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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 04/27/2012 : 22:05:46
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If you know this face, please post the name below.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/28/2012 : 02:27:41 [Permalink]
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| Hint #1: Whatever else one might say about him, the man had a gift for selling soap. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
435 Posts |
Posted - 04/28/2012 : 03:37:38 [Permalink]
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| Randolph Jefferson Smith II, commonly known to his enemies as "Soapy" Smith. |
“In a modern...society, everybody has the absolute right to believe whatever they damn well please, but they don't have the same right to be taken seriously”.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/28/2012 : 04:05:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by podcat
Randolph Jefferson Smith II, commonly known to his enemies as "Soapy" Smith.
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Yes! Congrats! And Soapy Smith mostly had enemies. Smith was an accomplished short-con artist, employing shills. He headed one of the most dangerous and powerful gangs of the Old West, and later of Alaska.
Soapy controlled Skagway, Alaska, the gateway to the gold fields of Canada's Klondike. He extracted every penny he could from both the hopeful miners headed up the White Pass Trail toward Canada, as well as the few fortunate enough to return with gold from the Klondike.
Appropriately enough, Smith died like a dog, shot down at age 38 on the Juneau Warf in Skagway.
I'll bet our absent friend, Filthy, who collected such people in his Rogue's Gallery, could tell us a great deal more about Soapy Smith. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 04/28/2012 04:11:17 |
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