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Legendary US author Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide
Entertainment - AFP ^ | 2/21/2005

Posted on 02/21/2005 2:53:20 AM PST by wingblade

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To: chronic_loser
However, he despised the left and held them in almost as much contempt

Then why his praise for kerry, who is the epitomie of the modern left.

21 posted on 02/21/2005 4:31:31 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: dyed_in_the_wool

"Dupe"

Yeah well, at least the entire thread isn't.


22 posted on 02/21/2005 4:35:20 AM PST by wingblade ("There's a plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: wingblade

I guess now he is headed to "Bat-country," maybe?


24 posted on 02/21/2005 4:35:35 AM PST by Pelayo
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To: bikepacker67

Either a terminal disease, or he looked in the mirror and saw a giant winged lizard with glowing red eyes and 12 inch fangs.


25 posted on 02/21/2005 4:40:48 AM PST by ABG(anybody but Gore) (Ted Kennedy: Boldly driving a '68 Olds where no '68 Olds had gone before)
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To: wingblade

This guy couldn't handle but one year in the Air Force, as a sports reporter, and in Florida no less. What a loser.


26 posted on 02/21/2005 4:42:26 AM PST by flair2000
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To: wingblade
Yeah well, at least the entire thread isn't.

Really, that one was much more interesting.
27 posted on 02/21/2005 4:42:41 AM PST by dyed_in_the_wool ("Man's character is his destiny" - Heracleitus)
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To: flair2000

"This guy couldn't handle but one year in the Air Force, as a sports reporter, and in Florida no less. What a loser."

Hellz a-poppin'! Imagine if he had never left the USAF?



28 posted on 02/21/2005 4:46:11 AM PST by wingblade ("There's a plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: dyed_in_the_wool

"Really, that one was much more interesting."

Maybe we'll know more about it the later in the day it gets.


29 posted on 02/21/2005 4:48:19 AM PST by wingblade ("There's a plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: G.Mason

With tabs!( I didn't feel like formatting HTML)

Ballad Of Curtis Lowe Tab By Lynyrd Skynyrd



Band Lynyrd Skynyrd
Song Ballad of Curtis Lowe
Album Second Helping
Tuning Standard (if you play it with a slide i would tune to open E)
Tabber Coldshot11 COld_shot11@yahoo.com

Intro: E D E
(E) B
Well, I used to wake the mornin' before the rooster crowed,
E A F#
Searchin' for soda bottles to get myself some dough.
E B
Run 'em down to the corner, down to the country store,
A E
Cash 'em in, and give my money to a man named Curtis Loew.

Verse:
E B A E
Old Curt was a black man with white curly hair,
(E) B A E
When he had a fifth of wine he did not have a care,
(E) B A E
He used to own an old Dobro, used to play it 'cross his knee
(E) B A E
I give old Curt my money, he play all day for me.

Chorus:
A E E7
Play me a song, Curtis Loew, Curtis Loew,
A E E7
Well, I got your drinkin' money, tune up your Dobro.
A E F#
People said he was useless, them people all were fools,
E D A E E D E
'Cause Curtis Loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues

He looked to be sixty, and maybe I was ten,
Mama used to whup me, but I'd go see him again.
I clap my hands, stomp my feets, try to stay in time,
He'd play a song or two, then take another drink of wine.

Play me a song, Curtis Loew, Curtis Loew,
Well, I got your drinkin' money, tune up your Dobro.
People said he was useless, them people all were fools,
'Cause Curtis Loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues


30 posted on 02/21/2005 5:01:58 AM PST by SeeRushToldU_So (UGA won! The SEC kicks the nation's butt in football.)
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To: SeeRushToldU_So
Thanks!

Ya just got to hate them racist Southern boys! ;)

Whenever I hear the line ...

"Play me a song curtis loew, hey curtis loew
I wish that you was here so everyone would know ... "

... somehow I always get something in my eyes. ;)

31 posted on 02/21/2005 5:49:31 AM PST by G.Mason (The replies by this poster are meant for self-amusement only. Read at your own discretion.)
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To: wingblade
"Legendary US author and sharp-witted icon of the 1960s counter-culture . . ."

Legendary? Hmmmmm . . .

Legendary according to American Heritage . . .
Celebrated in legend.
Extremely well known; famous or renowned.

Yeah, well maybe in the LSD crowd but I suspect MOST Americans have never heard of the guy . . . but it makes for a better story.

32 posted on 02/21/2005 6:28:02 AM PST by geedee (American by birth. Texan by choice and attitude. Conservative by God. Disabled by hubris.)
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To: chronic_loser

Yes.

Don't go to writers for politics, go for their writing.

HELL'S ANGELS and FEAR AND LOATHING are incredible works. Something else has dies with HST.


33 posted on 02/21/2005 6:33:28 AM PST by johnmilken
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To: wingblade

Who Cares?


34 posted on 02/21/2005 6:36:29 AM PST by StoneColdTaxHater
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To: Dane
Then why his praise for kerry, who is the epitomie of the modern left.

It's "epitome".

35 posted on 02/21/2005 7:23:23 AM PST by murdoog
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To: Izzy Dunne; xp38

Kerry Will Come Through (By Hunter S. Thompson)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266838/posts


36 posted on 02/21/2005 8:05:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: wingblade

37 posted on 02/21/2005 8:10:25 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: MadIvan

This is a quote from one article:

And Thompson's life was nothing if not surprising. He famously and fully embraced an unconventional lifestyle, summing up his attitude to fast living with the iconic phrase: "I do not advocate the use of dangerous drugs, wild amounts of alcohol and violence and weirdness - but they've always worked for me." A firearms fan, he allegedly kept a keg of gunpowder in his basement, and on one occasion accidentally shooting an assistant. Hi major foray into public life occurred in 1970, when he decided that "there might be some serious fun in politics" and duly stood for Sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado on a platform of drug decriminalisation. The Republican candidate was sporting a crew cut, which prompted the contrary author to shave his head entirely and refer to his rival as "my long-haired opponent" throughout the campaign. He lost by a handful of votes.


38 posted on 02/21/2005 9:04:14 AM PST by Feiny ( I own many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.)
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