Sunday, August 24, 2025

Dead Ringer Tell-Tail Ring-In Stains

 The following notable person recently added to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site stands out: 

Eugen Gomringer , 100, Bolivian-born Swiss poet

 His surname is an addition to the “Word in Name” pattern cluster, and so providing us with “ringer”.  So all we need to do is decipher their meaning.  What comes immediately to mind is “dead ringer”: 

Dead ringer is an idiom in English denoting a person or thing that closely resembles another. It dates back to the 19th century.[1]

Bold Personality, who ran in place of Fine Cotton in a 1984 race, is a notable example of a ringer in the horseracing sense

In criminal slang, the practice of substituting a cheap item for a valuable one was known as ringing the changes (a phrase derived from campanology).[2] Those who practised this con were known as ringers. The term ringer was also used in horseracing, where it denoted someone who fraudently substituted one horse for another, as well as the horse that had been substituted

I did not know of the horse connection until now, you learn something new every day!!  

As you can see, the notable “ringer” incident mentioned on the dead ringer wiki page had put up a photo of the faster horse, Bold Personality, who was used in a con to replace the slower horse, Fine Cotton. I read an article about it and was amazed at the efforts that went into the scam.  They even attempted to die Bold Personality’s hair/coat and spray paint on white “socks” above the back hooves to resemble that of Fine Cotton.  They got caught shortly after the “ringer” won, and onlookers in the crowd noticed white paint that mixed with the horse sweat had begun to run, and they began shouting “ ring-in” (term used mostly in horse racing).  I investigated some of the notable individuals who are mentioned in the scam: 

 Bill and Robbie Waterhouse were caught up in the aftermath of the Fine Cotton affair.[4] Bill and Robbie Waterhouse were warned-off racecourses for having prior knowledge of a ring-in being installed in a race.

Robbie Waterhouse’s wikipedia page doesn’t include his birthday, butt there’s his father, his wife, and father-in-law, whose birthdays are included: 

Note that Gai Waterhouse’s father had passed away on her birthday… and one day before his own birthday, and so generating a “__, September 2(x2), 3, __/Date Sequence” pattern cluster

Getting back now to Eugen Gomringer, note from his wiki page: 

Eugen Gomringer (20 January 1925 – 21 August 2025)

His birthday stands out given some of my own close family birthdays: my brother (January 19), my daughter (January 21) and my Grandson (January 23), that generates a “January 19, 20, 21,__, 23/Date Sequence” pattern cluster. To bridge the January 22 gap we use the formula as per usual, and so venture to the January 22 Wikipedia page to the List of Notable Deaths, where we limit our search to the years having a sequence of 3 identical numbers at the end: 

As you can see, although Graham Stains is listed as having died on January 22nd, he actually died on the 23rd (so a mistake, … BUTT, still another inner twin design influence…, so Stains is here for a reason), AND his surname is another addition to the “Word in Name” pattern cluster, providing us with “stain”, AND, note the etymology: 

mid-14c., steinen, "ornament with a design;" late 14c., "damage or blemish the appearance of," also "impart color, dye;" the word is probably a merger of Old Norse steina "to paint, color, stain," 

As you can see, we have a reference to “dye” and “paint”… a cryptic connection to the dying and painting of Bold Personality in the ring-in scam!! As well, Stains January 18th birthday is an addition to the cluster as well, expanding it now into a “January 18, 19, 20, 21,__, 23/Date Sequence” pattern cluster.  AND, … Craig Claiborne’s birthday is an addition to the cluster above, expanding it now into a  “__, September 2(x2), 3, 4, __/Date Sequence” pattern cluster.  It makes me think that Anne Hebert’s birthday factors in somehow,… hmmm, perhaps we should venture back to the Deaths in 2025 site to investigate those who passed away on August 1st?!  I think I’ll wait on that.  

Because Gomringer’s birthday and date of Death are additions to the “Off By One” pattern cluster , (as in one off from my brothers and daughters birthday and one off from my fathers birthday of August 20).  This is a prompt to check out those listed in the years immediately above 2000  and below 1999, and so bringing us to : 
What is interesting with the surname Agee is that it has the word “gee” in it— horse terminology… as in “gee to the right” (the opposite being “hawe to the left”).  There’s also the name “Brown”… given that the intended dye used to stain Bold Personality’s coat, was “brown” (Clairol hair dye), butt instead of turning it brown, his coat turned Bright Red!!  

On checking this blogs stats earlier today, I noted that the title of one of my posts “read” (aka “red”) by someone in the last 24 hours,  jives: 






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