Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Just for fun, I would love to know what you all would get Lizzie for Christmas if she was still alive and your friend. Don't know, don't think I'd get her anything sharp!! Maybe a dog or something like that.

that's a good idea snukkums, a puppy! I wonder why she didn't have one at 92 street. Having something of her own to love and take care of could have made Lizzie a different child. I think I'd get her, a good book to read. Mark Twain was writing during her time and I think she'd really enjoy his quotes.

Yup shakiboo, don't want to get something sharp, she might use it. Somebody else better cut the turkey!

your right! nothing sharp for her! lol

Yup, she might get a little happy with the turkey.

or worse, the quests that come for dinner! She did like animals, apparently more then she did some people!

Perfume- "My Sin" by Lanvin

Oh aother good one!!! Angel!

I'd get her a Brownie camera and tell her to go to town!

I'd take Lizzie to see Santa - perhaps she would axe for a whack or two!

10 cents worth of Prussic Acid. It would save her a disappointing trip to the drugstore.

Some fishing lures and a diary.

That's a good one Scott! Yes a Diary!!

Yes, a diary is the perfect gift.

Yes it would be, and it would take an army decoder to read it!!! If she'd have left one, they'd probably still be trying to figure out what she said! lol

I think a diary would be good. And some prussic acid to, just to humor her.

The address of a GOOD Public Relations Firm.

Look what they did for John D. Rockefeller!!

Yes a good public relations firm would be good, but no sharp objects lol!

If I felt she was not guilty, and she was my friend, I would probably give her:

1. A small dog to keep her company,

2. A complete fishing outfit with plenty of sinkers,

3. Lessons on how to trade stocks for a living,

4. A season's pass for the Opera,

5. A big hug and a card that just says, "I love you, Lizzie."

I can't really think of anything else right now.

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Gee BigSteve! You'd give Lizbeth stock? When did the stock market start do you know? I had visions of her at least dying before she lost everything in the Crash!

Kat @ Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:23 pm wrote:Gee BigSteve! You'd give Lizbeth stock? When did the stock market start do you know? I had visions of her at least dying before she lost everything in the Crash!

I had the impression that Snokks ment if Lizzie was living in our day. The Market started in the 1700's. I wouldn't give Lizzie any stocks but I would sit her down in front of her own computer and teach her how to buy and sell her own and make a living doing it. People who lost their shirts in the Crash of '29 were the ones that treated the Market like a Bank and you NEVER do that! The Market goes up and the Market goes down. I get in and out on the short term runs. Thats how you make a living at it. $ $

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Harry @ Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:36 pm wrote:Yes, a diary is the perfect gift.

Dear Diary:

I bought a hatchet today...

-Lizzie




-1bigsteve (o:

A partridge (or maybe just pidgeons) in a pear tree.

Angel @ Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:47 am wrote:A partridge (or maybe just pidgeons) in a pear tree.

OMG...too funny !





Tracy...

A new set of nerves, I bet hers was shot!!!!

Or a some nerve pills!!! Double doseage.

There was a stock market c. 1700's?

I noticed most of the gifts mentioned would have been suitable for any century, including prussic acid- and a Brownie camera- so I guess we are all thinking of gifts that transcend time!

I don't know if there was a stock market (thinking maybe there was) but if lizzie had her fathers smarts for making money(?) she would have figured out how to play the stock market. But I am sure there were many things to give her that you could give a person today.

"Wall Street" was a dirt path that ran along a wall of brush and mud that was built along side the path shortly after New York was founded as a Dutch trading post in 1609. It was built to keep cows and Indians out. Indians were allowed to come through and trade in about 1626 when they sold Manhattan for $24.00 and some beads. They traded goods but not securities in the 1600's. The first securities exchange took place in Philadelphia in 1790. In the 1780's-1790's Wall Street started forming into what it is today, with the help of Congress.

Now, does anyone know how to read a stock chart? It is a "must know" if you want to make a living at trading. Relying on "fundamentals" alone (as most people do) is not enough. That is why most people lose money in the Markets, or make very little. Learning "technicals" is like going to medical school with all the books and long hours studying but once you have arived you can do real good.

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