Tuesday 12 May 2015

We Were Running Low,

on a few essential supplies,


 so off to Makro we went,

wine cellar replenished, we bought a few other things like food as well,

 during the day we pottered around the house, in the late afternoon the game show Celebratory The Chase was being shown, at last a celebratory that we had heard of, Neil Anthony Morrissey, although we have never watched a program he has been in, apparently He is best known for his role as Tony in Men Behaving Badly, we or I should say I had actually heard of him but better news, he and one other unknown celebratory won through to the final and gave £21,000 each to their nominated charities, after our evening meal it was fantasy time with Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, just as an aside here are 5 facts about Abraham Lincoln from The History channel that you may not know about him, for myself the two facts of the five that I was not aware of was that Lincoln was not an abolitionist and that he did not believe blacks should have the same rights as whites as he proclaimed in 1858, 

on to Fargo, we had watched the film before, this is what I wrote then, 

 'although the titles say it is based on a true movie it is not, but two similar events depicted in the movie did take place, an urban legend even says that people have gone to search Minnesota for the briefcase of money, but what did happen was that the plot has elements of two well-known Minnesota crimes, in 1962, a St. Paul attorney named Eugene Thompson hired someone to kill his wife, Carol, the sloppiness and brutality of the crime attracted great attention, then in 1972, Virginia Piper, the wife of a wealthy Orono banker, was kidnapped, a million-dollar ransom was paid, one of the largest in U.S. history, Mrs. Piper was found tied to a tree in a state park, two men were convicted of the crime, but were acquitted after a re-trial, only $4,000 of the money was ever recovered, so that, supposedly is why people are still looking for the other $996,000!'
we followed that with two more episodes from Boardwalk Empire, then we were off to bed.


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