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Sociology > Depression |
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"Franz Bestuchev" |
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19 Oct 2004 03:49:47 PM |
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ebay money |
I'm going to squander it on card games, loose women and trying to dodge
the pinkertons!
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: ebay money |
19 Oct 2004 04:06:26 PM |
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In message <2tlcvbF217j2hU2@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
I'm going to squander it on card games, loose women and trying to dodge
the pinkertons!
Is 'the pinkertons' some strange US word for an unspeakable disease,
sometimes caught from loose women?
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The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: ebay money |
19 Oct 2004 10:09:46 PM |
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Alan Harding wrote:
In message <2tlcvbF217j2hU2@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
I'm going to squander it on card games, loose women and trying to
dodge the pinkertons!
Is 'the pinkertons' some strange US word for an unspeakable disease,
sometimes caught from loose women?
No they were a detective/police force round about the 19th century
I think they're still in business though.
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: ebay money |
20 Oct 2004 02:09:56 AM |
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In message <2tm37qF209usaU1@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
Alan Harding wrote:
In message <2tlcvbF217j2hU2@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
I'm going to squander it on card games, loose women and trying to
dodge the pinkertons!
Is 'the pinkertons' some strange US word for an unspeakable
disease, sometimes caught from loose women?
No they were a detective/police force round about the 19th century
I think they're still in business though.
They are still going, if their website is to be believed. :)
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: ebay money |
20 Oct 2004 09:29:49 AM |
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Alan Harding wrote:
In message <2tm37qF209usaU1@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
Alan Harding wrote:
In message <2tlcvbF217j2hU2@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
I'm going to squander it on card games, loose women and trying to
dodge the pinkertons!
Is 'the pinkertons' some strange US word for an unspeakable
disease, sometimes caught from loose women?
No they were a detective/police force round about the 19th century
I think they're still in business though.
They are still going, if their website is to be believed. :)
Yea, but now they're rent-a-cops. Back then as I understand it they were
the enforcement arm for a number of fed agencies (treasury?)
They brutally beat down some striking workers at a Carnegie steel mill
(the new plant boss took the heat so that Mr. Rich could distance
himself from it and still pull the strings.)
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: ebay money |
20 Oct 2004 01:10:39 PM |
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In message <2tnb2sF20ii6hU4@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
Alan Harding wrote:
In message <2tm37qF209usaU1@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
Alan Harding wrote:
In message <2tlcvbF217j2hU2@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
I'm going to squander it on card games, loose women and trying to
dodge the pinkertons!
Is 'the pinkertons' some strange US word for an unspeakable
disease, sometimes caught from loose women?
No they were a detective/police force round about the 19th century
I think they're still in business though.
They are still going, if their website is to be believed. :)
Yea, but now they're rent-a-cops. Back then as I understand it they
were the enforcement arm for a number of fed agencies (treasury?)
They brutally beat down some striking workers at a Carnegie steel mill
(the new plant boss took the heat so that Mr. Rich could distance
himself from it and still pull the strings.)
When was this?
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: ebay money |
20 Oct 2004 06:19:16 PM |
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Alan Harding wrote:
In message <2tnb2sF20ii6hU4@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
Alan Harding wrote:
In message <2tm37qF209usaU1@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
Alan Harding wrote:
In message <2tlcvbF217j2hU2@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
I'm going to squander it on card games, loose women and trying to
dodge the pinkertons!
Is 'the pinkertons' some strange US word for an unspeakable
disease, sometimes caught from loose women?
No they were a detective/police force round about the 19th century
I think they're still in business though.
They are still going, if their website is to be believed. :)
Yea, but now they're rent-a-cops. Back then as I understand it they
were the enforcement arm for a number of fed agencies (treasury?)
They brutally beat down some striking workers at a Carnegie steel mill
(the new plant boss took the heat so that Mr. Rich could distance
himself from it and still pull the strings.)
When was this?
The Homestead strike 1892
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/carnegie/strike.html
Carnegie went to Scotland so as to not dirty his hands in the affair.
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| User: "Waxwing" |
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| Title: Re: ebay money |
22 Oct 2004 11:21:31 AM |
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Franz Bestuchev wrote:
Alan Harding wrote:
In message <2tnb2sF20ii6hU4@uni-berlin.de>, Franz Bestuchev
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> writes
I'm going to squander it on card games, loose women and trying to
dodge the pinkertons!
Is 'the pinkertons' some strange US word for an unspeakable
disease, sometimes caught from loose women?
No they were a detective/police force round about the 19th century
I think they're still in business though.
They are still going, if their website is to be believed. :)
Yea, but now they're rent-a-cops. Back then as I understand it they
were the enforcement arm for a number of fed agencies (treasury?)
They brutally beat down some striking workers at a Carnegie steel mill
(the new plant boss took the heat so that Mr. Rich could distance
himself from it and still pull the strings.)
When was this?
The Homestead strike 1892
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/carnegie/strike.html
Carnegie went to Scotland so as to not dirty his hands in the affair.
Just a factoid, Allan Pinkerton headed the intel for
McClellan in the Civil War. He was famous for wildly
overestimating the numbers of Confederate troops.
Brian
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