Well,

It's a sad day when any of us loses someone or something we love. It
happens to all of us. None are immune. I'm sorry for your loss, Lennie
the Lurker, but please leave us out of your greif. Take out your
bitterness on those that actually frustrated you to begin with. This
isn't the forum for that.

This will be my last post on this particular thread... indeed, my last
look at it. I'm guilty of helping to keep it going and I apologise to
all for that. If some think I'm a Glasshole, I guess they're entitled
to that opinion. I will (already do) have many friends that fly
sailplanes - glass, metal, wood, and whatever... They include Ventus
IIs, ASW-27Bs, PW-5s, Russias, 1-26es, Ka-6es, etc. Call me what you
like while hiding behind your alias. I do take exception to your
calling any of my friends names. You don't know anything about any of
us. We'll have fun flying, and drink beer afterwards and I'll drag out
the guitar and sing until they make me quit, (don't usually take too
long!) Then we'll swap stories (lies) and so on. I just don't find
anything there to be negative about.

It's all good, and a couple of you missed it. I hope you'll pardon my
waxing philosophic, but I'm a little tooted and my son is just home
this afternoon from the Persian Gulf, and I'm in a rare mood, indeed!
If you can't smile for me, then smile for him. We're going for a
sailplane ride Sunday. He's going to join a club and begin flying soon.


Jack Womack
Pik-20B (AZ)

John Doe wrote:
Hi Shawn,
No I'm not new (lurker of 3 years, occasional poster
(under my real name) of 2), I was merely bringing our
obviously new friend Jack up to speed on the Lennie
issue ;-) Although I have to admit the pond scum
bit was new to me ;-)

PW5Flyer - Lennie has talked enough about his family
problems (Lennie, you have my sympathy, but I still
don't like you) on r.a.s. before, it's not exactly
a state secret. I am merely re posting freely avaliable
information.

And as for your dislike of aliases, I take it PW5Flyer
is your real name then? Did your parents not like
you or something? ;-)

And fyi, I don't dislike you or lennie because of your
choice of ship (1-26 or PW5, not the ships I'd choose
but each to their own), I dislike you for your attitude
and your wallowing in self pity.

John Doe
(Lost in action somewhere north of Da Nang)

At 22:00 17 February 2005, Shawn wrote:
John Doe wrote:

You must be new! We've known Lenniebeard's 'true,
secret identity' on
this ng for years (didn't Al figure it out first?).
Just ignore him and
he'll go back to rec.metalwork sooner.
BTW, you should change your name or people will start
to think you were
an abandoned infant or an itinerant 'found down'.
;-)

Shawn