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PaladinPhil
12/1/2019 8:47:53 AM
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Well, the snow storm has hit up here. Coming down pretty heavily. Lovely wife is on the way back from her weekend away. Waiting on tenter hooks here until she shows up at the door. Some stretches of highway are pretty nasty from my experience.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/1/2019 8:54:26 AM
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In #6 lucius septimius said: Emil und die Detektiven -- standard third-year German story. Read that in translation as a kid; wish I still had that copy, as it had great line illustrations. Erich Kastner also wrote "Lotte and Lisa," which (much altered) became the Disney film "The Parent Trap." It is my understanding Kastner had to flee the Nazis in part because of "Emil and the Detectives"; something or other in it was deemed politically suspect---possibly the mere fact of a gang of street urchins solving a crime instead of the police. Fritz Lang's film "M," in which Peter Lorre portrayed a child-murderer, also fell afoul of the Nazis---partly because of the intercutting which equated the criminal underworld with the police in the scenes where both are making plans to catch the murderer, partly because of a line about how "a criminal can terrify millions," or something of the sort, which the Nazis took to be an oblique reference to Hitler; partly because, even though Lorre's character targets little girls, the children's verse which opens the film is an alteration of a verse that alluded to Harmann, the Ogre of Hanover, a homosexual serial killer who, in the years of the Inflation, passed himself off as a policeman, picked up vagrant boys at the train station and, after having sex with them, butchered them and sold their flesh as pork on the black market. |
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JCM
12/1/2019 10:13:48 AM
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Thanksgiving on the Coast
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Spent Thanksgiving out on the Washington Coast. No 'net service, barely cell service. Beautiful clear but cold weather. Had a great time.
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Occasional Reader
12/1/2019 10:56:03 AM
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In #2 buzzsawmonkey said: picked up vagrant boys at the train station and, after having sex with them, butchered them and sold their flesh as pork on the black market. Hey, nobody’s perfect.
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Occasional Reader
12/1/2019 10:58:09 AM
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Having dropped off Little OR with his mom (after going with them both to get a Christmas tree), I am now “off duty“ having lunch, and ready to pretty much sleep for the rest of the day. Thanksgiving trip with little man was wonderful, but absolutely exhausting.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/1/2019 11:34:51 AM
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In #4 Occasional Reader said: Hey, nobody’s perfect. I learned about Harmann from William Bolitho's fascinating book "Murder for Profit," which discusses the cases of Harmann, George Smith (the "brides in the bath" killer), Landru, and several other serial killers.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/1/2019 12:18:07 PM
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In #2 buzzsawmonkey said: picked up vagrant boys at the train station and, after having sex with them, butchered them and sold their flesh as pork on the black market. Much more giving than Dahmner, who kept all of it for himself////////////////////////
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Kosh's Shadow
12/1/2019 1:21:48 PM
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If you get a File Not Found, it means the server logged you out. Log in again,
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buzzsawmonkey
12/1/2019 1:31:35 PM
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In #8 Kosh's Shadow said: Dahmner The Jeffrey ladder has gotter Dahmer rung...
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PaladinPhil
12/1/2019 1:45:07 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 9: Wondered about that, and corrected it as you suggest. Been having power issues this afternoon and figured that was the issue instead.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/1/2019 1:54:36 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 10: Reminds me, there should be an opera about the Nuremberg trials, using the music of Richard Wagner's The Meistersingers von Nurnberg. It would be called "The Master-racers of Nuremberg"
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Kosh's Shadow
12/1/2019 3:20:19 PM
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asp.Net identity is a pain in the behind. Still don't have reset password working
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buzzsawmonkey
12/1/2019 4:11:28 PM
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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: asp.Net
If it's any comfort, Cleopatra had her problems with asps, too.
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