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Re: Where's George?
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Where's George?
- From: Paul Sears <psears at nrn1_NRCan.gc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:07:36 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <200306041051.h54ApNi0028369@otter.actwin.com> from "Aquatic Plants Digest" at Jun 04, 2003 06:51:23 AM
> From: Dan Resler <resler at liberty_egr.vcu.edu>
> Subject: Where's George?
>
> "Where's George Booth?" people ask???
>
> Please, people, have a little more respect for the dead. George died years
> ago in a tragic accident while working on his tank; April 1994 if my memory
> serves me correctly. Newbies to APD can ask some of the old-timers how it
> happened. Or you can search the rec.aquaria Usenet archives.
Have I really been around that long.....??
I thought that George was a fiction of Kevin Conlin's, invented
so that we could have minor flame wars when usenet or (later) the APD
got a bit dull. I liked the one that resulted when Kevin put the contents
of an e-mail of mine on the APD, so that the "George" character could
fulminate a bit. ;)
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Paul Sears
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