Spike ,'Chosen'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Current concerns aside, should the proposed Gus thread become whole, I would like to propose the thread begin with a post of:
Giles: Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart
and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their
pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save
the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Buffy: Liar
I have to admit I'm pretty naive about fandom scams, but I'm willing to be guided by those who have in the realm of wait and see. While I wasn't suspicious when I heard the news last night, I still did some googling to try and find his obit or any other information. There's an obit site I found, yet could find no obit for a Guy Straley. I also tried everything I know at the UW website to try and find Gus. I belong to the WAA (Wisconsin Alumni Association) so if he was findable, I should have been able to find him. I can't. Not listed as fac/staff, not listed as an alum, nada, zip, zilch. I did a quick search of MadCat, the online reference library for the UW and couldn't find any articles of any kind with his name on them. I'm very sad to think this might be a psuedicide, I don't get the point of it.
Oh, Daniel that's got at least nine layers of irony considering the current situation.
Where did Mieskie/Anathema/Schmoker live? That Gus was in Western Wisconsin seems pretty well substantiated.
Where did Mieskie/Anathema/Schmoker live?
I don't know. John H. tracked him down. I don't remember the details.
The schmoker theory sounds strange to me, as we suspected pretty quickly that mieskie had returned and no one suspected the same about Gus. I think the timeline is probably a coincidence.
I mean, I could feel okay if Gus were a pseud. I got along with that person/persona.
I think this needs to be reiterated. He never did anything malicious or tried to dupe people out of money or anything like that. Even if Guy Straley was untruthful about many of his accomplishments, he was still a kind soul and a fun presence on this board.
Oh yeah - for the longest time Gus never gave us his photo. He had no digital camera (and no access to one), which is slightly odd for a demonstrated computer geek. Then he supplied one tiny picture.
Also, he never got us pictures of his kites. There was supposed to be some local TV news thingie on him and his kites - anybody ever hear what happened with that?
Um... are we piling on?
I'm just surprised no one suspected anything before, if there was this much sketchiness about. Like I said, I've recently had to deal with this kind of thing, and people were suspicious of the poster for a while. But it also turned out that quite a few people were suspicious and just never said anything. And then people got together and commiserated and Googled like mad and discovered all sorts of inconsistencies and yeah.
I mean, I could feel okay if Gus were a pseud.Personally - and whoa is this hitting too many people I like in too many different ways - Gus was a poster here. Pseud or not. That is kinda fact. I mean, many of you will be entirely shocked to know that my name is not actually "Cass." But I still kinda exist.
Did he actually die? God I hope so because as sad as that seems, the alternative is just cruel. But this world we live in is the world we live in and people don't just lie, they try to cause as much pain as possible.
kimi was a new poster. I hope that she did just want to let us know and that there is nothing else at work. Can I be sure of that? Sadly, no.