Its Christmas. Lets sing....

[bigscoop]

It's Christmas. Let's sing....

"Oh Christmas Beale, oh Christmas Beale....." Oh wait, it's bells, not Beale. My bad.

 

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[TheRingFinder]

 

[releventchair]

In the air there's a slight touch ;of madness. Silver Beales....

 

[bigscoop]

Blame the eggnog, campaign, and the family Christmas still.

 

[ECS]

"Oh Christmas Beale, oh Christmas Beale....." Oh wait, it's bells, not Beale. My bad.

Ah, a reference to a poem by Edgar Allen Poe-When "Mexico" Sherman returned to Baltimore offices of Patterson's Canton Co, he had Poe create the Beale ciphers.
Merry Christmas, BigScoop

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Blame the eggnog, campaign, and the family Christmas still.

At the TIKI BAR...? !!! Watch out for the BEE ALE... it is "SPIKED"!

 

[ibjeepn]

Jingle Beales, Jingle Beales, jingle all the way !

 

[Rebel - KGC]

(And NOW... speaking in Ed Sullivan voice), "Un NEOWWW... singing a NEW song for 2015! GEORGE HARRISON (in the "Spirit)... DING DONG, DING DONG!" Strumming guitar... "DING DONG, DING DONG! Out with the OLD... in with the NEW."

NEW R & I, from here...

 

[Rebel - KGC]

For ME... looking for ORIGINAL Law of Nations by Vattel; Did CSA have it in FRENCH, English...? Looking for MORE info about the CSA/VMI "connections"; POST-Confederacy War info in Lynchburg, Va.; INNER COMMITTEE/SECRET meeting in 1882 (WHO), we know the WHERE... Arlington Hotel! The WHY...? Create the "PATCHWORK" of the Beale PAPERS... from stories of PAST real events, books, dime novels of the past; culled together (mixed), with "ciphers" as RUSES, putting in the DOI as BROADSIDE "blast" at "King" Abe by Copper-heads/KGC ELITE TEAM of VMI alumni CSA OFFICERS... EXCITING R & I, to COME!