“Murder By Numbers”
Once that you’ve decided on a killing,
First you make a stone of your heart.
And if you find that your hands are still willing,
Then you can turn a murder into art.There really isn’t any need for bloodshed,
You just do it with a little more finesse.
If you can slip a tablet into someone’s coffee,
Then it avoids an awful lot of mess.It’s murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3,
It’s as easy to learn as your ABC.
Murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3,
It’s as easy to learn as your ABC.Now if you have a taste for this experience
And you’re flushed with your very first success,
Then you must try a twosome or a threesome
And you’ll find your conscience bothers you much lessBecause murder is like anything you take to
It’s a habit-forming need for more and more.
You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a boreBecause it’s murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3,
It’s as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3,
It’s as easy to learn as your ABC.Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history’s great dark hall of fame.
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name.But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land,
For murder is the sport of the elected,
And you don’t need to lift a finger of your handBecause it’s murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3,
It’s as easy to learn as your ABC.
Murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3,
It’s as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E,……….
“Can those two take this plunge off the edge of the world? Or would it cause their heads to explode?”
Jeffrey was counting on his regular readers not to pick up on exactly who he was referring to in his opening paragraph. He was counting on those named to take it shuddering in silence.
Watchful Navigator 
Comments on: "Jeffrey Augustine “Humor” Goes Dark" (2)
Oh please! We in RTC definitely did not have Scott Gordon in mind when we mentioned a “poodle-faced weirdo.” That’s pure dub in on your part Scott. A joke is ruined when it needs to be explained. However, to relieve your overheated imagination, “their little poodle-faced weirdo friend” who is “disturbingly insane” refers to Miles Copeland Jr.
The song “Murder by Numbers” was posted to refer to the late Miles Copeland Jr. and his disturbingly insane penchant for dismissing CIA violence, assassinations, lethal experiments, etc as a game. Take, for example, this excerpt from Why America is losing ‘the game’ by Mark Burdman, 21 September 1989:
“But for the full flavor of (Copeland’s mind), read the passage where Copeland discusses CIA-sponsored drug experiments (these were part of what became known as “MK-Ultra,” although Copeland doesn’t use that term): “The projects that drew the attention of the Church Committee were all conducted outside the CIA by scientists and pseudo-scientists employed by universities and pharmaceutical companies under contract to the CIA for what we understood would be strictly experimental. It never hurts to know what can be done. So these ‘scientists,’ or whatever they were, made pharmaceuticals that could make a ‘target’ tell the truth, hallucinate, behave self destructively or even drop dead for no detectable cause. It was pretty entertaining stuff . . . But we were as much surprised as the general public when the story broke about the poor guy, to whom some experimenter had fed an LSD pill, who plunged out of a tenth-story window of a Washington hotel screaming, ‘Look, Mom, I can fly!’ Senator Church, who already had a bead drawn on the CIA, failed to appreciate the comic side of the event, and when his investigators delved deeper into the most arcane corners of the CIA they found experiments in germ warfare, personality alteration, memory erasure, assassination and God knows what else. But their existence didn’t indicate evil so much as they illustrated, once again, what can go on in the basements and attics of a dream factory like the CIA if its top people aren’t forever watchful.”
Miles Copeland Jr. considered the lethal experimentation of the CIA to be, “pretty entertaining stuff.”
The CIA fed an unwitting man LSD. The man jumped to his death. Copeland then chillingly wrote that Senator Frank Church, “failed to appreciate the comic side of the event.”
The late Miles Copeland Jr. was a “murder by numbers” guy and the song referred to him. This is why we prefaced by the song by writing, “They think Miles was serious? How about upgrading the man to dangerous and deranged? Those two take his books at face value and have never even once tried pulling the man’s withholds.”
BTW, Scott, here is our song for you:
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