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If you MUST post rants and raves, at least try to make them coherent, and if you must pick the name of someone famous, you might want to actually live UP to that promise.

I tried to put my finger on Hunter Thompson's locution, and the closest I could come was Elliot Offen, a distant and far cry from his namesake.

I met HST once at a speaking event in Eugene. A quiet man who bluffed a nutter off the stage by threatening her with a stick of Binaca (It worked,) he shared many laughs with Ken Babb and Ken Kesey. He wasn't hysterical, and he wasn't inflammatory despite his obvious disdain for the 1988 Bush administration. He was calm, and extremely affable.

Some people write prose that should be preserved for eternity. It becomes an art in an of itself. HST didn't write in that vein. His words were simply the crafted tools of his trade. Worn smooth by use, and as familiar to him as the creases in the webs between his fingers. He didn't force words, instead, he molded a sentence to his ease of use. His early letters show the world his true love was the written word.

The Real Hunter S. Thompson is missed.

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Please ban the thompson freak from this site. Stupid, egomanaiacal, off the point. he has not siad any thing important. He wastes valuable web space. His ideas are wrong.
Death to H. Thompson

And the rejoicing was immense and unanimous!

for "Hunter Thompson." I asked Cablenut to leave it originally, and I'm asking the rest of you now.

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Lynn Siprelle * Fairy Blogmother