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* One of the American [[The Wild West|Wild West's]] greatest [[Truth in Television|real]] killers was the poorly remembered John Wesley Hardin. He is commonly credited with inventing throwing cards into the air and shooting them as they fall, for instance, but was also said to practice his quick-draw in front of a mirror for hours a day. Then, there was the whole [[Disproportionate Retribution|shooting a man for snoring too loudly]] thing. |
* One of the American [[The Wild West|Wild West's]] greatest [[Truth in Television|real]] killers was the poorly remembered John Wesley Hardin. He is commonly credited with inventing throwing cards into the air and shooting them as they fall, for instance, but was also said to practice his quick-draw in front of a mirror for hours a day. Then, there was the whole [[Disproportionate Retribution|shooting a man for snoring too loudly]] thing. |
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** He's probably better known for inspiring the name (and the name only) of a [[Bob Dylan]] album (''John Wesley Harding''). |
** He's probably better known for inspiring the name (and the name only) of a [[Bob Dylan]] album (''John Wesley Harding''). |
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* A running reference in Chuck Shepherd's ''News of the Weird'' column is that there seem to be an awful lot of murderers with [http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html the middle name "Wayne"]. |
* A running reference in Chuck Shepherd's ''News of the Weird'' column is that there seem to be an awful lot of murderers with [https://web.archive.org/web/20131207162105/http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html the middle name "Wayne"]. |
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* Mehmet Ali Ağca, who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 and previously murdered journalist Abdi İpekçi. |
* Mehmet Ali Ağca, who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 and previously murdered journalist Abdi İpekçi. |
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* Jerry Seinfeld, on the allegations that his wife was plagiarizing another author's cookbook idea (each book happens to be about making healthy—yet inconspicuously tasty—meals for their kids; Missy Chase Lapine's is "The Sneaky Chef", while Jessica Seinfeld's is "Deceptively Delicious"). Seinfeld, in his wife's defense, appeared on talk shows joking around at how he's noticed assassins tend to often have, like Lapine, three names—Mark David Chapman, James Earl Ray, etc. (This, naturally, caused a bit of a [http://gawker.com/5072344/jerry-seinfeld-devastates-wifes-rival-by-calling-her-an-assassin stink].) |
* Jerry Seinfeld, on the allegations that his wife was plagiarizing another author's cookbook idea (each book happens to be about making healthy—yet inconspicuously tasty—meals for their kids; Missy Chase Lapine's is "The Sneaky Chef", while Jessica Seinfeld's is "Deceptively Delicious"). Seinfeld, in his wife's defense, appeared on talk shows joking around at how he's noticed assassins tend to often have, like Lapine, three names—Mark David Chapman, James Earl Ray, etc. (This, naturally, caused a bit of a [http://gawker.com/5072344/jerry-seinfeld-devastates-wifes-rival-by-calling-her-an-assassin stink].) |
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