# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/161 "2017-03-18T09:49:58Z")
Jack Torrence thought: officious little prick, and then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/162 "2017-03-18T10:58:41Z")
In sleep he sang to me; in dreams he came. That voice that calls to me and speaks my name. 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 18, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/163 "2017-03-18T14:13:11Z")
In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. 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:** [March 18, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/164 "2017-03-18T14:19:32Z")
Everyone seems to remember with great clarity what they were doing on November 22nd, 1963, at the precise moment what they were doing when they heard President Kennedy was dead. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/165 "2017-03-18T14:24:22Z")
This is the story of a girl Who cried a river and drowned the whole world. 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:** [March 18, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/166 "2017-03-18T14:38:02Z")
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day. And then the murders began. Friday night and the lights are low, looking out for a place to go And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/167 "2017-03-18T16:44:46Z")
'Twas on the shores that round our coast From Deal to Ramsgate span, That I found alone on a piece of stone . . . . . . . .And then the murders began. —W S Gilbert, “The Yarn of the Nancy Bell”, in which everyone mentioned is murdered. ---
**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 18, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/168 "2017-03-18T17:58:11Z")
In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times. And then 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:** [March 18, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/169 "2017-03-18T19:41:32Z")
It was love at first sight. 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 18, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/170 "2017-03-18T23:12:04Z")
Any dictionary editor stymied for an illustration of the word “paralyzed” would have pounced on him in an instant. And then the murders began. And since songs seem to have been added… Jerimiah was a bullfrog; was a good friend of mine. 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 18, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/171 "2017-03-18T23:37:54Z")
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within. 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 18, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/172 "2017-03-18T23:52:37Z")
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/173 "2017-03-19T06:35:32Z")
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. And then the murders began. My baby loves my troubles away, every night he makes my day~~And then the murders began. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/174 "2017-03-19T08:22:38Z")
a or A (ā) n. pl. a’s or A’s also as or As 1. The first letter of the modern English alphabet. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/175 "2017-03-19T10:50:38Z")
“Goddamn bugs!” 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:** [March 19, 2017, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/176 "2017-03-19T12:04:35Z")
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/177 "2017-03-22T14:46:23Z")
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. And then the murders began. (Too obvious?) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/178 "2017-03-23T12:16:44Z")
The old grey donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/179 "2017-03-23T13:02:42Z")
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. And then the murders began. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716/180 "2017-03-23T18:58:01Z")
One sunny Sunday, a caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry. And then the murders began. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-then-the-murders-began/781716.md?page=10)