Huh. Never heard of Madeleine Smith. Sounds a lot like Strong Poison, though, doesn't it?
When Bunter walks in on Wimsey, who has just solved the mystery, one of the books Wimsey was reading was the Madeleine Smith trial. A classic, if you like arsenic and middle-class mayhem.
Ooh. I know what that means! My mathematical education hasn't completely disappeared.
Me too! Hooray for residual math-brain!
[And...it would have been a lot smoother had I posted this before the explanations went up. Oh well.]
Yay, I'm still in time to say b Happy Birthday Beth and Beej.
Did you all know that Mary Queen of Scots had porphyria? Wicked!
Sure, that's what they say now. Note that Elizabeth had her decapitated...
Did we know that Robert Reich (sp?) former Secretary of Labor, currently on TDS, is a little person?
And also -- dude, I knew about King George III and the madness, but I didn't know he had porphyria! Did you all know that Mary Queen of Scots had porphyria? Wicked!
I knew this.
Knew, because I've killed a few brain cells tonight, and I may not know in the morning.
And a lovely good liberal, too.
But yes, very short.
Did we know that Robert Reich (sp?) former Secretary of Labor, currently on TDS, is a little person?
I thought he was just really short.
Erin, I think you need to go celebrate your drunken state with something regrettable that will entertain us in the morning. Go. Hookerize.