually want to calculate 50 years of horse sh*t???