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{{quote|''Take me out at the ball game,'' |
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''Take me out in the crowds;'' |
''Take me out in the crowds;'' |
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''Hit me with poison and a car jack,'' |
''Hit me with poison and a car jack,'' |
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''I don't care if I'm stabbed in the back.'' |
''I don't care if I'm stabbed in the back.'' |
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''Let me die, die, die on the home plate,'' |
''Let me die, die, die on the home plate,'' |
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''If they don't weep, it's a shame.'' |
''If they don't weep, it's a shame.'' |
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''For it's one, two, three hits, you're dead,'' |
''For it's one, two, three hits, you're dead,'' |
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''At the old ball game.'' }} |
''At the old ball game.'' }} |
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* Dick Francis' novel ''Nerve'' begins with a jockey shooting himself in front of a big racing audience. |
* Dick Francis' novel ''Nerve'' begins with a jockey shooting himself in front of a big racing audience. |
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* [[Father Brown]] in [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Father_Brown/Chapter_9 'The God Of The Gongs'] |
* [[Father Brown]] in [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Father_Brown/Chapter_9 'The God Of The Gongs'] |
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{{quote|"For an intelligent murderer, such as you or I might be, it is an impossible plan to make sure that nobody is looking at you." |
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"But what other plan is there?" |
"But what other plan is there?" |
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"There is only one," said the priest. "To make sure that everybody is looking at something else. A man is throttled close by the big stand at Epsom. Anybody might have seen it done while the stand stood empty--any tramp under the hedges or motorist among the hills. But nobody would have seen it when the stand was crowded and the whole ring roaring, when the favourite was coming in first--or wasn't. The twisting of a neck-cloth, the thrusting of a body behind a door could be done in an instant-- so long as it was that instant." }} |
"There is only one," said the priest. "To make sure that everybody is looking at something else. A man is throttled close by the big stand at Epsom. Anybody might have seen it done while the stand stood empty--any tramp under the hedges or motorist among the hills. But nobody would have seen it when the stand was crowded and the whole ring roaring, when the favourite was coming in first--or wasn't. The twisting of a neck-cloth, the thrusting of a body behind a door could be done in an instant-- so long as it was that instant." }} |
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