Many thanks for linking to my article this week. A great roundup all-around!
Curmudgeon
· 1 year ago
Silly people, everyone knows from T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men how the world will end ("Not with a bang but a whimper").
On another note, you will be amazed at how many people no longer remember D.B. Cooper, even with the recent false reports of his discovery. You may have to provide a guide to folklore as a part of your postings.
Ron@TheWisdomJournal
· 1 year ago
@Curmudgeon Didn't they find that he (DBC) died recently after living a double life?
Curmudgeon
· 1 year ago
@Ron - At the end of March, some kids found a parachute buried in a field near the Washington-Oregon border. The FBI was called in, and after about a week announced that it wasn't D.B. Cooper's chute. I hadn't heard the story that he died and his identity was revealed; do you have a reference?
Ron@TheWisdomJournal
· 1 year ago
@Curmudgeon I saw a History Channel show about it that had a lady claiming to be his wife. Supposedly, he confessed his crime before he died. The physical description matched very well and there were some other uncanny things that matched (can't remember all of them though). It may or may not have been him, but everything he told her would have made sense given the circumstances.
Given our celebrity-obsessed culture, DB would have to have nerves of steel not to have revealed himself by now. He would be a guest on every talk show on earth and probably get away with serving 3 months in prison by now.
And Curmudgeon, I do try to throw a few pop-culture references in there to get heads-a-scratchin' sometimes, especially if I didn't know the reference until a few days earlier myself :)
Ah, Eliot. I haven't read The Hollow Men since college, but when I looked at Wikipedia I saw this little interesting bit: "Perhaps most revealing, though, is Eliot's response, a 'no', when asked if he would write these lines again: One reason is that while the association of the H-bomb is irrelevant to it, it would today come to everyone's mind. Another is that he is not sure the world will end with either. People whose houses were bombed have told him they don't remember hearing anything." Apparently it actually referred to Guy Fawke's whimpering when executed. Who knew? Learn something new every day.
Wikipedia (if it's actually true more than 90% of the time) is fascinating.
Curmudgeon
· 1 year ago
@Steve - Don't forget to check out the Wikipedia discussion tab. If you're not sure of the accuracy, you can almost always get others' opinions. I have British acquaintances who still celebrate Guy Fawkes Day.
@Ron - Thanks for the story and the link. There used to be a DB Cooper restaurant in my town that celebrated the folklore. They turned it into a Hooters several years ago (sigh . . .).
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Thanks for the link!
On another note, you will be amazed at how many people no longer remember D.B. Cooper, even with the recent false reports of his discovery. You may have to provide a guide to folklore as a part of your postings.
Didn't they find that he (DBC) died recently after living a double life?
I saw a History Channel show about it that had a lady claiming to be his wife. Supposedly, he confessed his crime before he died. The physical description matched very well and there were some other uncanny things that matched (can't remember all of them though). It may or may not have been him, but everything he told her would have made sense given the circumstances.
Found this link:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/myster...
And Curmudgeon, I do try to throw a few pop-culture references in there to get heads-a-scratchin' sometimes, especially if I didn't know the reference until a few days earlier myself :)
Ah, Eliot. I haven't read The Hollow Men since college, but when I looked at Wikipedia I saw this little interesting bit: "Perhaps most revealing, though, is Eliot's response, a 'no', when asked if he would write these lines again: One reason is that while the association of the H-bomb is irrelevant to it, it would today come to everyone's mind. Another is that he is not sure the world will end with either. People whose houses were bombed have told him they don't remember hearing anything." Apparently it actually referred to Guy Fawke's whimpering when executed. Who knew? Learn something new every day.
Wikipedia (if it's actually true more than 90% of the time) is fascinating.
@Ron - Thanks for the story and the link. There used to be a DB Cooper restaurant in my town that celebrated the folklore. They turned it into a Hooters several years ago (sigh . . .).