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[Tybre]

Just going to push it from my mind.

So then, anyone else hear the Canadians are predicting another Little Ice Age? Personally I'm quite hopeful we have another one. Always enjoyed the cooler weather, and everything I've ever heard about the last seems so fun. Mind you I'm not sure I'd go holding any Thames frost fairs in this day and age. Heaven knows what's under that ice.

In the Thames?

Jack the Ripper I think.

You know I'm personally a proponent of the little-circulated theory (which has been gaining some attention since its recent inclusion in a video game) that it was Jacob Levy, a local butcher who seemed to have been quite mentally unwell and had a few traits common of serial killers. Plus, his being a butcher helps support his killings. If he comes home late covered in blood or is seen in the streets covered in blood or with bloodied equipment, people wouldn't think anything of it. After all, the man carves meat for a living! Have to find the full file on him again.

(I did alter my answer a bit since you quoted me, sorry)
Too many killers in the broth so to speak. Could be him.
But one thing, the carving of the body was meticulous like a surgeon's. Having been on the Ripper Walk a few times and to the Black Museum at Scotters I have a few theories. Won't bore you with those.

Oh certainly there are other theories, and I am open to all of them. Even the more ludicrous ones such as Prince Albert and Lewis Carroll. However, I feel Levy is one of the more plausible suspects, and in fact the only major thing going against him is that he was a rather unremarkable man, ergo not much data exists on his life, and the police paid little mind to him at the time, ergo the police information on him is scant. If there were a way to find out more about Levy, it may well help catapult him into the list of the highly considered or into the list of the completely bogus, but alas it seems the only way is a time machine, and if I had a time machine I would take it upon myself to preempt one of Jack's killings, try to catch him in the deed. Just take care to arm myself with a working Webley or two first. And probably a bit of kevlar beneath the period dress. After all, who's to say he didn't keep a revolver on him? And even if he only had carving instruments, the fellow could still take a stab at me. Ah, but it's a fruitless dream...

[danslittlefinger]

Just going to push it from my mind.

So then, anyone else hear the Canadians are predicting another Little Ice Age? Personally I'm quite hopeful we have another one. Always enjoyed the cooler weather, and everything I've ever heard about the last seems so fun. Mind you I'm not sure I'd go holding any Thames frost fairs in this day and age. Heaven knows what's under that ice.

In the Thames?

Jack the Ripper I think.

You know I'm personally a proponent of the little-circulated theory (which has been gaining some attention since its recent inclusion in a video game) that it was Jacob Levy, a local butcher who seemed to have been quite mentally unwell and had a few traits common of serial killers. Plus, his being a butcher helps support his killings. If he comes home late covered in blood or is seen in the streets covered in blood or with bloodied equipment, people wouldn't think anything of it. After all, the man carves meat for a living! Have to find the full file on him again.

(I did alter my answer a bit since you quoted me, sorry)
Too many killers in the broth so to speak. Could be him.
But one thing, the carving of the body was meticulous like a surgeon's. Having been on the Ripper Walk a few times and to the Black Museum at Scotters I have a few theories. Won't bore you with those.

Oh certainly there are other theories, and I am open to all of them. Even the more ludicrous ones such as Prince Albert and Lewis Carroll. However, I feel Levy is one of the more plausible suspects, and in fact the only major thing going against him is that he was a rather unremarkable man, ergo not much data exists on his life, and the police paid little mind to him at the time, ergo the police information on him is scant. If there were a way to find out more about Levy, it may well help catapult him into the list of the highly considered or into the list of the completely bogus, but alas it seems the only way is a time machine, and if I had a time machine I would take it upon myself to preempt one of Jack's killings, try to catch him in the deed. Just take care to arm myself with a working Webley or two first. And probably a bit of kevlar beneath the period dress. After all, who's to say he didn't keep a revolver on him? And even if he only had carving instruments, the fellow could still take a stab at me. Ah, but it's a fruitless dream...

Not thought about it much then?

But seriously, having stood inside the actual room of M J Kelly and reliving the moment, the mind spins.
Seen the pics?

[Tybre]

Granted I don't pay as much mind to the Ripper case, as I feel it's become far too convoluted with time, but I still pay it a fair deal of mind. I'm curious, though, who do you think did it then, or who would you peg as chief suspects if you don't have anyone in mind? I'm still inclined to go to Levy and the two or three other butchers who have been suggested over the years. Fits too comfortably, perhaps, but it is, after all, the simple cases which most often present the most wild bends, and the most fantastical cases which are most often rather clean-cut.

