Wavy G wrote:

plenty of snips for brevity

That's not our Russell B, you moron.

Are you quite sure about that? He posted poetry to
rec.arts.poems
last April. I mean, two guys nicknamed "Rusty"
Waters, both of them
k00ks, both of them apparently very large, both of
them poets, both
of them pizza delivery drivers, both of them buddies
with Dockery,
Bishop, & Lysaght, and both of them going by "The One
True Rusty",
some of the time? I dunno, the coincidences keep
piling up...

You're talking about "Russell B. Waters," a regular
poster in
rec.arts.poems. I'm talking about "Russell B" (no
last name), a
regular poster in alt.tv.real-world and alt.punk.
THEY ARE
DIFFERENT PEOPLE!!!!!!! RUSSELL B WAS MY BEST FRIEND
AND HE'S DEAD
NOW. I SERIOUSLY DOUBT I WOULD BE BEST FRIENDS WITH
SOME KIND OF
POETRY "WUSS" (NO OFFENSE TO THOSE PEOPLE, THOUGH).

Sheesh.

"Russell B." was "Russell B. Waters", and was known to
have posted as
such to RAP, using the huskydustyrusty addy, as well
as the other.
Really, I don't think Russell B. is dead...

Russell B (*our* Russell B) was never "Russell B.
Waters," so you can
take that theory and stick it in a big dark hole
somewhere (use your
imagination, lol).

Uh, no, I double-checked him a long time ago, and it's
him.

i can't believe that russel b waters is 'our' russel b
mind posting
proof?

Can you ask him again? I didn't hear his response over
the crickets.

Don't worry about it, Wavy. It's way too much trouble to
check (two vast
posting histories to pore through to find what I remember
seeing years
ago), and nothing is gained if I'm right but a flamewar that
could last
for several months. I only mentioned it because I didn't
realise it was a
major point of contention...Pointless flamewars about this
sort of thing
bore me to tears, so you'll excuse me, hmmm? You can be teh
victor.

is it me or wavy g that can claim spank on you?
;-)
but i honestly think you were mistaken. i just can't believe
that
those russels where the same people.

They are most assuredly not the same.

RusselB is a person with a gift that placed him as one of the
best in
UPA.

He was the best. *We* were the best. The "A-Team," if you
will.

*Sniff* Russell B was the "Hannibal" to my "Murdock."

Nah, Pinch and Russell B were UseNet Gold.

Would they make me look like silver?

Bronze.

I can accept that. Are they still around?

Crossposted to:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.p...s?lnk=oa&hl=en

so Rusty can perhaps answer some of these questions!

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