Gavrillo Princeps

carnivorousplant · September 27, 2001, 1:15pm

Speaking of terrorists, what happened to him? DId he die of the 1918 influenza epidemic? Was he execued? Did he escape and lives, even now at 110, quietly in Barbados? Did Tito give him a cookie?

Danimal · September 27, 2001, 1:19pm

He died of TB in prison, around the end of the war. He was just too young, by a few days, to qualify for the death penalty.

carnivorousplant · September 27, 2001, 1:30pm

Thanks.

What about Elvis?

manhattan · September 27, 2001, 10:16pm

Elvis has left the building.

carnivorousplant · September 28, 2001, 1:36am

So, apparently, has Gavrillo Princeps.

Chez_Guevara · September 28, 2001, 6:41am

So what’s the connection between Gavrilo Princip and Elvis Presley?

No? OK, I’ll tell you.

Gavrilo’s father was a postman, and Elvis recorded a song with the lines:

I gave a letter to the postman
He put it in his sack

Is it possible that Elvis’s postman was none other than Gavrilo’s father?

carnivorousplant · September 28, 2001, 12:20pm

[music]
I gave a letter to the post man
addressed to the Duke Franz Ferd i nand.
[/music]