Long-dead lady baffles French (2-year murder investigation reveals that victim died 500 years ago)

Sunday Times (South Africa) ^ | Wednesday January 25, 2006 08:54 - (SA)

[Fletcher J]

RECKON is a perfectly good word - in fact, it's a great word. It also can be found several times in the King James version of the Bible.

"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:11 (KJV)

Well, I reckon I better get back to work now... lol

Fletcher J

[reagan_fanatic]

Long ago, when sailing ships ruled the waves, a captain and his crew were in danger of being boarded by a pirate ship. As the crew became frantic, the captain bellowed to his First Mate, "Bring me my red shirt!"

The First Mate quickly retrieved the captain's red shirt, which the captain put on and led the crew to battle the pirate boarding party.

Although some casualties occurred among the crew, the pirates were repelled. Later that day, the lookout screamed that there were two pirate vessels sending boarding parties. The crew cowered in fear, but the captain, calm as ever, bellowed, "Bring me my red shirt!"

Once again the battle was on. However, the Captain and his crew repelled both boarding parties, though this time more casualties occurred.

Weary from the battles, the men sat around on deck that night recounting the day's occurrences when an ensign looked to the Captain and asked, "Sir, why did you call for your red shirt before the battle?"

The Captain, giving the ensign a look that only a captain can give, exhorted, "If I am wounded in battle, the red shirt does not show the wound and thus, you men will continue to fight unafraid."

The men sat in silence marveling at the courage of such a man. As dawn came the next morning, the lookout screamed that there were pirate ships, 10 of them, all with boarding parties on their way.

The men became silent and looked to the Captain, their leader, for his usual command. The Captain, calm as ever, bellowed, "Bring me my brown pants!"

[Zavien Doombringer]

t'will be a long wind for ye now, 'ow bout me pourin' ye a flagon of rum and enjoy the shanties..Round of Spanish Ladies if ye please

[Zavien Doombringer]

Me brown pants, lest I be missin' the head..

[Zavien Doombringer]

Hoy there and stand down!, tis me'lady you portray.

Anne was with me crew...

Jack Rackham, at your service, friends call me Calico...

[AnAmericanMother]

"If you had fought like a man, you need not have died like a dog!"

[lepton]

NO, it was the right date, just not the date everyone wanted.

Or rather, it was the right date, but not of the object everyone wanted tested.

[wildbill]

ARRRRRGH! Them that died was the lucky ones.

[Zavien Doombringer]

it was me fate. sitting there on the beach, I was. Drinking me marguerita, I was...Then out from beyond the treeline came a noose that bound me around me neck.... Been hanging around since.

[babble-on]

Reckon could also be a taken as a loose cognate of the French verb "reconnaitre" which means "recognize", but with the sense of understanding more than visual recognition. If the froggie policeman was saying, "We understand now that it was probably pirates" that did it, he might well have used the term "reconnais" which the English language press might have rendered as "reckon".

[Zavien Doombringer]

let's just say, the hopeful were hurt, the sceptics were happy and no one is still the wiser.

It wouldn't be out of character for the established regime to use trickery to bring in converts. If you believe in the shroud, so be it, I have some indulgences for you to buy, if you need some brownie points in purgatory.

[lepton]

It wouldn't be out of character for the established regime to use trickery to bring in converts. If you believe in the shroud, so be it, I have some indulgences for you to buy, if you need some brownie points in purgatory.

Heh. It's no more than a historical curiousity to me. Whatever it is, it's clearly a very strange item.

[Zavien Doombringer]

I agree on that, it is an entriguing piece of work.

[Peanut Gallery]

rofl!

[Snickersnee]

Odd as it may seem, the Brittany coast was subject to Muslim raiders coming up from the Med in the XV Century. They also harrassed Normandy, Cornwall and Dover. Yeah, they were pains in the @ss then, too.

[muleskinner]

Arrgh. Where's me parrot?

[Hegemony Cricket]

A victim of dead reckoning, do ya suppose?

[Zavien Doombringer]

Arrr... Another one of those, off to the gauntlet with ye!

[Zavien Doombringer]

Flew straight to parrot bay, says I, seen it with me own eye.

[Flavius Josephus]

Exactly!