"Dad really loved it here. They really seem to love him. Let's poke around." seems a FAR FAR FAR more likely scenario than someone setting up a dummy address and a dummy checking account to do work for Brenda's company.
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
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
Trudy Booth - Jan 02, 2007 8:43:28 am PST #7626 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
sj - Jan 02, 2007 8:43:35 am PST #7627 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Chemistry professors at University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
He is nowhere on the list of faculty and staff there either:
Jesse - Jan 02, 2007 8:44:41 am PST #7628 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Although the monkey-bite sickness would likely have caused him to have to stop teaching.
SailAweigh - Jan 02, 2007 8:45:22 am PST #7629 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I agree with Teppy. I think I was delurked and posting for well over six months or more before I ever thought to look in Bureaucracy. I figured it was more for the stompies and such. Why I even started reading it I can't remember any more. So, yeah, I did start reading it, but it wasn't an intuitive "oh, this is something I should do" kind of thing.
msbelle - Jan 02, 2007 8:51:19 am PST #7630 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
well, there are all different types of grieving, but I, for one, cannot imagine that poking around an internet site my relative/good friend frequented would be high on my list after they died. YGMV
Beverly - Jan 02, 2007 8:51:20 am PST #7631 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Trudy, what do you want us to do? Communicate by email? Set up a yahoo account somewhere to discuss all this? That's completely impractical, when this thread is right here for this sort of use. If in the extremely unlikely event a family member finds the discussion, and objects to it rather than contributing some explicatory facts (which I would be quick to do, were it my family member under such discussion), we can apologize and explain.
It seems to me a mark of the respect we all held Gus in that we want to know the truth. Well, some of us.
I'm sorry it upsets you.
Scrappy - Jan 02, 2007 8:53:26 am PST #7632 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
This is probably the least likely thread anyone just looking around would be found. If Seamus or Kimi want to spend time poking around on a board that Gus visited a few times a year for the last couple of years (which seems unlikely), I think they'd be interested mostly in threads he posted in. After my dad died, we spent time informing people in groups he belonged to (Pilots from his group in Korea, for example), but not in then joining those groups. We had enough to do with dealing with real life stuff.
Beverly - Jan 02, 2007 8:53:46 am PST #7633 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I hate to post and run, but I have to get Mom to her doctor's appointment. I'll check back in when we get home.
bon bon - Jan 02, 2007 8:56:12 am PST #7634 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm not convinced there's a high risk to Guy Straley's intimates finding this discussion. Moreover, even if they do, we have been posting true things, not slandering. If it's all true, having a fantastic life story and being ungoogleable aren't insults, they just are.
I see two benefits of having this discussion. One, because in reading old bureau threads I think there was some bitterness about posters being unable to express (a) alarm over Zoe and (b) feelings that Schmoker=mieskie, both until it was pretty late. That kind of frustration builds until it blows up. Two, and I'm having trouble wording this, but I think it's a good idea to have a community-wide awareness of the signposts of pseudicide, if that's indeed what this is. Awareness keeps it from happening again, I'd think.
Tom Scola - Jan 02, 2007 8:56:35 am PST #7635 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.