I've been reading a book called Dark Water, part of a series by David Pirie about Arthur Conan Doyle's adventures with Dr. Bell, the medical professor Doyle used as the model for Sherlock Holmes. It's a Baker Street Irregulars kind of story written in a Doyle like style.
Doyle and Dr. Bell are in pursuit of the Canadian serial killer Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. Cream was a real person who is one of the Jack the Ripper suspects. I knew I'd herd the name Dr. Cream before. In the Monty Python "Psychiatrist Dairy" sketch there was a psychiatrist at the dairy named Dr. Cream. I always thought it was just a dumb milk product joke but no.
Dark Water, the book
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Magicians "love" psychics. In general they believe the problem scientists have with validating psychic phenomena is that they don't know enough about stage magic. James Randi had an open challenge to Uri Geller. Randi said he could duplicate anything Geller did.
"His rival, a great bull pantomime horse..."--from the Pantomime Horse show. The narrator has a really hokey Scandinavian accent.
Monty Python seems to be following me around. I took an exam last week, and one of the questions was based on what was clearly an Americanized re-write of a Monty Python skit. Can't say more than that, I suppose....
Nippy, that's the problem! I can't remember what I did last weekend, not to mention something I heard on Monty Python 2 decades ago!
Ina, it's a case of the memories from long ago being much more vivid than recent ones. Around 1990 my wife's grandmother was in a senior citizen place in Sacramento, where she'd lived most of her life. She had been a nurse. (I've got a lot in my family.) Every now and then she'd wander off and be found at the last hospital where she'd worked. I suppose it's a good thing that the hospital was still there since she'd last worked there in the late 30s or early 40s.
Doyle is a possible suspect in this absurd caper.
I've always believed the story that an unexpected 'gut-punch' got Mr. Weisz.
"Weisz", the Hungarian spelling, was not used by the family after they immigrated into the US--they changed it to Weiss. They didn't feel very Hungarian, I suppose (and they probably had their reasons).