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Started by Speedbag, June 27, 2013, 02:39:07 PM

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ducpainter

#30
June 28, 2013, 06:07:50 PM
Quote from: Speedbag on June 28, 2013, 06:02:57 PM
I don't believe he ever posted it. He had sent it to me as an attachment via e-mail.....
Wrong again dear... :-*

http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=1332.msg1043078#msg1043078
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


The Mad King Pepe'

#31
June 28, 2013, 06:18:33 PM
the chips...  [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]

since then I look at people and see primates!
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.

Grampa

#32
June 28, 2013, 07:30:18 PM
*stupid question...

what did he do for a living?
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ducpainter

#33
June 28, 2013, 07:34:52 PM
Quote from: bobspapa on June 28, 2013, 07:30:18 PM
*stupid question...

what did he do for a living?
not exactly sure...

but I think he wrote sales methods/methodology.

He worked for a very large company.
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


kopfjäger

#34
June 28, 2013, 07:43:45 PM
Quote from: bobspapa on June 28, 2013, 07:30:18 PM
*stupid question...

what did he do for a living?

Not a stoopid question by any means, after many conversations with him I never quite figured it out, but what Nate said is on the mark. I do know if he was brought into your company, heads were gonna roll and the trash was getting dumped.
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Speedbag

#35
June 28, 2013, 07:55:10 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on June 28, 2013, 06:07:50 PM
Wrong again dear... :-*

http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=1332.msg1043078#msg1043078

Ha! I had it years before that!  ;D

I thought he was some kind of copy writer. Never did ask him. We discussed writing at length, since I am a (slacker) aspiring writer myself.
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somegirl

#36
June 28, 2013, 09:37:22 PM
I had missed this picture of him when he first posted it.

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#37
June 28, 2013, 09:39:16 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on June 28, 2013, 07:34:52 PM
not exactly sure...

but I think he wrote sales methods/methodology.

He worked for a very large company.

Banking

kopfjäger

#39
June 28, 2013, 09:45:31 PM
Quote from: somegirl on June 28, 2013, 09:37:22 PM
I had missed this picture of him when he first posted it.


Awesome pic.
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Oldfisti

#40
June 29, 2013, 05:25:32 AM
Quote from: kopfjäger on June 28, 2013, 09:45:31 PM
Awesome pic.


Agreed.  Just saw it and it made my day.
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#41
June 29, 2013, 08:30:13 AM
Quote from: bobspapa on June 28, 2013, 07:30:18 PM
*stupid question...

what did he do for a living?

This is one of the PM's he sent me. Talks a bit about what he did for a living and a few other interesting topics. I'm really very interested in the part that he talks about him writing in regards to his godmother. Not only because I am interested in art history but because his writing had a way of evoking my emotions.

Hey Evan....I dabble in history and get curious about places where I wind up. Wife was an Art History major so Florence has a lot for her. Trip is a vacation.

I write for a living...business/marketing stuff....pays the bills....I also write for my own amusement, writing for me is a genetic predisposition...been in the family for a century or 3

My sense of the post-Roman Empire city-states and all the internecine warring....the Borgia's/Medici's etc is sketchy but I will no doubt have a fun time learning about them.

My father was a scholar on them. He went to the American University in Rome after he was discharged from the army post-WW2...also worked on the digs at Pompeii and Herculaneum for spending money at the time

As for art restoration my godmother's family was deeply involved since the 1920's in restoring old masterpieces in NYC....replacing the rotted canvas backings etc....after the war they made money removing camouflage paintings from the surfaces of the old masterpieces that were disguised to hide them from the invading/occupying Germans....

They were big patrons of the Jesuits and as a result got a lot of work from the Vatican or work steered to them by the Vatican. Sadly I know little about their actual business and there is little on the web that offers much.

In the end my godmother lived alone in this large old mansion that was falling down around her...school of Vandyke Oil's hanging on the walls...millions of dollars in artwork and antiques....I used to go and work on her house for her...it was like a museum....I have started and stopped a story I am writing about her and her family....she was great fun to hang out with

but the story of her family was very tragic in a Dickens way....and it is very much about a time and place in American society between the wars and after...that has long passed

Anyway...if you want me to chase anything down for you while I am there shoot me a line before Tuesday
Regards
Gerard
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When the blind man takes your hand
Says don't you see
Gotta' make it somehow
On the dreams you still believe

derby

#42
June 29, 2013, 09:04:07 AM
Quote from: bobspapa on June 28, 2013, 07:30:18 PM
*stupid question...

what did he do for a living?

Quote from: ducpainter on June 28, 2013, 07:34:52 PM
not exactly sure...

but I think he wrote sales methods/methodology.

He worked for a very large company.

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fastwin

#43
June 29, 2013, 09:14:45 AM
Thanks to whoever it was that confirmed my faded memory of RAT's mime story. And I had forgotten about the chimp story. [laugh] Another RAT classic. [drink] [bow_down] Certain people are born writers and others can't even sign a check. He was definitely the former. [bacon] ;)

Again, RIP Gerry.
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ducpainter

#44
June 29, 2013, 10:03:14 AM
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


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