# And Then The Murders Began **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 8, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716 "2017-03-08T19:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/201 "2017-03-29T00:32:49Z")
Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre gimble in the wabe. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/202 "2017-03-29T01:12:32Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > “How utterly delightful!” exclaimed Richelieu. “I’ve never seen a cat with such delicate features. The coloration is marvelous, as well.” And then the murders began. Yea! An Eric Flint fan! ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/203 "2017-03-29T01:54:17Z")
The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/204 "2017-03-30T01:40:09Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Yea! An Eric Flint fan! Yep. and in your honor, the first sentence from the very latest novel (not in bookstores until early April). The brow of the Prime Minister of the United States of Europe was furrowed with doubt piled atop doubtfulness—doubt with respect to the proposal being made, and doubtfulness concerning the motives of the proposer. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/205 "2017-03-30T02:38:40Z")
His wife had held him in her arms as if she could keep death away from him. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/206 "2017-03-30T03:43:31Z")
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/207 "2017-03-30T04:11:38Z")
The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/208 "2017-04-01T15:16:44Z")
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram. Caedes deinde coepit. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/209 "2017-04-01T16:20:48Z")
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.” And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/210 "2017-04-01T19:31:53Z")
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/211 "2017-04-01T20:06:06Z")
I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/212 "2017-04-02T00:46:35Z")
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. And then the murders, well, continued, actually. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/213 "2017-04-02T02:19:49Z")
The atmospheric dust count was up today. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/214 "2017-04-02T02:24:18Z")
For sale: baby clothes, never used. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/215 "2017-04-02T21:34:58Z")
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. For the murders had already begun, you see. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/216 "2017-04-03T13:10:59Z")
It’s 9:00 on a Saturday, The regular crowd shuffles in. There’s an old man sitting next to me And that’s when the murders begin. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/217 "2017-04-03T14:55:09Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > It’s 9:00 on a Saturday, > The regular crowd shuffles in. > There’s an old man sitting next to me > And that’s when the murders begin. Brilliant!! The need for secrecy was constant. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/218 "2017-04-03T23:42:21Z")
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/219 "2017-04-04T01:19:01Z")
Early morning Manhattan, Ocean winds blow on the land. The Movie-Palace is now undone, The all-night watchmen have had their fun. Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show, It’s the same old ending-time to go – Get out! It seems they cannot leave their dream. There’s something moving in the sidewalk steam, And then the murders began on Broadway. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/220 "2017-04-04T01:53:43Z")
Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab orīs Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō vī superum saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram; multa quoque et bellō passūs, dum conderet urbem, inferretque deōs Latiō, genus unde Latīnum, Albānīque patrēs, atque altae moenia Rōmae. Caedes deinde coepit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716.md?page=12)