Pizza bombs and perfect crimes (Trees And Things)

Steve Urkel: Re: artsy art crimes

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:41:52 EST

Thanks for filling in the blank.

That made me think of a famous art forger, who found himself between a rock and a hard place:

http://denisdutton.com/van_meegeren.htm

Ellen Ripley: Re: Found it.

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:12:17 EST

Based on a Roald Dahl short story.

zyxwvutsr: Re: artsy art crimes

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:56:46 EST

John Drewe.

thefadd: Re: artsy art crimes

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:15:58 EST

almost sounds like that woody allen movie.

Steve Urkel: artsy art crimes

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:20:05 EST

I can't find a link, but in the 80's or early 90's I think a group of European art forgers painted a bunch of fake paintings by various artists, then went to the main art libraries which dealers and museums use to check for records of these works and place

Toby Flip: Re: Pizza bombs and perfect crimes

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:26:39 EST

How did you know that‽ It's supposed to be a secret!

Are you my future self?

gerrymander: Re: Pizza bombs and perfect crimes

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:44:05 EST

All i need to do is wait for my future self to send one back to me. I hope he gets around to it soon.

Dude. Your future self has a time machine. Of course he'll only send it to you immediately after the crime is committed. Otherwise,

Toby Flip: Re: Pizza bombs and perfect crimes

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:21:48 EST

All my perfect crimes involve the use of a time machine. All i need to do is wait for my future self to send one back to me. I hope he gets around to it soon.

I can't remember which in which book (maybe The Eiger Sanction) Trevanian describe

MayorBob: Found it.

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:39:25 EST

The title of the episode was Lamb to the Slaughter. The wife was played by Barbara Bel Geddes, whom you might rem

MayorBob: Re: Would you like something to eat?

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:22:31 EST

That was an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents show on TV. As I recall, both detectives sat down to a heapin' helping of the murdering wife's hospitality. One of the cops stopped in mid-mouthful and asked the other if he thought they would ever find

Steve Urkel: Re: My Favorite line

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:39:48 EST

The security guard (played by Bob Elliott, if I remember right) asks Murray "What kind of clown are you?" and he says "The crying on the inside kind, I guess."

In some countries they have "postal banks", combined post offices and bank branches, kind of

thefadd: Re: Pizza bombs and perfect crimes

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:32:27 EST

I was very intrigued by the pizza bomber case when it first happened. It's almost like an X-Files episode, in fact, I think it was an early X-Files episode. It's sort of a terror catch-22 -- being forced to commit a crime at the pain of death.

In a s

thefadd: My Favorite

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:17:52 EST

My favorite bank robbery concept was Bill Murray's (or rightly I suppose it belongs to the writers Jay Cronley and Howard Franklin) in the 1990 film Quick Change. Haven't seen it in quite awhile but at the time I thought it was the funniest first 30 minute

Lou: Would you like something to eat?

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:09:51 EST

A long time ago, I read a story about a woman who bashed in her husband's brains with a frozen leg of lamb, and then cooked it. She even offered a piece to the investigating officer. Of course, that wouldn't work now what with