Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JHP who wrote (95346)	4/1/2002 3:43:35 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

John, Arsenic got a bum rap, all right. A lot of it has to do with Cary Grant and his two sweet, murderous aunts. Nobody put the blame for the deaths squarely where it belonged in that play: on the Old Lace. <g> However, I have never completely bought into the Napoleon story. Ol' Nap had gut problems way before he moved to St. Helena. It was the major physical complaint of his last years as a general and kept him out of the saddle. Nor do I believe that the English poisoned him to keep him from escaping St. Helena. The odds of rescue were nil off the coast of West Africa rather than a rowboat ride from Europe on Elba.