The "Everything" site!

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:50 pm

Lot of "facts" I never heard of at this site. Some of them stunningly inaccurate.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Lizzie%20Borden

bobarth · Post by **bobarth** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:04 pm

Harry any truth at all to Lizzie having worked in the library? First time I have seen that??See below for quote

Lizzie is afforded many specialties as one of the wealthier youths in the area - she graduates high school and spends many of her free days working at the library and reading books.

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:15 pm

First time I ever heard of it, Bobbie. IMO, it's HIGHLY doubtful.

She didn't graduate from high school either.

bobarth · Post by **bobarth** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:30 pm

There is certainly a lot of mistakes but you have to wonder, just where do they get their information. Eli Bence and Lizzie were high school friends? That is new to me too. Wonder if the ages are even close? Oh and the barn is now 120 degrees. It is fun spotting the errors and frustrating that there is so much misinformation out there.

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:39 pm

There's some whoppers in there. Here's a good one describing Abbie's wounds:

"Contrary to the poem, she only received eighteen blows from the axe. Her face is literally crushed to a pulp by the sheer force of the blows. Her skull is split in 6 places. Both of her shoulders are dislocated, and she is disemboweled by a sweeping vertical blow to her front side. Mercifully, the autopsy suggests she is dead by the first or second blow."

Huh! I missed 90% of that in my previous readings.

Sadly, it cites LizzieAndrewBorden.com as one of the sources. Jeesh!

bobarth · Post by **bobarth** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:01 pm

Disemboweled, that sure was one hatchet job!!!!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:59 pm

This is what I get when I click on your link.

Am I the only one?

bobarth · Post by **bobarth** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:13 pm

I just checked the link. It worked fine for me, went right to the article.

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:19 pm

How curious! Sometimes I get the web site, other times I get what Kat got.

The spirit of Lizzie is haunting that site- it's that bad.

BaAz5 · Post by **BaAz5** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:34 pm

Took me three tries but I finally got there. Interesting, at least it has a few bits of truth in it. I am certainly glad that is not the first thing I read about Lizzie, don't know if (from that) I would have been reading anymore.

twinsrwe · Post by **twinsrwe** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:16 am

I tried to get into the web site three times yesterday- changed my browser and still could not get in; I was getting the same thing as Kat. I tried it again today and it worked! ( ??? ) I printed out the article.