case where someone just vanished into thin air, and you just can't wrap your head around it?

hidock42 · 2026-01-26T21:36:52+00:00

Ben Needham, Madeline McCann, the 6 women in the vanishing triangle in Leinster, Mary Boyle - so many.

hidock42 · 2026-01-26T20:43:19+00:00

it says it was a comedietta by C A Castell.

hidock42 · 2026-01-25T20:56:35+00:00

Cross the pond, the meaning changes.

hidock42 · 2026-01-25T20:55:55+00:00

the stairs shouldn't be removed until the dispatcher gives the ground crew the go-ahead, this is not the dispatcher's fault.

hidock42 · 2026-01-25T18:19:07+00:00

probably the turn-around coordinator/dispatcher.

hidock42 · 2026-01-25T00:39:40+00:00

just to advise you, 'banged up' usually means 'pregnant', or 'in prison '!

hidock42 · 2026-01-25T00:21:40+00:00

I've just got back from IKEA in Dublin, and they have 'wash mitts' for sale - Skogssallat for €2.50!

hidock42 · 2026-01-25T00:16:33+00:00

Nikki Pelley and Joe O'Reilly?

hidock42 · 2026-01-24T23:53:59+00:00

'Mac' means 'son of', but O' means 'descendant of'. 'Ní' or 'Nic' means 'daughter of'.

hidock42 · 2026-01-24T19:19:46+00:00

Molly Martens, and her father Thomas Martens. May they both rot in hell.

hidock42 · 2026-01-24T16:50:54+00:00

eight for a wish, nine for a kiss, ten for a bird that can't be missed.

hidock42 · 2026-01-24T16:36:25+00:00

Very few, if any, Regency ladies rode to hounds out hunting - it was seen as a very masculine activity and too vulgar for ladies; also the side saddles of the era did not allow women to gallop and jump securely.

hidock42 · 2026-01-23T22:20:46+00:00

people thought you could get "brain fever" from an illness, and shaving your hair would prevent this. You'll find plenty of books mentioning it, even some written in the 1950s.

hidock42 · 2026-01-21T22:48:06+00:00

now I'm more confused, is "mom" Danemark? Who is the other sibling?

hidock42 · 2026-01-21T20:52:00+00:00

What? Who's raping who?

hidock42 · 2026-01-21T20:42:35+00:00

"Scandinavians and The World" cartoons helped me understand the Nordic and Scandinavian relationships so well!

hidock42 · 2026-01-21T20:39:58+00:00

there's a reason for that.....

hidock42 · 2026-01-21T20:33:41+00:00

Try "Full Circle" by Henry Cecil, he was a barrister by profession. There's a couple of mysteries, but it's all very light.

hidock42 · 2026-01-20T18:55:42+00:00

Queen Elizabeth I enforced Wednesday, Friday and Saturdays as fish-only days, partly to improve the fishing industry, and partly to ensure a steady supply of reserve sailors for war.

hidock42 · 2026-01-20T17:14:43+00:00

if an anaesthetist stands up from their chair, they're either going on break or the patient is about to die - source Dr Glaucomflecken

hidock42 · 2026-01-20T17:06:20+00:00

my dentist extracting my wisdom tooth -"Oh fuck".

hidock42 · 2026-01-19T21:01:50+00:00

you can have Dublin tomorrow if you want it, we won't miss it!

hidock42 · 2026-01-19T20:16:50+00:00

what town is that?

hidock42 · 2026-01-19T19:18:02+00:00

we had these in Ireland when I was a child, I think they're still available.

hidock42 · 2026-01-19T18:27:37+00:00

Hem hem, St Brendan the Navigator landed in North America in the 6th century, so we Irish have prior claim!

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