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@sharongooner wrote:
Judge sharongooner decrees cleverness should be banned from all message board posts on Sundays.
damn now I gotta be stoopid 7 days a week………
well I thought it was rather good of Shakespeare to namecheck such well-known JC posters.
ok sorry to Sharon for suggesting that she was an old fuddy-duddy bewhiskered judge (although it was an easy mistake to make), to ForgetMeNot who may not be a man of the cloth at all; to Pete who is not a distinguished scientist, to Cath who has never to my knowledge kept a house of ill-repute. And of course to Esme who does not make merry with Greek officers in orchards………..I think.
and I come up smelling of roses, well I did until that last post anyway.
Poor DOA, lucky sunny
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@sword wrote:
Can’t say I saw anything different today from any other game. Have to say, Peter is very correct. I think we believe refs always used to be better when the truth of the matter may well be that they never really changed, tv did.
Thats probably true. Of course the game used to be played at a slower pace, and although the refs are fitter now, I dare say the quality of their eyesight hasn’t improved that much. We can probably all agree that there was a lot more respect from players in the old days, grudging or otherwise, for the man in the middle.
Astounding amounts of money and media coverage make it a lot harder for refs to have the kind of good game when you hardly notice them, as almost everything becomes a talking point now. But Riley is poor.
Arsene Wenger has proposed two referees, operating in each half as in basketball. Given the increased speed and athleticism of the modern game that might be a better solution than goal-line judges.
Policemen who for several nights had kept watch on a house in Eastcheap had brought to light a very serious state of affairs, prosecuting counsel told magistrates at an East London court.
The evidence, he said, left no doubt that the house was in every sense of the word disorderly.
A particular disquieting feature was that Mrs Cath55, proprietress of the house in question and now in the dock, seemed to make a speciality of providing serving Army officers with what he could only describe as ‘wine, women and song’.WELL-KNOWN NAMES
Several officers who had not reported for duty at the proper time were later found to have been frequenting this particular establishment.
‘I would take this opportunity’, said counsel, ‘to warn the court that attempts are likely to be made by the defendant to suggest that the place was under distinguished patronage. It would, I submit, be grossly unfair if these people were allowed to drag in the mud the names of people well known in London Society.’
After some discussion the court gave leave for a young man whose name had been mentioned in connection with the case to be referred to as ‘Mr H’.CALLED HIM ‘CHEATER’
Cath55 said that one of the officers referred to had, in fact, been her fiance for many years. She admitted that on one occasion she had tried to have him arrested for breach of promise, as well as for money owing to her, but stated that this had been due to a misunderstanding.
Questioned about her alleged association with a Captain Pistol, Miss D.Tearsheet of the same address agreed that he had on several occasions attempted to interfere with her clothing, but she had witnesses to testify that she had called out to others in the room asking them ‘for God’s sake’ to ‘thrust him downstairs’.
She had also told the captain to his face that he was, in her opinion, ‘an abominable cheater’.The case was adjourned.
LOL
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‘These disgusting allegations against a distinguished scientist’ was counsel’s description of newspaper reports which were the subject of a libel action.
‘Poison pens and vulgar tittle-tattle’, continued counsel, ‘have been responsible for all this talk of “black magic”, and this so-called “island of vice”.’
He was amazed, he said, that any newspaper had dared to give such rumours currency.NIGHTMARE STUFF
The so-called ‘experiments’, involving a ‘monster’ and the young daughter of regular chat poster Professor Pete, had been perfectly normal scientific procedure. Moreover the daughter was now, he understood, happily married, and had been deeply distressed by the publication of these rumours, which might well be though to be such stuff as nightmares are made of.
She vaguely remembered a young man whom her father addressed as Ariel, but denied that he had ‘meant’ anything to her. She had considered him ‘effeminate’.‘If the Ministry of Health officials had shown a little more understanding, these two people would be alive today. Their action was bureaucracy run riot.’
In support of this allegation, the Reverend ForgetMeNot told the coroner that his curate, who was carrying a vital message to the young husband, had been forcibly detained on the ground that he had been in contact with an infectious disease.
