[billhilly]

Luis my friend, you have a knack for pushing the right buttons, whether with your own writing, or a wisely selected topic. In either event, you rarely, if ever, disappoint.

My time has been limited recently, for reasons you understand, so I have not read all of the posts on this topic, but I will. Now, as you wish, let me tell the the reader that billhilly was what I chose as my screen name when I finally signed up with FR in 2000. I had followed the site since soon after its inception. My real name is David Ward Henderson, and I am the Dave Henderson referred to in Byron York's Atlantic Monthly article. Billhilly was often mistaken, as I intended it to be, for hillbilly. After all, it was the first names of two of our most prominent hillbillies, Bill and Hillary Clinton. OK, I apologize to all of my true hillbilly friends. My Kentucky upbringing gives me liscense.

[LurkerNoMore!]

This is quite an honor, sir.

[Luis Gonzalez]

LOL!!!

Well, looks like the cat's let himself out of the bag!

There are some real feelings of loss for TAS on this thread, there was a lot of good, hard work by R. Emmett, yourself, and the rest involved over the years.

You know, I'm a guajiro myself--hillbilly to the monolingual amongst us--from WAAAAAAAAAAY down South.

The book is great, do you have a release date on it yet?

Luis

[murdoog]

I remember you posted a while back that you had a rather interesting and significant real identity (or words to that effect... please forgive me, I am paraphrasing from memory.) You may remember I sent you freepmail asking you if you were Billy Dale.

Looks like I was wrong. Although it does look like you are in an unusually good position to empathize with Billy Dale.

[katykelly]

I remember when you began posting at FR. I thought your screen name was quite clever :-) Hope your eye surgery has gone well.