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Re: Remembering Tim May and Goeff Miller

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On 4/25/2022 11:52 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> We all lived within 30 miles each other for a few decades but never
> met in person while first interacting online in unison in 1992-1993.
> 
> Then after years of kinda seldom posts to ba.* and scruz.* the three
> of us were somehow sucked into and almost obsessed with a character
> in alt.food.fast-food and carried on there for years with gusto.
> The three of us being veteran Usenet personalities, it's odd that we
> spent so much time 'battling wits' with the dimmest of them all in
> the later, and final, years <sigh>.
> 
> As the last survivor of, "The Three Wisest Men on Usenet" (according
> to Jerry Sauk of aff-f), I feel obligated and honored to remember my
> two comrades every so often, publicly and respectfully.
> 
> And with a shout-out to kilikini (RIP), who was instrumental in all
> this as well.  She even got PM's from Jerry - Jerry's first and only
> crush in his (now) 48 years of obtuse virginity.  That was sweet!(?)
> 
> I can't help recounting a Jerry Sauk quote when he was trying to
> convince the Three Of Us that he was a "Man of the World":
> 
> "Ive had more jobs in the last 3 years than you 3 have had in your
> whole life's!!!"
> 
> https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/name/geoffrey-miller-obituary?id=16696101
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_C._May
> 
> -sw (u/SpicyBeefChowFun)

The rumors [rumours per Julian} of my death have been greatly exaggerated!

Ciccio

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Remembering Tim May and Goeff Miller Sqwertz <sqwertzme@gmail.invalid> - 2022-04-26 01:52 -0500
  Re: Remembering Tim May and Goeff Miller Ciccio <francescod@comcast.net> - 2022-05-06 10:55 -0700
    Re: Remembering Tim May and Goeff Miller David Arnstein <arnstein+usenet@pobox.com> - 2022-05-06 19:06 +0000
  Re: Remembering Tim May and Goeff Miller "Jerry Sauk" <jerrysauk@hotmail.com> - 2022-05-31 14:38 -0500
    Re: Remembering Tim May and Goeff Miller KWills <a@b.c> - 2022-06-01 02:23 -0700

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