[danslittlefinger]

Granted I don't pay as much mind to the Ripper case, as I feel it's become far too convoluted with time, but I still pay it a fair deal of mind. I'm curious, though, who do you think did it then, or who would you peg as chief suspects if you don't have anyone in mind? I'm still inclined to go to Levy and the two or three other butchers who have been suggested over the years. Fits too comfortably, perhaps, but it is, after all, the simple cases which most often present the most wild bends, and the most fantastical cases which are most often rather clean-cut.

George Chapman aka Severin Kowloski - Polish guy.

Came from a fairly well to do background, studied being a surgeon in Poland, believed he eventually was hung for poisoning a woman/multiple murders. Scotters just couldnt pin the Ripper ones on him.
He lived in Whitechapel.

[Tybre]

The surgical nature of some of the wounds and the removal of the organs, though, does not necessarily imply that it was a surgeon. Butchers remove organs from corpses for separate sale and preparation from the flesh. Butchers also have to take care when dividing up a body and removing organs. Of course, not saying you're wrong, and certainly there is credence to it, but I feel like focusing on things of surgical nature is a mistake. Now, he was also a barber and hair dresser, which means he would have had another job which required a deft blade hand. So certainly the skill for killing is there. However, so far as I can recall at the moment (not pulling up his file right now, perhaps tomorrow) there appears to be no genuine motive for the murder of prostitutes. Indeed, that does not mean he didn't do it, it just makes it a bit harder to say "Yes, this gentleman here". He was unfaithful in his marriage, if I recall, but I do not believe he had just cause to murder several women of poor birth, perhaps other than he was a loon. Chapman did, however, utilize a slow-acting and agonizing poison on one of his lovers, I think perhaps more than one. Indeed, killers may change their MO. It certainly helps them avoid their capture. However, most killers are not intelligent enough to do this -- even uncaptured serial killers like the Zodiac and the Ripper used more or less the same basic method -- and they fall into the trap Poirot describes in the Murder on the Links; that is, humans are creatures of habit, and they assume if I go scot-free for killing a woman this way once, I will get away with killing another woman in the same manner. And, again playing by memory, he immigrated to London not long before the murders started; a year at best. Upper-class or no, the Ripper was said to have conversed in "an educated manner". I doubt such a recent arrival to the country, unless he were royalty, would be able to speak such good English, and apparently unaccented, for surely someone would have detected a hint of foreign accent in the voice, oui? I'll have to do some more digging, as I'm afraid my memory isn't the most reliable thing here re:Chapman, but I believe while the cursory pieces fit, either he was very good at hiding the truth while maintaining his status as a murderer, or he was just a man suspected unjustly who happened to be a murderer. I believe it may be the latter, but I will rule out no suspect until a man can be definitely proven. Hence my continued consideration of even the most ludicrous of suspects. It may be wild to the point of near impossibility, but that doesn't make it impossible.

/walloftext

[danslittlefinger]

The surgical nature of some of the wounds and the removal of the organs, though, does not necessarily imply that it was a surgeon. Butchers remove organs from corpses for separate sale and preparation from the flesh. Butchers also have to take care when dividing up a body and removing organs. Of course, not saying you're wrong, and certainly there is credence to it, but I feel like focusing on things of surgical nature is a mistake. Now, he was also a barber and hair dresser, which means he would have had another job which required a deft blade hand. So certainly the skill for killing is there. However, so far as I can recall at the moment (not pulling up his file right now, perhaps tomorrow) there appears to be no genuine motive for the murder of prostitutes. Indeed, that does not mean he didn't do it, it just makes it a bit harder to say "Yes, this gentleman here". He was unfaithful in his marriage, if I recall, but I do not believe he had just cause to murder several women of poor birth, perhaps other than he was a loon. Chapman did, however, utilize a slow-acting and agonizing poison on one of his lovers, I think perhaps more than one. Indeed, killers may change their MO. It certainly helps them avoid their capture. However, most killers are not intelligent enough to do this -- even uncaptured serial killers like the Zodiac and the Ripper used more or less the same basic method -- and they fall into the trap Poirot describes in the Murder on the Links; that is, humans are creatures of habit, and they assume if I go scot-free for killing a woman this way once, I will get away with killing another woman in the same manner. And, again playing by memory, he immigrated to London not long before the murders started; a year at best. Upper-class or no, the Ripper was said to have conversed in "an educated manner". I doubt such a recent arrival to the country, unless he were royalty, would be able to speak such good English, and apparently unaccented, for surely someone would have detected a hint of foreign accent in the voice, oui? I'll have to do some more digging, as I'm afraid my memory isn't the most reliable thing here re:Chapman, but I believe while the cursory pieces fit, either he was very good at hiding the truth while maintaining his status as a murderer, or he was just a man suspected unjustly who happened to be a murderer. I believe it may be the latter, but I will rule out no suspect until a man can be definitely proven. Hence my continued consideration of even the most ludicrous of suspects. It may be wild to the point of near impossibility, but that doesn't make it impossible.

