Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Who says American TV is a vast wasteland? Look what we all learned today! <g> cheers, frank Peter Klein wrote: > One of the old "Murder, She Wrote" episodes involved Ricardo Montalbon as a > Yugoslavian concert pianist who killed his wife. His "out" was that he > couldn't have fired the gun. He had come home drunk, spilled a bottle of > Slivovitz in the wastebasket, and then badly burned his hands when he > accidently set it alight after throwing his lit cigar into the same > wastebasket. > > Jessica Fletcher's urbane British friend Dennis Stanton, ex-jewel thief > turned insurance investigator, fingered Ricardo. Turns out that Ricardo's > character had been a partisan in Yugoslavia in WWII. He had been tortured, > and developed the ability to withstand extreme pain. He was also > developing a neurological disorder that would soon end his concert > career. Knowing this, he staged the "accident" with the Slivovitz, then > shot his wife, figuring that the police would not suspect that a man with > severely burned hands could fire a gun. As a concert pianist, his hands > were insured for millions. He would collect a big insurance settlement, > and then live happily ever after with his luscious young female student. > > Moral: Stay away from Slivovitz. The stuff was the rocket fuel in a secret > Eastern European space program. > > --Peter Klein > Seattle, WA > - -- "What a senseless waste of human life" - -The Customer in Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html