‘NOT NICE’
Asked whether he had himself admitted that the letter was ‘not nice’, witness said he might have said something of the sort. He had, he said, been upset by the thought of a living corpse.’ being ‘enclosed in a dead man’s tomb’. The coroner said that was very natural.
The message, had it been delivered, would have done much to prevent a misunderstanding with most unfortunate consequences.
He agreed that he had himself officiated when the couple secretly went through a form of marriage at his house.
Asked ‘Why the secrecy?’ he said that there had been family objections to the marriage. He did not think that intimacy had taken place before the marriage.‘VERY MUCH IN LOVE’
‘But’, he added, ‘they were very much in love. So much that I refused to leave them alone in my study for even a few minutes before performing the ceremony.’A woman who had been in domestic service with the deceased girl’s parents described them as being of a violent disposition.
Described as a Turkish citizen, a man was recommended by magistrates for deportation after evidence had been given that he had encouraged the use of his orchard for immoral purposes.
A second charge, that he had lived on the immoral earnings of his niece, Esmeralda, the daughter of a clergyman, was dropped.
Agreeing that he was the author of the popular song ‘Love, love, nothing but love, Still more’, the defendant stated that he was acting in the best interests of his niece.
It was stated that Esmeralda had recently left the country to join an officer of the Greek Army. ‘Everybody called her Cressid,’ said her uncle.INTRODUCED TO OFFICERS
The defendant denied that he had received any monetary consideration for introducing his niece to Army officers. Esmeralda had spoken of them as her ‘fiances’ and he had allowed her the use of his orchard on that understanding.
He did not agree that on one occasion he had used the words ‘I will show you a chamber with a bed.’ He did not know how often intimacy had taken place between his niece and visting officers.
There were angry interruptions from officers in court during the cross-questioning of a witness who gave his name as Thersites, and was described as a journalist.Asked about the general moral tone of the camp concerned, he replied ‘Nothing but lechery. All incontinent varlets.’
Refusing to grant an injunction, Judge Sharongooner said last week that she had come to the conclusion while watching the behaviour of the female applicant in the box that the latter had a tendency to hysteria.
‘I believe’, she said, ‘that in cases where a woman remarries after her husband’s death, the child of the original marriage is often under a considerable stress.
‘But these things are merely passing, and I am confident that if the applicant and her husband exercise ordinary sympathy and common sense they will find that this young man will “play the game”.
‘I dare say you will all three have a good laugh over this later.’YOUTH WARNED
Turning to the son, Judge Sharongooner said, ‘Your mother seeks legal action to restrain you from uttering threats and menaces against herself and your step-father. She has said that you recently accused her of “honeying and making love over the nasty sty”.
‘I would remind you that your mother and stepfather are legally married, and that charges of this sort are entirely out of place. I am sure I can rely on you to behave yourself in future.’The son was understood to say, ‘That’s what you think, wait till Act Five,’ as he left the court.
HUSBAND’S OBSESSION
There was, it was stated at the inquest, no truth whatever in this allegation, but the husband became obsessed with the idea that his wife was carrying on an illicit relationship.
His attitude towards her completely changed. He abused her in obscene terms and on one occasion struck her.
Finally, after ordering her to get into bed, he left the house but returned almost immediately and, after a long tirade of abuse, smothered her.
In a statement later, he said that he had used this method because he did not like the idea of shedding her blood or making scars on her white skin.‘OLD BLACK RAM’
Without referring directly to either of the deceased, but using such terms as ‘old black ram’ and ‘white ewe’, they gave him to understand that immediate intervention on his part might still prevent consummation of the marriage.
Later he found that the girl had, in fact, gone to spend the night at her new husband’s lodging.
The father first assumed that his daughter had been hypnotised or was under the influence of some ‘sex drug’. It became clear, however, that she had been fascinated by the man’s ‘gift of the gab’.
The husband alleged that it was she who made the first advances.
The marriage had seemed to be going fairly smoothly until a man, at present in custody on various charges, known to the police as Iago or Jago, though probably neither is his correct name, mentioned to the husband that the wife had been unclothed ‘in bed an hour or more’ with a man friend.
