I miss Zeke and Dottore
 

A thread here sent me back to some threads from the past. I really miss posts from Zeke and Dottore.

Well, I'm thinking you could go to other forums and hang with Zeke. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/

You could probably go to church and talk to Dottore, or maybe just bow your head and think good thoughts. I always did think well of him, not at all your typical Porsche rabble...

A lot of great people have come & gone here. I don't think we can expect everybody to hang around forever. Life & decisions about life change more frequently for some than others, and my guess is a BBS isn't the most important thing in life. It was nice to have them and we should just wish them well in whatever they are doing and wherever they are.

True.

Yep!

Did he die?

There was speculation that he had cancer.

Dottore said he had cancer, so it's not speculation. I do think he has passed away, as no one here has been able to contact him and it wasn't like him to not reply to the folks he knew here.

There were a few threads concerning Dottore and the consensus was he passed away.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/749902-anybody-heard-dottore.html

Zeke/Milt was posting up until last year but seemed kind of agitated in a few of his last replies. Think he was tired of people dismissing or not reading his posts and left for a while. Seemed like an ok guy who liked to share his experience with others but was just burned out.

Burnin' oil hasn't posted on here for a while. I enjoyed his quick wit and his posts in ot were generally good natured and funny.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/779271-your-holloween-costume.html

Milt is the same old Milt over at Garage Journal.

He is burned out with Porsches and the folks that love them.

When Dottore's father died, Dottore sent me his father's typewriter, a Swiss tank (Hermes Ambassador) that had been, he said, the background music of his childhood. He wouldn't take payment for it, or for the cost of mailing a 50 lb parcel from Canada. It sits in pride of place in my living room and when I pass it I think about Mark.

He sent me his Father's harmonicas...a few of them.

I gave one to my son, who plays it after Taps once week at VMI, our little tribute.

The other two sit behind me when I work from home.

Mark wasn't going to go the way of his father..
who endured much pain & pointless procedures..
he fought as best he could and made his peace..
and part of that was leaving us with good memories..
because he had little time or patience for..
a pity party..

Rika

He sent me a heavy package of Porsche books once and many nice emails. He is definitely gone, he was not the type to take the internet too seriously and leave us in a snit.

Huge loss to the gene pool. :(

If he had children his genes weren't lost.

He defiantly was a good guy. I really hope he's not gone.
Milt was often grumpy but hey so what? I found his posts amusing.

Milt got really crotchety but he knew that and admitted it, which I thought was great. A great guy to have on here and hopefully will drift back after a while.

Damned sad news about Dottore - good to hear Zeke/Milt is still active & doing his thing & as Head416 says: "A great guy to have on here and hopefully will drift back after a while."

Yeah, I liked Milt and considered him an ok guy but he definitely got really grumpy. I started referring to him as Grandma after he started lashing out at me for reasons that I still can't figure out to this day. I raise my hand and say that I am probably one of the people that he wants to get away from. It is what it is.

Dottore had some great insights, as does Milt/Zeke... I think I have seen Zeke dip his toe in a thread here.

I would postulate that maybe Burnin and Zeke (and others) might be turned away by the younger hipsters that seem to be posting here more and more.

It's your username "rusnak". It just sounds rude... Haha