/walloftext

Indeed and your relevant points is why they failed to find the man (or men but that is another copycat theory).

Remember the "S" scrawled on the wall. Important red herring.

TBH I go in between Chapman and the Queens' private surgeon, Can't remember the name but the files were locked for 99 years due to high class people being involved plus the P Minister of the time.
They had evidence of it being this guy.

[Tybre]

You know I never did like the phrase serial killer. Don't know why but I find the old fashioned "multiple murderer" so much more pleasing to the ear. And curse my body for beginning to grow tired! This is, quite honestly, the most engaging discussion I can recall having since, oh, August. Maybe early September.. Very nearly had a wonderful discussion with an Orthodox priest earlier this afternoon, but being that he left pretty much as soon as class was over and class is only about an hour long and he spent time answering other peoples' questions before getting to me, we didn't really have time to let the debate get off the ground. Pity, that. But I suppose it's a good thing. I enjoy debate, and I like it when it really starts getting involved and detailed, but generally by the time it gets to that point I'm tired of arguing and need a good twelve or so hours to myself to unwind. Ironic, that, I suppose. And I'm rambling again. Ramble ramble ramble. Only ever do that online for some reason.

Edit:

It being the Queen's surgeon...I have mixed feelings about. Admittedly it was slightly muddied for me because I was first introduced to it by Alan Moore, and anyone familiar with that particular work...it's entertaining but nothing more. There is some credence to it, but I dunno, I've just always felt it isn't the right answer. I think, perhaps, the largest reason so many people consider Gull is the drama of "the Queen's doctor did it" is too good to pass up, especially to writers.

[danslittlefinger]

Love the whole Ripper theory and could go on for hours but I won't.
Nice to find another so interested.

You would love the Ripper Walk in London. They take you around at night and walk down the alleys to all the murder spots then, on this particular walk, I ended up in the "Ripper" pub - The Ten Bells in Spitalfields, and had a few jars with the docent.

Asked him who he thought and he said "Couldn't give a toss mate, the tips help pay me leccy (electric) bill" and yes, he was from Liverpool.

Kind of did it for me.

EDIT: Not that he was a Scouser, but that he didn't give a rat's a r s e.

[Tybre]

Not typing all of that back out now. Damn Safari crashing just as I was mid-post.

[danslittlefinger]

Not typing all of that back out now. Damn Safari crashing just as I was mid-post.

Maybe a hint to call it a night or early morning in my case.
Nice chat Tybre. Cheers.

[Tybre]

Not typing all of that back out now. Damn Safari crashing just as I was mid-post.

Maybe a hint to call it a night or early morning in my case.
Nice chat Tybre. Cheers.

lol sorry, I just get frustrated with the browser sometimes.
And aye, good night. I'm off to bed myself in a moment, actually. Just going to fetch a glass of water and use the toilet and then it's sleep.

[danslittlefinger]

Not typing all of that back out now. Damn Safari crashing just as I was mid-post.

Maybe a hint to call it a night or early morning in my case.
Nice chat Tybre. Cheers.

lol sorry, I just get frustrated with the browser sometimes.
And aye, good night. I'm off to bed myself in a moment, actually. Just going to fetch a glass of water and use the toilet and then it's sleep.

Sounds like a plan, almost Bond like in it's monastic simplicity.

Sleep well.

[Cruiserweight]

Mr.Blofeld,don't mess with the True Blood!

