On Oct 17, 3:05*am, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 17/10/2011 7:14 PM, GordonD wrote:

"Mike DiCenso" wrote in message
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Ah hell what miserable news to get today, and to see it sullied by
Haller's whining blathering no less. I hope at least there was family
and friends to be there with him in his last days, and that his
passing was without any suffering.

Thus ends of an era of USENET.... So a fond farewell to you, Pat, and
enjoy a toast for us with the other great pioneers who've gone before
us like Goddard, Von Braun, Korolev, Komarov, Alan Shepard, the crews
of Apollo 1, Soyuz 11, Challenger, and Columbia, etc.

If there is an afterlife I bet they throw one hell of a welcome party
for Pat...

Can you imagine the opening line he'll come up with?

I think Pat will be too busy with those Venusian Fire Maidens they've
got lined up for him to come up with anything. ;-D
-Mike