Y’all be sure to like and share the YouTube video. We have three dislikes from trolls that need to be counterbalanced! Here’s the link again:

http://youtu.be/e9SdiMjfJLs

Jamie: So he was trying to find the source of what told the body to create the electrical signals that made life. He’s still resting his fingertips on the table.

Erik: Did you find what you were looking for?

Jack the Ripper: No, I did not.

Me: Okay,. When you crossed over, what was your life review like, and what epiphanies did you have, if any?

(I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes!)

Jack the Ripper: You must understand that I only took the lowest of lives. I never sacrificed anyone who was a viable—

(Is someone making excuses?)

Jamie (sheepishly, to John the Ripper.): I don’t know that word.

(Pause)

Jamie: The guy’s intelligent! He’s not a freak. Um, he likes to use big, fat words, and I’m lost!

I laugh.

(I beg to differ on the freak part, but I guess even serial killers need love and understanding. Do they?)

Jamie: He did not take people who were viable to society that would make society grow.

Jack the Ripper: You must understand that when it came to my time to do my life review, I was very pleased with my work and my discovery. My deepest disappointment was that what I discovered was not published in the proper way for other people to learn about how the human body functions.

Me: Well, would you like us to publish it for you?

Erik: You actually were able to publish things?

Jack the Ripper: Yes, through other people.

Erik: So other people knew you were doing what you were doing?

John the Ripper. (turning to Erik): No, I was able to disguise it underneath my medical profession as if I stumbled across these discoveries, when really it was my nighttime career.

Jamie chuckles.

Me: Ah! Moonlighting!

Jamie: Did anyone find out?

Jack the Ripper: Nobody ever knew.

Me: Yeah, I did not know that! So, moonlighting as you did, are you saying that you’re publishing these things now from the afterlife as a muse for other scientific writers or did you publish them when you were alive?

Jack the Ripper: While I was alive.

Me: Okay. Would you like us to publish your findings? Would you like to share what you found with the world?

(Long pause)

Jack the Ripper: Science has already preceded my knowledge of what I discovered about the human body while I was on earth. The work I do now—

(Long pause)

Me: Mm hm?

Jamie (squeamishly): Aw, he’s showing me these creepy pictures, um, people with their skins taken off.

Me: Oh, no! Oof! Tell him to please stop.

Jamie (puzzled): He’s talking about it being related solely to science.

Me: Mm, hm.

Jamie: The-the-the Bodies Exhibit guy!

Me: Oh, yes. That guy. I can’t remember his name, but yeah.

Jamie: He’s not American; he’s foreign.

Me: Yeah. I don’t know. (Although I went to the exhibit in Las Vegas!) Russian or something? I don’t know.

Jack the Ripper: I work with that man.

Me: Oh, okay! Interesting.

(I discover later that the creator of Body Worlds is Gunther von Hagens, but I believe there are more than one such exhibits, including one overseen, conducted and marketed by the Chinese government.)

Jack the Ripper: It’s the intrigue for the physical body, It’s the passion; it’s the drive for knowledge of how things work and how they look.

Me: Okay.

Here are some lovely photos that you’re most welcome to use on your Christmas cards this year. Hope you didn’t eat breakfast yet. Talk about a great diet plan. Put on of these on the fridge.