[Mr. Blofeld]

Just going to push it from my mind.

So then, anyone else hear the Canadians are predicting another Little Ice Age? Personally I'm quite hopeful we have another one. Always enjoyed the cooler weather, and everything I've ever heard about the last seems so fun. Mind you I'm not sure I'd go holding any Thames frost fairs in this day and age. Heaven knows what's under that ice.

In the Thames?

Jack the Ripper I think.

You know I'm personally a proponent of the little-circulated theory (which has been gaining some attention since its recent inclusion in a video game) that it was Jacob Levy, a local butcher who seemed to have been quite mentally unwell and had a few traits common of serial killers. Plus, his being a butcher helps support his killings. If he comes home late covered in blood or is seen in the streets covered in blood or with bloodied equipment, people wouldn't think anything of it. After all, the man carves meat for a living! Have to find the full file on him again.

Here and here. Poor chap is so often overlooked.

Pardon me for sticking my head in, here, but what about James Kelly? After Jacob Levy (and, possibly, David Cohen), he's the most likely obscure suspect, in my book.

[Tybre]

Just going to push it from my mind.

So then, anyone else hear the Canadians are predicting another Little Ice Age? Personally I'm quite hopeful we have another one. Always enjoyed the cooler weather, and everything I've ever heard about the last seems so fun. Mind you I'm not sure I'd go holding any Thames frost fairs in this day and age. Heaven knows what's under that ice.

In the Thames?

Jack the Ripper I think.

You know I'm personally a proponent of the little-circulated theory (which has been gaining some attention since its recent inclusion in a video game) that it was Jacob Levy, a local butcher who seemed to have been quite mentally unwell and had a few traits common of serial killers. Plus, his being a butcher helps support his killings. If he comes home late covered in blood or is seen in the streets covered in blood or with bloodied equipment, people wouldn't think anything of it. After all, the man carves meat for a living! Have to find the full file on him again.

Here and here. Poor chap is so often overlooked.

Pardon me for sticking my head in, here, but what about James Kelly? After Jacob Levy (and, possibly, David Cohen), he's the most likely obscure suspect, in my book.

Cohen isn't that overlooked, at least in my experience. But then I've never made conversations regarding uncaught murderers with laymen before. Generally the common man finds discussion regarding such things...unsettling, in my experience. Used to try...never ended well...

Kelly, I've never given much credence to. Mostly because there's nothing to him, really. Sure, there are some things to connect him to the murders that make it plausible, and as I've said I will never entirely rule anyone out, but Kelly is grouped not far above the likes of Lewis Carroll. Now, if someone were to uncover something that were to say, yes he was in or near London in 1888, or some other thing that could lend credence to it, I would certainly move the theory up a bit, but as it is now, Kelly has no sufficient grounds for being the Ripper in my book. A lunatic murderer, yes. Jack the Ripper? I doubt it.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Just going to push it from my mind.

So then, anyone else hear the Canadians are predicting another Little Ice Age? Personally I'm quite hopeful we have another one. Always enjoyed the cooler weather, and everything I've ever heard about the last seems so fun. Mind you I'm not sure I'd go holding any Thames frost fairs in this day and age. Heaven knows what's under that ice.

In the Thames?

Jack the Ripper I think.

You know I'm personally a proponent of the little-circulated theory (which has been gaining some attention since its recent inclusion in a video game) that it was Jacob Levy, a local butcher who seemed to have been quite mentally unwell and had a few traits common of serial killers. Plus, his being a butcher helps support his killings. If he comes home late covered in blood or is seen in the streets covered in blood or with bloodied equipment, people wouldn't think anything of it. After all, the man carves meat for a living! Have to find the full file on him again.

Here and here. Poor chap is so often overlooked.

Pardon me for sticking my head in, here, but what about James Kelly? After Jacob Levy (and, possibly, David Cohen), he's the most likely obscure suspect, in my book.

Cohen isn't that overlooked, at least in my experience. But then I've never made conversations regarding uncaught murderers with laymen before. Generally the common man finds discussion regarding such things...unsettling, in my experience. Used to try...never ended well...

