Burnt's blog thing

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

I'm thinking about using this as a training film for my kids. Whaddya think?

At 12:30 PM, Mark said...: This is great! I'd like to show it some kids, too, but my van's in the shop.

Seriously though, you're probably already aware that Spring-Heeled Jack was one of the most popular of the Victorian Penny Dreadful characters:

http://www.geocities.com/justingilb/texts/SpringHeeledJack.html

If I remember correctly, he was actually based on a real highwayman (and was an aristocrat, at that).
At 12:38 PM, Mark said...: Weird--it didn't put my name on the post. Oh well, in case you haven't guessed, it's me.

Mark
At 5:36 PM, Burntdisk said...: Gee, a new use for driving around looking for kids for ya. And ya won't even need to keep a bag of candy with ya ;-)