@edgarblythe,
He was truly funny, he and another Abuzzer, skwerlx were very funny about cats, bbq, body functions etc.
He worked in southern Ohio as a state parks ranger and had a beer fueled golden oldies band. He had a bad heart and was on the edge for the last twenty years, but he was funny as hell. I'll miss him. I made him promise that if they had ever replaced his heart, he'd give me the old one to make an ocarina from. Good guy.