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  • #1

    Hunter S. Thompson is no more

    Killed himself this weekend...hardly surprising, but still a shame.
    All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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  • #2
    Re: Hunter S. Thompson is no more

    Originally posted by lecter
    Killed himself this weekend...
    No s*it?!!! Gotta hit the headlines ...
    <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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    • #3
      I have the urge to fire up "Where the Buffalo Roam" today.
      <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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      • #4
        Who? Sorry, I don't know the name. What did he do?


        Jeff
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        people just don't know They're dead yet!

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        • #5
          I was just going to ask that. Seems like its big news, but I never heard of the guy or anything he did.
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          • #6
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Duty
              Who? Sorry, I don't know the name. What did he do? ...
              Kids!

              Gonzo journalist. You may also recognize Hunter S. as the character "Uncle Duke" in the Doonesbury comic strip.

              I can tell I've gotten well past the median age around here these days. Seems most folks here aren't even 30 years old. Oh well ... I like MURC because it keeps me in touch with the youth.
              Last edited by xortam; 21 February 2005, 20:09.
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              • #8
                hmm, i thought most of the guys are 30 or older ...

                Time for Sasq to make an average age information available ...
                "Women don't want to hear a man's opinion, they just want to hear their opinion in a deeper voice."

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                • #9
                  ... "Douglas Brinkley, a historian and author who has edited some of Thompson's work, said the founder of "gonzo" journalism shot himself Sunday night after weeks of pain from a host of physical problems that included a broken leg and a hip replacement.

                  I think he made a conscious decision that he had an incredible run of 67 years, lived the way he wanted to, and wasn't going to suffer the indignities of old age," Brinkley said in a telephone interview from Aspen. "He was not going to let anybody dictate how he was going to die." ...
                  Sounds true to form.
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                  • #10
                    "We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs
                    began to take hold. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of
                    mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full
                    of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers,
                    laughers. Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of
                    raw ether, two dozen amyls.....Not that we needed all that for the trip, but
                    once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as
                    far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There
                    is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a
                    man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten
                    stuff pretty soon. No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. Poor
                    bastard will see them soon enough."

                    Goodbye Mr. Thompson...

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