tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411865498121175202.post1720074076598186601..comments2022-11-25T03:59:47.044-07:00Comments on Wounded Bird Takes Flight: Houston, we have contact...June Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411865498121175202.post-83793404218986522872009-03-20T17:45:00.000-06:002009-03-20T17:45:00.000-06:00The hour free scheme should be for the tax paying ...The hour free scheme should be for the tax paying English - not for bloody foreigners. I don't know, bloomin' Americans - over sexed, over paid, over here and hogging the free computers!MadPriesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120376342802143188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411865498121175202.post-84999544522820500662009-03-20T14:37:00.000-06:002009-03-20T14:37:00.000-06:00Maybe Mimi has really gone to Leeds to coach their...Maybe Mimi has really gone to Leeds to coach their <A HREF="http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0320/thedamnedunited.html" REL="nofollow">football team</A>?Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287169546184325690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411865498121175202.post-19867526355532718162009-03-20T14:23:00.000-06:002009-03-20T14:23:00.000-06:00Mimi, this from the BR Morning Advocate Thursday:M...Mimi, this from the BR Morning Advocate Thursday:<BR/><BR/>More uprising over Gov. Jindal’s decision to turn down $98 million in unemployment benefits for Louisiana<BR/>March 19, 2009<BR/><BR/>On the steps of the State Capitol Wednesday, another group of Louisiana citizens voiced their strong opposition to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s decision to turn down $98 million in unemployment benefits for the state. Led by AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers representatives, the gathering showed how real lives are being affected by our struggling economy – and why unemployment benefits are crucial to helping people who need help the most.<BR/><BR/>Miss you in Crapaudville! Have fun!We' Po' Now, Crapaud!https://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411865498121175202.post-89514570124155828052009-03-20T12:14:00.000-06:002009-03-20T12:14:00.000-06:00Enjoy yourself - and see you in a week ;=)Enjoy yourself - and see you in a week ;=)Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411865498121175202.post-69947787986837724092009-03-20T09:46:00.000-06:002009-03-20T09:46:00.000-06:00Grandmère Mimi, PLEASE, don´t forget Mary Bateman,...Grandmère Mimi, PLEASE, don´t forget Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch (whose remains are still available where you are visiting for checking and scrutinizing for secret messages passed down through the sages).<BR/><BR/>1809: Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch<BR/>March 20th, 2009 Headsman <BR/><BR/>It’s the bicentennial today of the unnatural passing of the Yorkshire witch.<BR/><BR/>Mary Bateman ran her fraudulent fortune-telling business under the name “Mrs. Moore”, and had some years’ success separating fools from their money without running afoul of the law.<BR/><BR/>In fact, she outlived her fatal crime — plying with poisoned puddings a bilked couple, lest they realize their medium was defrauding them — by months, even continuing to leach money off the surviving husband after her ministrations had killed the wife.<BR/><BR/>Let’s just say she knew how to pick her clientele.<BR/><BR/>When the sucker finally got wise to the scam,* the jig was up for Mary in a sensational trial. (It’s recounted at length here — and capped by what must have a grimly comic spectacle when Mary attempted to plead her belly and the women in the courtroom bolted for the exits to avoid impaneling on a jury of matrons to adjudge the claim. The judge ordered the doors shut up before his jury pool could escape.)<BR/><BR/>Three days after conviction, she was hanged at York Castle before a crowd of thousands, who subsequently paid (.pdf) to see her corpse (and to get cured cuts of her skin as charms: even unto death, Mary had ‘em swallowing her snake oil).<BR/><BR/>After execution, Mary Bateman’s body was given over for dissection in Leeds — remaining a curio worthy of public preservation to this day at that city’s Thackray Medical Museum.<BR/><BR/>* Source of enlightenment? Not the death of his wife, but the fact that magical financial windfalls promised by the Yorkshire witch had failed to materialize after two-plus years of paying her.¨<BR/><BR/>Details, I know you´ll want them are available at: <BR/><BR/>http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/03/20/1809-mary-bateman-the-yorkshire-witch/Leonardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667415590825321701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411865498121175202.post-28027810905207650692009-03-20T08:22:00.000-06:002009-03-20T08:22:00.000-06:00Grandmère Mimi,Don´t forget the Roast Beef and Yor...Grandmère Mimi,<BR/><BR/>Don´t forget the Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding (lots of Brown Gravy)!<BR/><BR/>Hope you have time to visit York and the Cathedral!<BR/><BR/>Wow! Hope you packed a ¨period¨ costume for the trip back in time so they won´t string you up on the Gate!<BR/><BR/>ENJOY! My Dad was from Hull, Yorkshire and I´ve been Yorkshired properly...it´s a good thing!Leonardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667415590825321701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411865498121175202.post-2013948608964387332009-03-20T08:19:00.000-06:002009-03-20T08:19:00.000-06:00Sounds lovely, Mimi, and par for the course on the...Sounds lovely, Mimi, and par for the course on the sleeping thing. Glad you have a phone.susan s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03679099677585214433noreply@blogger.com