Eric The Hun, aka Wayne Henry Cobb Jr (Page 5 of 8)
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Originally Posted By FALARAK:
10 years you've been gone. And I was just talking about you yesterday. I still can't bring myself to remove his contact info from my phone. Talk about time passing in the blink of an eye. |
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They feature Blue Margaritas at the local American Legion Post we go to almost every week. Great tiki bar kinda place right on the water. I've got everyone calling them "Windex Margaritas" now. I can't order one without thinking of ETH. And it's very hard to explain to people that he's a guy I never met, knew only over the internet, who passed away a decade ago, but I still recall as a friend. Godspeed Wayne. I know you're having a blast. |
"Al-taqiyya" are lies approved by their religion meaning that a non-moslem can't believe anything a moslem says.
Conan didn't spend his life trying to figure out the Riddle of Polymer. - crazytuco
Conan didn't spend his life trying to figure out the Riddle of Polymer. - crazytuco
| Merry Christmas Wayne, you were a good man, you're in my thoughts tonight. |
Imagine a man when it all began
The pilot of "Enola Gay"
Flying out of the shockwave on that August day
All the powers that be, and the course of history,
Would be changed forevermore...
The pilot of "Enola Gay"
Flying out of the shockwave on that August day
All the powers that be, and the course of history,
Would be changed forevermore...
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Another year has passed.
This year, I am just going to post some memories from the farm. RIP, my friend. You are missed. 
 Breaking her in for the first time:  He was very proud of this fire pit. 
And the waterline, even though it never came to be 
 Snake fishing. A pastime.  Damned fine people. 
 Another sunset is upon us. 
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Sorry about the mayonnaise, guys.
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miss that guy and i miss those times
it's damned hard to believe that i met him and a lot of you fuckers almost 15 years ago i can't imagine a Hun Farm type event ever happening again with how things are now and how big the site is now, just glad i was able to be there at that little window in time RIP, Wayne, we miss you 
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Originally Posted By shooter_tx:
Damnit, was it yesterday? I have it in my calendar as 10/02/2006. RIP.  Originally Posted By shooter_tx:
Originally Posted By FALARAK:
Another year has passed. <snip> I have it in my calendar as 10/02/2006. RIP. |
Sorry about the mayonnaise, guys.
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Originally Posted By FALARAK:
Another year has passed. This year, I am just going to post some memories from the farm. RIP, my friend. You are missed. Man, did those pictures ever bring back some memories. Lots of good folks in those pics... |
Daddy loves you. Now go away.
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Originally Posted By booger-hooker:
Wayne was very proud of his fire pit but not when you throw a lawn chair into it when there's a fire going.   FALARAK and I were loading up in my truck to pick up a Ditch Witch in Altus, OK. Wayne asked me where we should put the pit. I told him it was his pit, but it would be nice if the ground around it could be flat enough to allow people to sit all around the pit without falling over backwards in their chairs. (The original "pit" was just a ring of rocks/bricks laying on the ground near the edge of the hill). About 3 hours later we returned from Altus. Wayne was standing in a hole that was more than waist deep and about 8 feet in diameter!! HOLY SHITBALLS!! What a fire pit!! His poor hands were blistered all to hell and back, but the smile on his face was brighter than the Sun. We lined the pit with about two tons of limestone "borrowed" from an "offsite location". We waited until sunset, then Wayne lit the first fire. It was beautiful. |
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| I remember going back and forth with him on some topic...Even though we didn't see eye to eye on it struck me back then how much of a gentleman he was . |
There, I said it...Don't tell me you weren't thinking the same thing!
I just want to go to the backyard, get a stick, and clean this thread off the bottom of my shoe....
I just want to go to the backyard, get a stick, and clean this thread off the bottom of my shoe....
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Originally Posted By PBIR:
ETH was a poster I always respected. He is one of the few that I can honestly say this place hasn't been the same without. I started sniffin around here back in 02 or so I guess and his was always the voice of calm, respect and deescalation even in disagreement. In this place of many opinions, his was always valued by the vast majority even back in the "wild wild west" days. There are still members doing good works daily as is being demonstrated in the wessono thread but sadly, those types of posters seem to the exception more and more. Hopefully this is just an illusion on my part though as I'm quite sure the Hun would be balls deep in there doing anything he could to help and he would hope that the rest of us would all do our part as well. The place has not been the same without him.
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Never met him face to face but we went toe to toe on arfcom.
He, like I, abhorred the practice of claiming to be a victim when issues were being argued. He had no tolerance for those who called others haters, or bigots or the like for simply disagreeing with them. And rightly so. He advocated free, open, rigorous discussion. I miss him. |
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Never made it to the farm back then, too busy with and poor from college, but always looked forward to the pictures and stories from gatherings there ( I'm sure the best stories never made it back to the forum!) I always looked forward to his insightful, witty, and occasionally brutally direct posts to the forums, and how he always signed each post with a humorously relevant adjective in his name. He seemed an incredibly genuine person, the kind that brings out the best in everyone around him, and the forum is a little worse off with his absence. |
Gravity is the Law, and it IS enforced.
a toast to his memory.
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I can't remember what I watched on TV last night, but I remember IMs I had with him 15 years ago.
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* "Al-taqiyya" are lies approved by their religion meaning that a non-moslem can't believe anything a moslem says.
* Conan didn't spend his life trying to figure out the Riddle of Polymer. - crazytuco
* Conan didn't spend his life trying to figure out the Riddle of Polymer. - crazytuco