Kelly, I've never given much credence to. Mostly because there's nothing to him, really. Sure, there are some things to connect him to the murders that make it plausible, and as I've said I will never entirely rule anyone out, but Kelly is grouped not far above the likes of Lewis Carroll. Now, if someone were to uncover something that were to say, yes he was in or near London in 1888, or some other thing that could lend credence to it, I would certainly move the theory up a bit, but as it is now, Kelly has no sufficient grounds for being the Ripper in my book. A lunatic murderer, yes. Jack the Ripper? I doubt it.

Well, Kelly is supposed to have matched the Ripper's physical description at the time of the murders; he was also in London at the time of the murders, the story he told to the police in 1927 correlates with the historical facts, and his own personal hisory puts a new and gruesome spin on the obscure murder of Carrie Brown, who was marked with a large, carved X (10).

[Tybre]

Just going to push it from my mind.

So then, anyone else hear the Canadians are predicting another Little Ice Age? Personally I'm quite hopeful we have another one. Always enjoyed the cooler weather, and everything I've ever heard about the last seems so fun. Mind you I'm not sure I'd go holding any Thames frost fairs in this day and age. Heaven knows what's under that ice.

In the Thames?

Jack the Ripper I think.

You know I'm personally a proponent of the little-circulated theory (which has been gaining some attention since its recent inclusion in a video game) that it was Jacob Levy, a local butcher who seemed to have been quite mentally unwell and had a few traits common of serial killers. Plus, his being a butcher helps support his killings. If he comes home late covered in blood or is seen in the streets covered in blood or with bloodied equipment, people wouldn't think anything of it. After all, the man carves meat for a living! Have to find the full file on him again.

Here and here. Poor chap is so often overlooked.

Pardon me for sticking my head in, here, but what about James Kelly? After Jacob Levy (and, possibly, David Cohen), he's the most likely obscure suspect, in my book.

Cohen isn't that overlooked, at least in my experience. But then I've never made conversations regarding uncaught murderers with laymen before. Generally the common man finds discussion regarding such things...unsettling, in my experience. Used to try...never ended well...

Kelly, I've never given much credence to. Mostly because there's nothing to him, really. Sure, there are some things to connect him to the murders that make it plausible, and as I've said I will never entirely rule anyone out, but Kelly is grouped not far above the likes of Lewis Carroll. Now, if someone were to uncover something that were to say, yes he was in or near London in 1888, or some other thing that could lend credence to it, I would certainly move the theory up a bit, but as it is now, Kelly has no sufficient grounds for being the Ripper in my book. A lunatic murderer, yes. Jack the Ripper? I doubt it.

Well, Kelly is supposed to have matched the Ripper's physical description at the time of the murders; he was also in London at the time of the murders, the story he told to the police in 1927 correlates with the historical facts, and his own personal hisory puts a new and gruesome spin on the obscure murder of Carrie Brown, who was marked with a large, carved X (10).

There are two problems, though, regarding his matching the description:

The descriptions were all rather vague. And, on top of that, there are inconsistencies. Some described him as "looking like a Jew" some said he was tall, some average height, he was also described as being "stocky" or "stout" which a.) does not mean he was fat, necessarily b.) may also be given to meaning a man in good health, as many people in Whitechapel were ill and/or malnourished and therefore underweight. So yes, matching the description(s) helps an argument, but it's certainly not a lynchpin. Even if you take the description compiled of the majority of agreed statements, which is what the police used, it still fits a lot of other suspects.

As for the story he told in later life, bear in mind he was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. His word can hardly be taken as fact.

[danslittlefinger]

Morrissey knows!

[Mr. Blofeld]

Just going to push it from my mind.

So then, anyone else hear the Canadians are predicting another Little Ice Age? Personally I'm quite hopeful we have another one. Always enjoyed the cooler weather, and everything I've ever heard about the last seems so fun. Mind you I'm not sure I'd go holding any Thames frost fairs in this day and age. Heaven knows what's under that ice.

In the Thames?

Jack the Ripper I think.

You know I'm personally a proponent of the little-circulated theory (which has been gaining some attention since its recent inclusion in a video game) that it was Jacob Levy, a local butcher who seemed to have been quite mentally unwell and had a few traits common of serial killers. Plus, his being a butcher helps support his killings. If he comes home late covered in blood or is seen in the streets covered in blood or with bloodied equipment, people wouldn't think anything of it. After all, the man carves meat for a living! Have to find the full file on him again.

Here and here. Poor chap is so often overlooked.

Pardon me for sticking my head in, here, but what about James Kelly? After Jacob Levy (and, possibly, David Cohen), he's the most likely obscure suspect, in my book.

