It’s the tension, isn’t it?
Everybody has gone silent, all of us standing around like uninvited guests at a wedding. We wait. Is Gordon Cramer right, is Nick P’s non-committal position wrong, is my ambivalence misplaced, have we all been fooled, is Derek Abbott right, is Xanthe Mallett right, is Carl Webb the man, is Richard Webb the man. Will the SA coroner explain the mysterious circumstances of the Somerton Man’s death, will he be able to explain the relationship between him and Nurse Harkness, .. the missing Rubaiyat and the disappearing chemist Freeman?
So much to do, so little time.
Where did he die?
How did he die?
What killed him?
And who knew what?
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The Somerton Man .. 
Obviously the Somerton Man mystery stands no chance against South Australia’s forensic finest.
I mean, who would even guess that they recovered no usable DNA, then didn’t bother to do any secondary tests, and have basically wasted everyone’s time waiting for nothing?
And what kind of a disbelieving monster would bet on such an outcome? I hear Ladbrokes have this at 2/1.
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Don’t be coy, NicholasP, what do you know we don’t?
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I now have a good idea of how a pork pie feels at a Bar Mitzvah, come to think, do pork pies have feelings?
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I’ve known a few to get a bit crusty.
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And a few looking a mite pasty
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I’d say we’re done here
The only stone unturned would be the Pan Am passenger lists
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So who’s going to play Vladimir and who’ll be Estragon?
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There is definitely tension in the air. But can I slide sideways a bit? Given that our plaster master was also building a marine creature cast, and we had a card carrying marine scientist in Oz in the mid and late 1940’s and again in 1966, would anyone know of a covert type of paralysing marine toxin of the time?
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Jo, matey .. maybe you can explain what Dave Morgan is on about over at CM, I mean the bloke writes up about a dozen comments a day and seems to be inferring SM is what? A newspaper reporter named Spotter or some mystery man called ‘The Loiterer’?
I can’t follow the bloke, can you?
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He’s convinced Carl was The Spotter, a reporter at the Camperdown Chronicle, which he wasn’t. He’s also convinced that Judith Thornley, Roger Henderson and Robert Manifold are caught up with the saga, which I don’t think they were. The Manifolds are/were Camperdown squatocracy, Judith Thornley was a Camperdown socialite and Roger Henderson was the grandson of a British peer. Judith married Roger, who died in WWII (he was a pilot), she then married her childhood friend Robert Manifold, a bloke with a lot of Victorian Western district land and a house on Domain Road, South Yarra, which in more recent times was a gangster hangout. That’s the gist of it…
Here’s the (rather nice) South Yarra house: https://www.urban.com.au/news/vic/mohonga-south-yarra-underbelly-trophy-home-sells And here’s the modest, former Manifold family homestead, which features murals telling of how the Manifolds seized the land around Lake Purumbete, near Camperdown, while the traditional owners looked on and then worked for them: https://federationhome.com/2018/08/13/purrumbete-homestead-camperdown/.
David has also reported that he has been quite unwell and undergoing radiation treatment.
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Thanks Jo, and I wish him all the best, though his theories are a little Byron Bay hinterland, if you know what I mean.
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It’s just gobbledygook
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