This is a followup to my October 19th post re: Bum Phillips RIIP: Marine Raiders and Sea Pirates. The post investigates the October 18, 2013 death of Bum Phillips, where on following the leads found on his wiki page, the surname "Gillman" had cropped up, which happens to be my step sons first name. The fact that Bum had been a "Marine Raider" also jives with the word "Pirate" which crops up in the previous post re http://pronoiasecrets.blogspot.ca/2013/10/tom-foley-riip-one-off-66.html, where on investigating Tom Foley, also listed on the Deaths in 2013 site under Ocober18, reveals that the etymology of his surname, "Foley", is "Pirate". What we now have in the process of forming, is the new "Marine Raider/Pirate/Pi Rate..." pattern-cluster category.
In the Bum Phillips post, I considered the word "Pirate" as an addition to the recent "Phrases in Names/words" pattern-cluster, due to the fact that it could be broken down into the cryptic phrase "Pi rate". This made particular sense given that "Pi" is also a mathematical formula and given that
Gillman has his Doctorate in the "Philosophy of Math and Science".
Note the following from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi:
following:
In the Bum Phillips post, I considered the word "Pirate" as an addition to the recent "Phrases in Names/words" pattern-cluster, due to the fact that it could be broken down into the cryptic phrase "Pi rate". This made particular sense given that "Pi" is also a mathematical formula and given that
Gillman has his Doctorate in the "Philosophy of Math and Science".
Note the following from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi:
The number π is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and is approximately equal to 3.14159.Now I decided to go on another tangent-- that a film that I watched about a month ago called "Life of Pi" somehow factors in. Essentially the movie is about a shipwrecked boy forced to share a life boat with a Bengal tiger named "Richard Parker", note this excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi_(film)
The storyline revolves around a 16-year-old Indian boy named Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, who survives a shipwreck in which his family dies, and is stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.Because there's a link in the name Richard Parker, I decided to click on it, where I then noted the
following:
Richard Parker is the name of several people in real life and fiction who became shipwrecked, with some of them subsequently being cannibalised by their fellow seamen:
- In Edgar Allan Poe's only novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, published in 1838, Richard Parker is a mutinous sailor on the whaling ship Grampus. After the ship capsizes in a storm, he and three other survivors draw lots upon Parker's suggestion to kill one of them to sustain the others. Parker then gets cannibalized.
- In 1846, the Francis Spaight foundered at sea. Apprentice Richard Parker was among the twenty-one drowning victims of that incident, though there were no cases of cannibalism.[1][2]
- In 1884, the yacht Mignonette sank. Four people survived and drifted in a life boat before one of them, the cabin boy Richard Parker, was killed by the others for food. This led to the R v Dudley
- and Stephens criminal case.[3][4]
Another Richard Parker was involved in the Spithead and Nore mutinies in 1797 and subsequently hanged, but not eaten.[5]
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