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(Hunter)Thompson's Ashes May Be Shot From Cannon
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| February 23, 2005
| DAN ELLIOTT
Posted on 02/23/2005 6:09:11 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
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To: yooper
Well, I do.
You are not comforming. Shame on you.
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posted on
02/23/2005 6:33:46 PM PST
by
Arkinsaw
To: Arkinsaw
I've spent my whole life not conforming. Hunter S. Thompson was a major factor in that. Hence my defence of the man.
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posted on
02/23/2005 6:36:45 PM PST
by
yooper
(If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
To: yooper
Amen brother!
Speaking truth to power!
(As your attorney, I advise you to drink heavily!)
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posted on
02/23/2005 6:37:15 PM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
"(As your attorney, I advise you to drink heavily!)"
Gin and tonic in hand, sir! But not heavily (it's Wednesday night after all).
Rest in pieces Gonzo!
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posted on
02/23/2005 6:41:22 PM PST
by
yooper
(If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
To: yooper
Bourbon and water, my friend.
I am an attorney, but I'm just not that big damn Samoan.
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posted on
02/23/2005 6:42:54 PM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
"MacArthur, I'm a reasonable man, so I know this isn't snow."
"Pay it no mind, sir. It never sticks."
I need to add another aside question here: How many here have made disparaging remarks about Thompson based on what they've read over the years in "Doonesbury"?
Anyone want to fess up to that?
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posted on
02/23/2005 6:46:15 PM PST
by
yooper
(If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
To: The Loan Arranger
His ashes being shot out of a cannon is a great final piece of performance art, but in the true contemptuous Hunter Thompson tradition they should be dipped in a jar of urine and smeared with elephant dung first. I think he would have liked it that way.
To: The Loan Arranger; All
His Boston lawyer George Tobia Jr told the Globe the 67-year-old author sat in his kitchen Sunday afternoon in his home in Woody Creek, Colo., stuck a .45-caliber handgun in his mouth, and killed himself while his wife listened on the phone and his son and daughter-in-law were in another room of his house. His wife had no idea what had happened until she returned home later. Some dignity.
Source http://www.counterpunch.org/
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posted on
02/23/2005 6:51:01 PM PST
by
aculeus
(This is not a tag line.)
To: spinestein
It should be done in Las Vegas.
To: xm177e2
For some reason I never read him. Don't even remember hearing his name. What works would you suggest I read?
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posted on
02/23/2005 6:56:07 PM PST
by
Roccus
(Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
To: yooper
"It's a strange world...Who knows? If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix... Heaven is a bit harder to figure - and there are some things that not even a smart boy can tell you for sure. But, I can guess. Or wonder... Or maybe this is all pure gibberish - a product of the demented imagination of a drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found out a way to live out there where the real wind blows - to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Res Ipsa Loquitor. Let the Good Times Roll." HST - Generation of Swine
I guess you know the answer now Hunter. Rest in Peace you freak. You were one of a kind!
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posted on
02/23/2005 7:08:31 PM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
To: Roccus
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail `72
Generation of Swine
The Great Shark Hunt
The Curse of Lono
Hells Angels
I recommend all of them very highly.
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posted on
02/23/2005 7:10:21 PM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Thanks, I'll give a couple of them a try.
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posted on
02/23/2005 7:11:56 PM PST
by
Roccus
(Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
To: Roccus
I read "Fear abd Loathing in Las Vegas" in one sitting. My law schoo, roomate handed me his copy and told me I might enjoy it. I was hooked by the first paragraph. Side splittingly funny stuff in there.
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posted on
02/23/2005 7:17:45 PM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
To: reg45
...to make a total ASH of himself. Why not?
ASH in USENET speak is alt.suicide.holiday.
To: The Loan Arranger
Hunter Thompson was a very talented, albeit limited writer. His novels were dreadful.Hell's angels was excellent, The letters and essays he wrote early in his career are excellent.His works as a miltiary sportswriter without any training were excellent.His South American journalism and letters to William Kennedy are brilliant.His early, anger driven correspondence about the shortcomings of the "USA and its rotarians" is also brilliant. If he did not seek to become a self created cult figure I think he would have thrived.His biggest downfall was recognition by the talentless and mean-spirited Gary Trudeau.
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posted on
02/23/2005 8:06:13 PM PST
by
patso
To: yooper
[How many here have made disparaging remarks about Thompson based on what they've read over the years in "Doonesbury"?]
I confess that I didn't even know who Hunter Thompson was until after he died, and the only thing I know about him now is what I've read in articles written by other journalists praising him for his unorthodox writing and his "new journalism" style. The details of their praise leads me to believe that he was an extreme "free love" hippie who had a venomous contempt for people on the right.
My own observation is that he died with a venomous contempt for his own life.
Apparently, "Doonesbury" contains a character based on him but I couldn't name him, or any other character in that strip. Really, I haven't found much worthwhile to read in comics since "Calvin and Hobbes" and "The Far Side" went away (except sometimes "Dilbert" and "Foxtrot"). I couldn't care less about crap like "Doonesbury" which I sampled a few times years ago and instantly hated.
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
For my money Hell's Angels was his best work.
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posted on
02/24/2005 12:25:06 AM PST
by
kms61
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