Mon dieu - Lizzie meets the Simpsons

[Harry]

This site lists episodes of the TV series The Simpsons. Description of the shows are in French. About the 11th one down is the one on the Bordens.

http://www.simpsonspark.com/wp/wp_b2.php

Maybe Auds will translate it for us.

[Audrey]

Lizzie is serving on a jury! Not only that she is on a "Tribunal des Damnes" Basically she is of a jury that is dammed!

The blurb tells us that "Elisabeth Andrew Borden" was an American accused but never convicted of a double murder in 1892.

She also has brown hair and is considered to be deadly!

This page really seems interested in the color of the characters hair!

[FairhavenGuy]

It seems that she's serving on a jury made up of famous historical criminals.

There's a mention of it here:
http://www.bennoshuette.de/dachkammer/arbeit_lizzie.htm

The episode is "Treehouse of Terror IV," one of the Halloween episodes.

[Harry]

Never mind what Harry does.

[doug65oh]

Lizzie Borden serving on a "Jury of The Damned?" Interesting...makes me think of that old Benet story. Remember this??

"...If Jabez Stone had been sick with terror before, he was blind with terror now. For there was Walter Butler, the Loyalist, who spread fire and horror through the Mohawk Valley in the times of the Revolution; and there was Simon Girty, the renegade, who saw white men burned at the stake and whooped with the Indians to see them burn. His eyes were green, like a catamount's, and the stains on his hunting shirt did not come from the blood of the deer. King Philip was there, wild and proud as he had been in life, with the great gash in his head that gave him his death wound, and cruel Governor Dale, who broke men on the wheel. There was Morton of Merry Mount, who so vexed the Plymouth Colony, with his flushed, loose, handsome face and his hate of the godly. There was Teach, the bloody pirate, with his black beard curling on his breast. The Reverend John Smeet, with his strangler's hands and his Geneva gown, walked as daintily as he had to the gallows. The red print of the rope was still around his neck, but he carried a perfumed handkerchief in one hand. One and all, they came into the room with the fires of hell still upon them, and the stranger named their names and their deeds as they came, till the tale of twelve was told."
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer ... bster.html

(The judge in Benet's tale, you may recall, was none other than old John Hathorne, of Salem once upon a time.)

[Harry]

Thanks Auds for the translation.

Doug65oh - now THAT'S a jury! Lizzie was lucky she didn't draw them.

[doug65oh]

Harry... I know what you mean! It sure would have made for some interesting write-ups in the Evening Standard, tho!!

[Audrey]

you sound offended - didn't mean to offend, was only making a suggestion to make it easier and less time consuming for you. i don't know how to do those faces that depict tone of voice. sorry if you got offended by that post, wasn't meant to be.

Harry's links are wonderful. I always know when I see one from him that is not one I have seen many times and that I will love looking at it.

Perhaps he is one of those people who enjoys the fruits of his own labors and can appreciate the trip as well as the destination.

The credibility he enjoys here, and among "Lizzie Circles" is well earned and deserved. Harry never takes credit where he shouldn't. He never attempts to stir up trouble or send unwelcome and unsolicted communications to others. He would never try to deceive for the purpose of personal gain. He is, in short-- a good person.

Harry rocks.....

[theebmonique]

My sentiments exactly, Auds.


Tracy...

[Harry]

Ladies, thank you very much for your comments. Lets just say the person, he or she, assumed too much of how I find anything. I am well aware of all kinds of search engines and notification systems. Duh, I actually use some.

But as Auds says, sometimes the fun is in getting there.

[FairhavenGuy]

Never mind what Harry does.

Harry, I'm making this my signature.

[Harry]

Thank goodness I didn't say what I wanted to say!

Actually Chris, I plan to copyright that.

[Fargo]

I was watching the simpsons episide with Lizzie in it last night. Treehouse of horror IV. I had seen it before but I could never figure out what that piece of furiture was that Lizzie was trying to do something with. I did some looking at different episode guides and it says that Lizzie tries to sit on Lisa's ergonomic computer chair (whatever that is) but can't quite figure it out.

[Kat]

I would have liked some advance notice that that episode would be on. Rats!
I've never seen a Simpson show.
Oh well.

[keim]

Unless you've owned an old ergonomic computer stool, you never know the odd manipulations needed to get into it! Once in position, it was fairly comfortable, but it invariably became the chair nobody wanted to use. The fact that the Simsons (like most of us) are unprepared to seat a large group of people is hilarious. Lizzie got stuck using the computer chair, while Blackbeard was forced to sit in the high chair "This chair be high...says I!".

The Jury of the Damned was
Benedict Arnold, Lizzie Borden, Richard Nixon (who wasn't dead yet, but owed a favor to Satan), John Wilkes Booth, Blackbeard the Pirate, John Dillinger, and the starting line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers!