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"And all billiard players I shall have them play in a darkened dungon all with crooked cues and twisted shoes"This part of the letter struck me as very odd. It can be thought of as...
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Supposedly, one of the "suspects" was a person from the Vallejo Sheriffs Dept. who had stolen some crime scene photos of BRS. He was known as "Jack" in RG's book....
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That line is actually a paraphrase from The Mikado; a song sung by the Mikado. Here are the relevant lines:The billiard sharp whom any one catches,His doom's extremely hard,He's made to dwell,In a...
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The part of the original phrase that I still am not sure about is how he talks about "twisted shoes". What do twisted shoes have to do with pool? Unless he's talking about the cue...
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The part of the original phrase that I still am not sure about is how he talks about "twisted shoes". What do twisted shoes have to do with pool? Unless he's talking about the cue...
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I remember reading somewhere that it is believed that Z was obsessed with water and incorporated it into his crimes either by their location or names associated with the location. I don't know if this...
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Linking 'pool' with water is a nice touch, Jon. However, that bit about Zodiac being obsessed with water and incorporating it into his crimes through place names and locations was probably nothing...
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And would there being a link to water really help solve the case? Can you imagine the cops trying to find Z based on a water link? That one really always bugged me. But hey--the...
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I buy into the theory that Z had only HEARD the Mikado, didn't have a copy in front of him and never had performed it himself, and thus he misquotes it from memory, often with things that sound close...
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Linking 'pool' with water is a nice touch, Jon. However, that bit about Zodiac being obsessed with water and incorporating it into his crimes through place names and locations was probably nothing...
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That's not the half of it, Dave. He even tried to link a nearby fire hydrant to the 'water connection', too.
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I buy into the theory that Z had only HEARD the Mikado, didn't have a copy in front of him and never had performed it himself, and thus he misquotes it from memory, often with things that sound close...
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Of course there would of been instrumentalists at the operetta, Tahoe - there's musical accompaniment to all those spoken words and sung lyrics.I've only got one song from the Groucho Marx version of...
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Thanks Nacht--as you can tell, I don't go to musicals/operettas much! I was thinking with the Groucho version that the words might have been changed a bit for comedic(?) purposes.
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No problem, man. And as for the thought you mention, that's understandable - it is Groucho Marx we're talking about here, after all...
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I have the Groucho Marx album at home; I'll check it if I remember tonight (I forgot to do so last night).
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That's not the half of it, Dave. He even tried to link a nearby fire hydrant to the 'water connection', too.Okay, I need to change my avatar, though it's definitely a compliment to be mistaken for Dave
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What's this about avatars?--LOLThere were lots of pool halls in the North Beach area in 69. I think the writer's use of the pool references indicates he was well studied in the game of pool. Perhaps...
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