Re: Big Pins

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:57:43 -0000, "John Dean"
<john-dean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>artyw2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> On Mar 1, 11:30 am, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> "Made from castor beans, ricin can kill in amounts as small as 500
>>> mg, or about what it would take to cover the head of a pin,
>>> according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
>>>
>>> Big pins, those.  This was from The Wa****ngton Times.
>>
>> There was a famous case in which  ricin toxin on the end of an
>> umbrella was used as a murder weapon. I think the killer was a
>> Bulgarian spy.
>
>Uh huh
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov
>
>The Markov case is well known here. As is the Litvinenko case. As is the 
>penchant the KGB have for killing people in England in exotic ways. We're

>getting pretty damn tired of it, I can tell you.

Not your fault. If I were a billionaire Russian expatriate with a
penchant for pissing off TPTB, I think I'd sell the English estate and
move to the States.