# 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:** 12
**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:** [April 4, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/221 "2017-04-04T03:35:26Z")
You wouldn’t think we’d have to leave Chicago to see a dead body. 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 7, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/222 "2017-04-07T12:56:14Z")
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. When the mere murders begin, it will be an improvement. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/223 "2017-04-07T16:22:04Z")
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. For 'tis the way that murders oft begin. ---
**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 7, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/224 "2017-04-07T16:49:37Z")
Cold hearted orb that rules the night, Removes the colours from our sight, Red is gray and yellow white, But we decide which is right; And when the murders begin. ---
**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 7, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/225 "2017-04-07T18:03:41Z")
John Jacob Jingleheimer-Smith His name is my name too Whenever we go out the people always shout John Jacob Jingleheimer-Smith. And then the murders started. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/226 "2017-04-07T19:17:29Z")
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. 'Twas when the myrdurs begane. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/227 "2017-04-07T22:23:18Z")
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. But 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 7, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/228 "2017-04-07T22:50:25Z")
War…war never changes. Neither do murders. ---
**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 7, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/229 "2017-04-07T22:51:44Z")
That Sam I Am. That Sam I Am. I do not like that Sam I Am. 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 8, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/230 "2017-04-08T17:03:58Z")
> [@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. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Brilliant!! Thank you. My mouth fell open when my brain came up with that one. Sounds like the beginning of a great movie. ---
**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 8, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/231 "2017-04-08T17:45:59Z")
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade. 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 9, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/232 "2017-04-09T17:21:42Z")
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with blood beside the white chickens beaks and claws dripping wet beside the dead farmer their first victim. ---
**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 9, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/233 "2017-04-09T18:04:25Z")
Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on that farm the murders began, E-I-E-I-O. ---
**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 9, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/234 "2017-04-09T18:26:40Z")
In the Middle of the Earth in a land called Shire, Is a brave little Hobbit whom we all admire – With his long wooden pipe, Fuzzy, woolly toes, He lives in a hobbit-hole and everybody knows him. And that’s when the Mordor began. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/235 "2017-04-09T20:19:55Z")
Leaves are falling all around, it’s time I was on my way. 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 9, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/236 "2017-04-09T20:57:32Z")
Da-da-da duuummm Mur ders be giiiiiiiin ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/237 "2017-04-09T20:59:53Z")
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to murder them all. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/238 "2017-04-09T23:52:12Z")
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression “As pretty as an airport.” 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:** [April 10, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/239 "2017-04-10T03:45:26Z")
Here’s one only people as old as me are going to get: There’s a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn’s broken out in fights. There’s a traffic jam in Harlem that backed up to Jackson Heights. There’s a Scout troop short a child, Khrushchev’s due at Idlewild… Car 54, the murders began… ---
**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:** [April 10, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/240 "2017-04-10T04:27:22Z")
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door, ‘tis some visitor,’ I muttered, ‘tapping at my chamber door.’ Quoth the murders, evermore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716.md?page=13)