Bernard Spilsbury Puns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Spilsbury

The article is not too creepy per se, but it's like a hub for various British cases which this man worked on. Good rabbit hole of old-fashioned murders. Also there's this aspect of a single expert becoming too dominant and confident in his own knowledge... As Keith Simpson wrote of Spilsbury, '[his] positive evidence had doubtless led to conviction at trials that might have ended with sufficient doubt for acquittal.'

Hello! Looking for books to gift my dad. He likes non fiction and his favorite kind of reads are “ordinary people who do extraordinary things”

He’s mostly into biographies/history/wartime reads and I’ve listed some books he’s read and that I’ve gifted him that he really enjoyed:

I'd really appreciate some help! Thank you in advance :)

• Into Thin Air
  • It details Krakauer's experience in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a storm.
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place
  • Autobiographical book by American mountain climber Aron Ralston. It details an incident that occurred in 2003 when Ralston was canyoneering in Bluejohn Canyon in the Utah desert, where he became trapped for five days.
• Moscow Rules
  • From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo, discover the "real-life spy thriller" of the brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives who developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold War
• The Stranger in The Woods
  • Christopher Knight was only 20 years old when he decided to vanish from society without leaving any notes or indication that he was doing so with friends or family. Until one day with any prior planning he abandoned his car on the edge of a forest and walked about and wasn't seen for 27 years until his arrest for burglary.
• The Greatest Beer Run Ever
  • A man's story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam. A man's story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam.
• The Father of Forensics
  • Before there was CSI, there was one man who saw beyond the crime and into the future of forensic science.   His name was Bernard Spilsbury—and, through his use of cutting-edge science, he single-handedly brought criminal investigations into the modern age
• Secret History of the IRA
  • Delving deeply into the inner workings, furtive plots, and deadly rivalries of the Irish Republican Army, Ed Moloney, who has covered the IRA since the late 1970s, delivers a riveting account of how one of the world's oldest and most ruthless terrorist groups was maneuvered into ending its thirty-year war with Britain.
• Churchill: Walking with Destiny
  • *The iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his

In the 1930s Brighton was the most resplendent of seaside resort towns in the UK. It also enjoyed a reputation as a place where sexual illicitness was allowed, expected and even invited. ‘A dirty weekend in Brighton’ was a popular catch phrase. But among the many nicknames, ‘Torso city’ seemed the most deserving from a weird coincidence for the town being the scene for three out of five popular trunk crimes in Great Britain.

We will explore three trunk crimes in Part 1 and the remaining two in Part 2

1. Celia Holloway

Late 1820s John Holloway, a petty criminal and laborer on the Brighton Chain Pier started dating Celia. She became pregnant, he refused to marry her and with the help of her church, she got him jailed until he agreed. He relented after 5 weeks and married her. Alas, that baby and the next died very quickly.

 

John started seeing another woman, Ann Kennett and both women were pregnant in 1831 when he killed his wife Celia with the help of his girlfriend, and dismembered her. Body parts were hidden in a trunk and buried in a shallow grave near Lover’s Walk. A local fisherman noticed that some earth had been recently disturbed, and thus he was caught.

 

Long-story-short, he was tried, hanged but Ann got away with a non-guilty. The next day, his body was brought back to Brighton and displayed at the Town Hall, where it drew a crowd of over 23,000 people. This was very high profile and sensational at the time. Celia Holloway is commemorated by a plaque at St Peter’s Church.

https://imgur.com/a/vp972QD

2. Beatrice Ellen Maud and sons

1905, Arthur Devereux poisoned his wife and their twin disabled two-year-old sons with morphine salts. He a was a dentist and a chemist’s assistant. Stuffed their dismembered bodies in a tin trunk, fitted with a custom air-tight cover. The trunk was hidden in a warehouse in Kensal Rise until his mother-in-law found it a few months later.

 

A local police sergeant pried open the trunk at the request of Mrs Ellen Gregory, who had heard nothing from her 30-year-old daughter Beatrice Ellen Maud and two grandsons Evelyn and Laurence. The trunk containing the bodies of his wife and twin sons had been very professionally strapped, padlocked, screwed-down and hermetically sealed with fungi-depressing boric acid glue to prevent give-away decomposition. The police surgeon said it could have existed for years without revealing any sign of its grisly contents

 

Dev

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Buenosdillas

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

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Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

“BOOM”?!

free

"That's what they're fighting about."