glassholes

At 05:00 17 February 2005, Greybeard wrote:
On 16 Feb 2005 18:04:40 -0800, 'Jack' wrote:

I just want to know your name so if ever introduced
to you I won't
stick out my hand. I'd just want to turn and walk off,
so please, give
me that opportunity.

My name is Richard, and the only chance you would ever
have had of
being introduced to me would have been at the Beloit,
Wisconsin
airport. That chance is gone and will never be available.
I'd give
you my last name, but there are five in the state with
the same first
and last name. You might make sure you get the right
one.
(Hint: if they're at the airport, it ain't me.) You'll
just have to
avoid everyone named Richard.

*snip*

Quick google search and found the following info (thanks
to Duncan Idahoe):

'Greybeard / rabue / Richard B / Lennie the Lurker
is in reality (or what
passes for it at his house)

Richard A. Buege
236 Robert St.
Burlington, WI 53105-2255
tel. 262-763-2237

This is 100 percent dead nuts on target.

Easy to find. He claims to own a Schweizer 1-26 sailplane.
So a friend
went to a search engine that finds all registered owners
of aircraft
(FAA makes this public, has to), and started searching
all the aircraft
of that type, looking for Wisconsin addresses. I think
his is the third
or so hit for WI. Listed as Richard Buege, Burlington.
That's SE
Wisconsin, his known hangout. Checking phone books
for his name and
town, returns middle initial A which fits for rabue.
Burlington is close
to the nature center (Bong) where he lectures on pond
scum (no kiddin',
I wouldn't make this up) and flies model gliders. And
there was a very early post to a model glider group
which started as
follows, apparently before he got his Rude Bone installed:

From: Richard Buege
To:
Subject: Your ongoing discussion
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 14:22:44 -0500
Message-ID:

Good morning Gentlemen, and let me introduce myself.
Being 56 years old
and a 47 year model builder, I have been following
your discussion with
much interest. I am one of the Naturalist's volunteers
at Bong
recreation area, here in Wisconsin, and am in frequent
contact with the
FF bunch that flies there. I have not been flying anything
actively for
several years now, but still take the CO2 Pietenpol
for an outing
occasionally.

Note the techheadnet.com ISP, which rabue has used
in the past, along
with techheadnet2.com

More details. Must be about 58 now. Had a heart condition
(figures)
which kept him from getting a medical for powered flight
but took
gliding lessons.
Apparently scared himself ****less on his first solo
and hasn't gone
back.
Takes sour grapes attitude to gliding, gliders, and
glider pilots
(surprise).
Now he wants to cut up his airplane because he doesn't
like it. (Has 6
people leasing it from him). Daughter born with birth
defects, wife died
of Parkinson's. Hates all his nearby relatives, he
says because they're
German.
Said he was moving to way northern Wisconsin where
his Irish relatives
are much nicer. But hasn't moved yet. They probably
don't want to see
him either.
Spent two years in the Navy as an enlisted man, giving
officers
attitude--
or so he says. I think they would have dealt with him
quickly and
appropriately if he had the mouth he claims he had.
Doesn't like anybody
who is or was in the military. Union through and through.
Apparently UAW
but I don't know where, possibly American Motors which
was near there,
possibly another unknown supplier, possibly several.

This just in: possible former employer J.I. Case.
'I'm going to answer that with the example I'm most
familiar, UAW Local
180, of which I was a member for thirty years... Certainly,
we
have one of the best insurance coverages anywhere,
but it was not
a 'gimmee'. It was a cooperative effort between the
company and the
locals of the Case Council. '

More digging... UAW 180 represents workers at the J.I.
Case plant and
headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin. Right area again.'