Anybody heard from Dottore?
 

He hasn't posted in awhile since things kind of "went off the rails" in PARF. Always enjoyed his insight. Last time he was AWOL, he fought the "Big C", hope eveything is OK.

Hey Marc, if you're lurking, next time you make it down this way, pizza and beer are on me at Boccali's in Ojai. SmileWavy

I PM'ed him the other day, but have gotten no response.

I miss him, too. It would be wonderful if he stops in and says hello. He's probably busy relaxing at his villa...

Erudite gentleman with a great sense of humor. :) :cool:

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His posts were always an interesting read. Hope all is well 'Dotto'
Cheers
JB

What's a PARF? ;)

Hope you are OK D-man...check in, please...

Missed him also. Figured he was busy trotting the Globe?

D is one of the good one's

believe the big C surgery went well..
his little 4 footed pal passed recently..
hit them hard..
hopefully he's just sucking down bubbly & eating fish-eggs somewhere..


Rika

isn't that every day since the creation?



BTW, my understanding is that he is still in talks with the Trilateral Commission and thus cannot be reached

At the top of the page, "Political and Religious Forum." Stay out for your health.

I thought he said he was going to travel around Europe for several weeks...

That's kinda what I'm thinking too. I seldom go to PARF so know nothing of a melt down.

Definitely one of the good guys, but considering the abuse he took off some of the wankers there, who could blame him for not coming back?

I miss him as well, but have many of the same sentiments about PARF. I have no problem with a civilized, enthusiastic debate from opposing points of view, but there are about 6 or 8 posters in PARF who apparently do not have real jobs who make everything personal and very much use an immature, childish and rancid debating method.

I put a bunch of them on ignore, however they still destroy what otherwise might be useful and informative dialogue.

...a pox on all of them I say...

D.

PS - if Dottore is in Europe, tell him to contact me and we can perhaps have a drink, I am in Hamburg at the moment, off to Denmark tomorrow.

I had a rough run a while back with my own cancer scare and some of the things he mentioned in a PM really helped me put things into perspective. Great guy, I noticed he has been gone for a while....... (I hope all is well....If you see this post man, let us know!!!)

Not lurking: Last Activity: 02-12-2013 09:56 AM

+1 on this. My rear end feels considerably better since I distanced myself from Parf.
There are less PITAS on this forum. Dottore comes across as a gentleman and a wise person. How come there are some folks that have to take issue with such minor cr-p?
Just walk away. Back to Dottore, Dueller-:) oh yes good people. There are many others too.....

For that matter, I don't think I've seen Mossguy for a bit either; another true gentleman of the board. Lots of good people have left, Kaisen, 911Rob, now maybe Dottore.

Kaisen is more than lurking...

Agree, Kaisen never really leaves, he does so every now and then for the "publicity" /marketing reasons, but always comes back.

It is worrisome not hearing from DOT, though, given his health issues. Dueller, too.

Mossguy (thankfully) is still around and posting.

I looked at Dot's last post, it was in a PARF thread and a habitually obnoxious/drunk poster completely lost it on him. It seems to me that someone in Dottore's position just doesn't have to suffer that kind of idiocy, and he probably just decided the s/n ratio here wasn't worth his while.

That is a shame - he had really cool experiences in his life to share. The French countryside foodie tour was one of the top 5 best threads I've ever seen in OT. He was always a gentleman, and the Roman Polanski issue notwithstanding I always enjoyed reading his point of view and respected him.

We've lost lots of quality posters to the terminally anal-expulsive over the years. I still miss Bob (moneyguy). Fingpilot/singpilot posts but only occasionally. Island911, controversial and often a lunatic in PARF, is always a good read in OT and tech; he's been gone for a while now. The list goes on.

How so?

He posted a few days ago.

Got it, I see it. I thought it was being suggested that he was opening up a second/phantom account, like DARISC does.

If you really want to go way back, I also miss Mark Szabo (old skul). His posts usually had me in stitches. Where's my cube??!!

I consider myself one of Dottore's buddies here and we've tried unsuccessfully for several years to hook up when we were in the same part of the world at the same time. But I have to say, he made the decision a while ago to exile himself from PARF and couldn't hold himself to it. I don't know why anyone gets butt hurt in PARF. I put (most of) the jerks and trolls on ignore and never have a problem or get my BP raised. Some folks just can't look or walk away and so they get bent out of shape. I doubt that's Dottore's issue, as he's a smart guy with a pretty good life in the gravity world. If he doesn't want to play in our sandbox anymore, I hope he at least responds to my PM to let us know he's alive and healthy..... at which point I'll promptly call him a poopyhead and attach a vulgar emoticon.

Where? I need to contact him.

He is prolly tied up in Bangkok... and enjoying every minute of it! :)

We have a vulgar emoticon?

Hmmmmm........please share....I could use something like that!

BTW Rick - great post and I agree on PARF....

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Seriously concerned about Dottore at this point. He's completely MIA.

I would be seriously concerned he is having more fun than me, as opposed to some sort of sinister line of thought.

He's a big boy who lives large. I hope that's what he is doing.

Has anyone here ever met him? I know he lives in Hamburg most of the time, Vancouver before that and was in Mallorca last time I was near Hamburg and tried to hook up with him. Don't have his number or email, never heard from his wife.

I know he had a problem with a super-steep driveway; maybe he can't get to his house?

I do have his email and he's not responding for months. He's always responded within hours. I'm fearing the worst, hate to say it. I'd love to be wrong.

I think he re- enlisted in the RCMP and is now deep into Sniper School.

He may have OD'd on my wife's Kalua Pork recipe I sent him awhile back.
Seriously. I hope he is okay. Great guy!

Just saw an older Dottore post on a bumped thread and was wondering if anyone had an update?
I always thought that his posts were entertaining and intelligent.

I stayed away for a rather long time previously. From time to time its almost refreshing to stay off grid. I bet Dottore will be back. One of the sharpest minds in this box for sure.

Mark and I, after a very contentious beginning here on PPOT, became good friends, communicated off line and, a number of years ago, met for drinks. We drank and talked for five hours while his wife visited with one of her friends who lived nearby, and we cemented what promised to be a lifelong friendship. We made plans to meet up and spend more time together the following year when he and his wife would again be in SOCAL.

Some time thereafter, he posted here that he'd been treated for bladder cancer in Germany. He was very upbeat, had all the confidence in the world in his German medical team, and was on the road to recovery.

Some period of time later he emailed me that the cancer had returned and that he was back in the hospital. I replied with regrets and words of encouragement. I have not heard from him since; this after trying to reach him through three of his email addresses and two of his phone numbers.

This all is extremely upsetting to me as well and, I too, have been, for quite some time now, fearing the worst.

I've hesitated posting about this until now because it is such a personal matter and I hate speculating on the possible misfortune of someone I'd grown to care a great deal about as a friend.

Other than Seahawk, who I know communicated with Mark, I don't know who else to ask.

Damn. :(

if the worst has occurred, wouldn't there be an obituary somewhere?