Spring-Heel Jack

Drooling Fan Girl · Post by **Drooling Fan Girl** » Wed Jul 04, 2001 2:09 am

Um, help me out here, why is it cool that I know about Spring Heel Jack? I think I read about him in a horror comic when I was a kid, and I think he was either a "bogey man" of sorts or a real murderer in Victorian England.Take Care
DFG

Jayjaybear · Post by **Jayjaybear** » Wed Jul 04, 2001 2:14 am

It's cool because "I was a teenage Fort addict" and read all of the "weird happenings" books I could find. Spring-Heel Jack, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, the Devil's hoofprints in Devon, the Jersey Devil, lake monsters, rains of fishes and frogs, sasquatch, UFOs, animals found alive embedded in rocks...I devoured that kind of thing.None of them are really a common knowledge sort of thing, except for the lake monster and sasquatch and UFOs. Spring-Heel Jack is definitely of the less commonly known variety.jayjay (connoisseur of the weird)------------------
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Jayjaybear · Post by **Jayjaybear** » Wed Jul 04, 2001 10:17 am

I just wanted to note (without interrupting the Word Association Game) how cool it is that Drooling Fan Girl knew about Spring-Heel Jack. Yay!jayjay (weird-stuff fanbear)------------------
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Drooling Fan Girl · Post by **Drooling Fan Girl** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 12:20 am

(DFG wipes the sweat from her brow.)Ok cool beans. But do you know who Ed Geen was?Take Care
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Jayjaybear · Post by **Jayjaybear** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 4:09 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Drooling Fan Girl:
(DFG wipes the sweat from her brow.)Ok cool beans. But do you know who Ed Geen was?Take Care
DFG<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ed Gein? The guy who did the human taxidermy?jayjay
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Drooling Fan Girl · Post by **Drooling Fan Girl** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 4:17 am

Ten points for the near-sighted Teddy Bear in the corner! I read a book about him. Talk about truth is stranger than fiction. He inspired Psycho, Leather Face, and Probably Buffalo Bill, but the real Gein was still weirder than all of them combined.Let me guess you read Chopping Block, right?Take Care
DFG

Falen · Post by **Falen** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 4:55 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>weird-stuff fanbear<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Y'know the first thought I had wasn't that you were a fan of weird-stuff, it was
"If she's a drooling fan-girl, then he's a what? fanbear???Bah, buncha perverts, you're all getting into my head now. :-}

Jayjaybear · Post by **Jayjaybear** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 5:24 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Drooling Fan Girl:
Let me guess you read Chopping Block, right?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Actually, I don't. It only just came to my attention with the CCA awards last week, and I haven't managed to get it on my schedule yet.jayjay------------------
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Jayjaybear · Post by **Jayjaybear** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 5:29 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Falen:
Bah, buncha perverts, you're all getting into my head now. :-}<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Ferret's fault. I'm innocent...jayjay (okay, that last sentence was mind-bogglingly inaccurate, but...)------------------
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Drooling Fan Girl · Post by **Drooling Fan Girl** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 6:26 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Falen:
 Bah, buncha perverts, you're all getting into my head now. :-}<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yes, and your point would be? <IMG SRC="http://www.contrabandent.com/pez/contrib/dvv/esmil2.gif"> Take Care
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PDI · Post by **PDI** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 6:28 am

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Jayjaybear · Post by **Jayjaybear** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 10:04 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by PDI:
Jay: can I tap you from time to time as the resident fortean? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Depends on where you ta...oh, wait... :0)Yes, sure. I'm not currently a major follower of that genre, though I do occasionally run across something new and interesting. But I'll help with what I do remember.jayjay------------------
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Jayjaybear · Post by **Jayjaybear** » Sat Jul 07, 2001 2:04 am

Heh...a fortean (in the very specific sense) is a fan of Charles Forte, who made a lifelong hobby of collecting "stranger than science"-type tidbits of information and wrote four books about those tidbits.In a more general sense, it refers to afficionados of the wider genre of "the weird"...like I said before in this thread: cryptozoology, UFOs, rains of fishes or blood or flesh or angel hair, living animals (usually frogs or toads) cut out of a surrounding matrix of unbroken rock, "spook lights", and a whole slew of other paranormal thingies that don't quite rise to the level of demon possession or angelic visitations.jayjay------------------
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Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Sat Jul 07, 2001 7:46 am

There have appearently been some recent Spring-Heeled Jack attacks in England.I had once contemplated doing a comic about SHJ along the lines of the "misunderstood superhero" genre.------------------
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Falen · Post by **Falen** » Sat Jul 07, 2001 11:14 am

What's a fortean?*is too lazy to whip out the dictionary or go to dictionary.com, even though doing so would probably take up less time than posting here.*

Falen · Post by **Falen** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 6:41 am

I just wanted to share with you that the word "fortean" was used in the DiscWorld book I"m reading today. I was like "Yayyyy! I know what that means!"

Falen · Post by **Falen** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 3:41 am

Please tell me you're not serious. . . Some of my loudest laughs have come from the footnotes. Hell, sometimes the footnotes create an on-running joke that won't make sense without them. Whyever do American publishers want to remove them?

Captain apathy · Post by **Captain apathy** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 7:11 am

DiscWorld Rocks! And I'm lucky enough to have a scifi fantasy bookstore in my neighbourhood that imports the new ones straight from britain.BTW did you hear that the american publishers have decided to remove the footnotes? It's outrageous, they are some of the best parts of the novels.

Jayjaybear · Post by **Jayjaybear** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 9:52 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Falen:
Whyever do American publishers want to remove them? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Because a publisher with a sense of humor is like a talking dog. It's technically possible, but the execution is usually fatally flawed...jayjay------------------
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