Text 9198, 62 rader
Skriven 2009-02-15 07:38:38 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
   Kommentar till text 9150 av Dave Drum (1:124/311)
Ärende: Origins of the Dave
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Replying to a message of Dave Drum to Bob Ackley:

 DD>> Errrrmmmm, Dan, I dunno how to break this to you. But, I live in
 DD>> Springfield, IL. Capitol of Illinois and site of the Blagoievich
 DD>> circus lately concluded. Born thirty miles to the southeast of here.

 BA>> Been there.  The former moderator of POLITICS (David Bloomberg) lives
 BA>> there. A decade and a half or so ago we had the first gathering of
 BA>> POLITICS echo participants there.

 DD> Crackpot is still active in REALL (Rational Examination Association of
 DD> Lincoln Land) and other things. It is also (or was) the home base for
 DD> John Hull, one of Stan Headcheeze's heroes and denizen of the EXTREME
 DD> right wing-nut types.

I've met both of them.  In 1999 I picked Hull up in Springfield and drove down
to
Hardegree's place for the 'fest' that year.  The Friday night we arrived he got
sh*t
faced drunk at Stan's (I don't know why, it didn't seem as though there was all
that 
much hooch around or that he'd had all that much of it and as far as I could
see it
didn't happen again, and we left Sunday afternoon - he didn't want to leave but
I'd
promised I'd have him home in time to get some sleep before he had to drive his
school bus Monday morning, we arrived in Springfield around 0100 Monday morning
and after dropping him off I took a nap in the rest area north of town before
continuing
home); he stayed at Stan's and I stayed in a Super 8 a couple of miles away.

Crackpot's assistant moderator, Jan Bacher, also lived in Springfield at the
time.
She and her hubby Joe moved out of Springfield many years ago but AFAIK are 
still in Illinois.

If you see Crackpot again tell him I said 'hi.'

 DD> So, if you were in town why dincha drop by????

'twould have been easier for you to have joined the fray.  Both times I was
there
(1995 and 1996 IIRC) the group had dinner at a restaurant that doesn't take 
reservations but had seats for all of us ready when we arrived.  Forgot the
name
of it, but it's a country/western steakhouse not too far from Southern View (I
think that's the name of the town).  The second gathering there was pretty much
ruined by the Southern View police department, which picked up one of our
number
(Matt Russotto) in a speed trap on Friday evening, then beat the sh*t out of
him and
maced him after he mouthed off to the cop - after the ticket had been written
and
signed (the cop was caught pressuring a witness against him in another case a
couple
of months later and fired - with their star witness' credibility blown to
shreds the
charges against Matt were dropped).


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