Beachcombed 62 August 1, 2015
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Dear Reader, August. All the stress of the audit continues: poor Mrs B is desperate… The bill has just arrived. Beach is playing Russian roulette with the management of the university where he teaches: they are trying to get him to teach two weeks more a year gratis (ain’t happening). However, now the holidays. Beach is about to sit down and try and write something substantial following on from some footling little articles in July. The girls and Mrs B are off to the sea for three weeks of hell (how would you describe twenty days with the sister-in-law?). As to the Blog, in August there will be no history photos or new roundups: they will begin again in September. The posts, though, will keep coming…. Thanks, as always, to the multiple linkers: Amanda, Invisible, Chris S, Joan, Ricardo, Wade and others. I’ve put the very best contributions below to the posts from this month. Thanks for all emails (the cream follow here) and thanks for all good wishes.
All the best and enjoy your summers!
Beach
PS as there will be no roundups some of you may be interested in this article on Hayek, the best I’ve seen in recent years and this piece on the madness of crowds.
Catching Mermaids on Man: Kate G. on the uses of boiled egg water…
Don’t Blame Germany: Varied opinions from LTM, KMH, Zenobia, Ricardo R and James H
Dunkirk and Golden Bridges: Jaimie adding some new research…
Elephants in Eighth-century Honduras? Chris S with a letter from Nature (1914)…
Finishing Horace: Kate G. with a pertinent and rather beautiful video…
Ghost Cars: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books, Martin Shough, Amanda, Bruce T., with other examples (the most linked post of this month)
In Search of 19 Cent Urban Legends: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books defends sex and Lewis gives a potted bibliography…
Jumping Wild Men: Open Door on paranormal jumping…
Mongol elephants in America? Chris S. with lots of material…
POW Comes Home: JCE on the said backstory…
Seventeen Bodies: Southern Man on the documentary and Sophie Cabot with the inside story (email of the month)…
Silly Sieg Heils: Open Sesame with the Queen’s Hitler salute…
Snuff Urban Legend: JT, Chris from Haunted Ohio Books and Anonymous Reader on the credibility of snuff attacks… (I’m wavering)
The Cuckold’s Horns: Elia invokes the BBC…
The Earliest Telephone Call from the Dead: LTM with an early book, Chris S, Chris from Haunted Ohio Books and Filip with early examples
The King of Non Existent Islands: Bruce T calls in the Count…
The Monster of Piper’s Hole: LH picking out larger folk patterns from around Britain…
The Shining South African Snake Monster: Bruce T on scary as hell creek snake from Indian mythology…
The Tower Monster #1: Anonymous Reader and RR with explanations and reflections…
The Tower Monster #2: KMH and RR sort out Boreas (which had confused me)
The Tower Monster #3: Chris S sorts out Odic force…
The Tower Monster #5: Sliegel finds the source I thought could not be found…
The Tower Monster #6: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books sorts out the poem…
Where Are the Gods of the Modern World? EC, Chris S and Southern Man with their candidates for contemporary gods (UFOs and superheroes feature!)
Why Couldn’t WW2 Italians Fight? KMH invokes, and why not, the pope (second most popular post of the month)
William Allen White: Graeme saves the day by finding the original text; there really were fairies…
