Originally Posted by
fortinian
Apparently he only votes when the vote is tied and then he always votes in favour of the motion. True utilitarianism, even in death.
Ha ha, only in Britain? IOW, he'd champion a cause, but would still remain in the closet.
Originally Posted by
fortinian
I've tried to find a copy of his will but to no avail - Carlyle is a wonderful one for quoting his sources
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That's one for Frank then - otherwise it gets filed in the unsubstantiated fact bin.
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Originally Posted by
fortinian
John Reppion (a writer and poster on these forums) pointed out in his '800 Years of Haunted Liverpool' that there is a very famous story about a man buried in a pyramid called 'Mad Jack Fuller' but apparently that is untrue as well although the pyramid was built before he died and he was buried underneath it.
Amazing - he went into the afterlife armed with... a
'full dress and top hat seated at a table set with a roast chicken and a bottle of wine'. I'm not saying this is wrong - it obviously worked for him, as a royal flush did for Mackenzie.
I've just read Dan Brown's
The Lost Symbol, so forgive me for asking - but was William Mackenzie a mason?
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