Priceless 'pointless'...

[janzman]

..on Pointless yesterday

Category.. 'Assassinations'

Question..Who was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas?

Answer..JR

Brilliant, just brilliant.

[sandyRoe]

He got JR, too? He was one bad dude.

[Baldric]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1422198.html

[MargoTester]

Nearly as good as 'name a bird with a long neck' answer Naomi Campbell!!

[ummmm]

Youngsters...Lol. JR was shot quite a long time ago :-)

[Prudie]

^ very true, JR was shot round 1980 so even if you were 10 when you watched it you'd be 45 now.

[sandyRoe]

And JFK was shot more than 50 years ago. How many who had been about then would know much about the assassination of another President, McKinney, some 60 years earlier?

[Baldric]

I don't think McKinney formed any part of the question?

[sandyRoe]

He didn't. Just saying...

[Baldric]

Ah, ok, I just thought it seemed rather pointless!

[Prudie]

^ not quite, 2 people had heard of him :-)

[Baldric]

;o)

[Peter Pedant]

6 Sep 1901 - Buffalo
I thought everyone knew that

I cant find the photo of him mounting the steps of the Temple of music seconds before he was shot

Randolph Hearst's organs ( newspapers actually ) castigated him for heing the capitalists' darling so that it was feared that the anarchists who read the papers ( !!) would try to assassinate himi
( and they did )

Hey talking about pointless things
did anyone see Dicko's Deal and the documents on the massacre at Wormhout ?

They were clearly clueless about that
Evil deed done by SS ( Adolf Htiler liebstandard regiment ) the same folks that brought you the massacre at Malmedy in 1944 - and it was successfullly pleaded that all those at Wormhout had died at Stalingrad.

AND .... piper who was convicted over Malmedy ( 1946) was later acquitted on the grounds thar the German interrogators the Americans had retained had beaten the confessions out of them. ( Amercans were in no way able to resist the appeal oops ! )

and Yes ! no one on Dicko's Deal knew that !

[mushroom25]

i'm barely old enough to remember JFK - or the episode of doctor who that was screened on the same day.

so I don't remember who was assassinated in 1901; the only mckinney i remember had a predilection for mormon boys and beds with chains attached.

[Baldric]

^^^ ???

[Baldric]

That ^^^ ??? was @ PP

[sandyRoe]

A collection of papers turn up that's worth nearly a grand. It would have put a damper on things if it had been revealed that American mistreatment of prisoners had allowed a murderer to walk free.
Sometimes it seems best not to delve too deep.

[retrocop]

Baldric
You really didn't need to clarify that. :-)

[sandyRoe]

Mushroom25, I still remember that particular McKInney's picture on the front of the News of the World. She was a well rounded young woman.

[kirkcudbright]

William McKinley was 25th president.
I saw the Pointless gaffe thought it was hilarious !