R.I.P Lieutenant.
I wish I'd had the chance to know him
Search on his name and browse some of his posts. It's worth it.
At least a part of him will live on as long as FG exists.
The News-Gazette (Obituary) said:..
He was an artist, writer, aviator, world observer, philosopher, entrepreneur, a wonderful singer, and a keeper of secrets. He had a great sense of humor; heaven was a cup of black coffee and his pipe while listening to and telling good stories. He loved his home, his family and his work, and was keenly interested in history and world events.
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Such sad news. I figured he might have taken a tour of places he'd been stationed while in the service or something like that.
I will report jedd's suggestion with the addition that three days would be appropriate.
And I hereby propose that hereafter May 23 will be known as The Lieutenant's Day on Final Gear.
Not being flippant, since I am touch typing this as I can't see for tears. Got the news first thing and had to throw myself into work today to keep it in the back of my mind.
Lieutenant, if they have the facility to lurk wherever your soul now resides I hope you can read this. I have no doubt you are now the most interesting man in the afterlife.
I'll have a Guinness and an Irish at Carmon's in your honor, so you can be there in spirit. We go there every year for live Irish music, corned beef, cabbage and potatoes.
Q: What's an Irish Seven-course meal?
A: A six-pack and a potato.
Dated a girl back in the late 70's who was, besides being a bit kinky, an artist. She had a thing going whereby she would collect genital plaster casts of everyone she bedded... ostensibly for some future sculpture exhibit. She had quite a collection. Most were flaccid, but a fair number she managed to get at least semi-erect and a few "standing tall and proud" as it were.
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..... before you ask; yes... and yes.
No, at least not that I know of, though she may have gone on to greater fame and fortune after I knew her. I didn't keep track of her, nor could I even remember her name with surety after all these years. She was an art student and just local university talent at the time.
[afterthought]It would be a kick though if she was. Imagine a cast of my privates right up there with all those rock stars! LOL[/afterthought]
Messing with someone elses girl is like shoplifting. You want the candy, it's not yours, it belongs to someone else, it's wrong, it's risky, you may get caught, it may not taste as good as you think.