THE REDNECK -- Farewell, old friend

[MichSwampbuck]

You should exchange contact information with someone here that you trust.   You matter.   We would all want to know and sit around and get drunk and tell good lies about you.

I'd love to write my own epitaph, and a short bio to add to the lies, um, I mean the story of yours truly. Also, please get loaded drunk and get in trouble because you flirted with someone while your better half was there.

I used to have DTOM's phone number and would message occasionally. I still may have that number, but I did the default settings on that phone, so I'm not sure. Being the hermit I've become, it is entirely unsurprising I don't bother.

ETA: I hooked up with an old friend on Labor Day Weekend, and he brought up so much shit we experienced together in Detroit back in the day, I thought he should write my biography.

[AdmireTheDistance]

Awww man.  May he rest in peace.

[MichSwampbuck]

We'll be talking about you kicking the Buck-et for a couple of weeks after you die I suppose. 

I doubt if anyone will go on here and inform you guys I died, they will be too busy going through all my tools and splitting them up.  Hopefully they don't argue too much.

Jesus, so true. If it were only the tools, those vultures pick over every bone.

[Kwaka]

He was a good man with thoughtful contributions. Will be missed. RIP.

[midicon]

Very sad. Death is so final.

So many of us are getting old.

Would that we could live forever.

RIP Redneck.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

That's sad. 

I will remember something from when I first started posting on ATS.

He is directly responsible for a theory I have on global warming. 

He once brought up catalytic converters as the cause of global warming. And at the time I dismissed it, then after a subsequent study on sulfate aerosols and greenhouse gasses, i learned you can literally line up the anthropogenic warming period with the proliferation of sulfate scrubbing and catalytic converter use. He was on to something.  And he was the catalyst for my theory of unintentional global warming.

And let's never forget his hatred for my state's trucking industry. 

Eloquent and knowledgeable. RIP.

[Bush Master]

Sad. We had a good rapport on ATS.

[IceHappy]

The Redneck is gone to all of the answers with no pain....  I am sad and happy as he was DNR and is where he wanted to be...  We lost so much when we lost ATS.  Still have bookmarks I try every now and then but hey I am 72 so stuck in old ways.  The sad loss of ATS meant a loss of old friends contacts and knowing their fate.

The Redneck news made me a member of DI as I have been a lurker like in ATS, That is, Until I could not shut up and honour The Redneck.  Not always in agreement but read his posts for his POV which was well sounded and informative.

Time to play Kansas, "Dust in the Wind"

all we are is dust in the wind

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[xpert11]

RIP, Doug. I will miss you. I don't wish to assume what he felt about me. However, I never felt our different personal values and cultural backgrounds were an issue. Those differences helped me to understand how the ATS members and staff's diversity was a strength. 

As our societies become increasingly intolerant of diverse ideas, I will remember Doug's contribution to feeling defiant in the face of darker skies. 

I recall Doug's valuable input into the defunct ATS Live radio shows, which both of us were sometimes involved with in a different era.

[ArMaP]

Rest in peace, Doug.