Cohen isn't that overlooked, at least in my experience. But then I've never made conversations regarding uncaught murderers with laymen before. Generally the common man finds discussion regarding such things...unsettling, in my experience. Used to try...never ended well...

Kelly, I've never given much credence to. Mostly because there's nothing to him, really. Sure, there are some things to connect him to the murders that make it plausible, and as I've said I will never entirely rule anyone out, but Kelly is grouped not far above the likes of Lewis Carroll. Now, if someone were to uncover something that were to say, yes he was in or near London in 1888, or some other thing that could lend credence to it, I would certainly move the theory up a bit, but as it is now, Kelly has no sufficient grounds for being the Ripper in my book. A lunatic murderer, yes. Jack the Ripper? I doubt it.

Well, Kelly is supposed to have matched the Ripper's physical description at the time of the murders; he was also in London at the time of the murders, the story he told to the police in 1927 correlates with the historical facts, and his own personal hisory puts a new and gruesome spin on the obscure murder of Carrie Brown, who was marked with a large, carved X (10).

There are two problems, though, regarding his matching the description:

The descriptions were all rather vague. And, on top of that, there are inconsistencies. Some described him as "looking like a Jew" some said he was tall, some average height, he was also described as being "stocky" or "stout" which a.) does not mean he was fat, necessarily b.) may also be given to meaning a man in good health, as many people in Whitechapel were ill and/or malnourished and therefore underweight. So yes, matching the description(s) helps an argument, but it's certainly not a lynchpin. Even if you take the description compiled of the majority of agreed statements, which is what the police used, it still fits a lot of other suspects.

As for the story he told in later life, bear in mind he was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. His word can hardly be taken as fact.

Well, the sources you quote about the killer "looking like a Jew", or that the crimes had to be "committed by a Jew", could just be the natural anti-Semitism of the time coming out... but, then, we'd be without a suspect, again.

[Tybre]

Morrissey knows!

I'm sorry, but I can't help but think of



as Jack the Ripper thanks to that video, mostly in title.

[danslittlefinger]

Morrissey knows!

I'm sorry, but I can't help but think of



as Jack the Ripper thanks to that video, mostly in title.

You know, never met anyone that has such a vivid imagination like mine before.
Morrissey always reminds me of an old scrooge sitting in an antique bookshop counting his coins.

Did you know he never spoke to anyone for about a year? Ralph Fiennes did that too.
Go figure.

[Mr. Blofeld]

No response to my remark, Tybre?

[danslittlefinger]

No response to my remark, Tybre?

Aww, feeling left out Mr B?

*hug*

But you never asked me about my reply to your very good post.

[Tybre]

Meh, there are benefits to silence.

And sorry Mr B, must've missed your post.

[Mr. Blofeld]

But you never asked me about my reply to your very good post.

Morrissey's always a good reply to a post.

Tybre, I'm sorry; was being a bit of a self-important jerk. Pay me no heed.

[Tybre]

Tybre, I'm sorry; was being a bit of a self-important jerk. Pay me no heed.

I'm sure it's quite fine, whatever it was.

[danslittlefinger]

But you never asked me about my reply to your very good post.

Morrissey's always a good reply to a post.
Im happy you're happy.

Tybre, I'm sorry; was being a bit of a self-important jerk. Pay me no heed.

I concur. Glad you agree.
Tybre: "I'm a laydee getting a drink, pay me no heed".

[Tybre]

Feels so much later than 9:30. I'm afraid I may to bed early tonight. But we shall see.

More importantly, someone get that man a refill!

[Mr. Blofeld]

I'm going out for a pizza and soda (and, possibly, some Beatles Rock Band and a showing of Yellow Submarine); anybody want to join?

[Tybre]

I'm going out for a pizza and soda (and, possibly, some Beatles Rock Band and a showing of Yellow Submarine); anybody want to join?

Dude, pizza and soda? Buy pumpkin bombs. Lots and lots of pumpkin bombs. And then go epicly insane. Because by god is epic insanity hilariously awesome. Seriously. Just read the sample pages. So many laughs in those few pages alone. Alas the whole issue isn't online for your reading pleasure. For example, “YOU DIDN’T HAVE A MOTHER! A PIG COUGHED AND YOU FELL OUT!”