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   From: takin&kanoknuan@stuck-in-a-wheelchair.org   
      
   "nurk_fred2000"  wrote in message   
   > This one is a Kraven Classic from the rec.knives archives reposted   
   > over at soc.culture.thai...Chilla aka Chuckles the Klown became good   
   > "internet pals" with Howard until Kramer informed Chuckles that poor   
   > old Howard wouldn't be posting anymore, that he had passed away from a   
   > stroke...Chuckles was a very sad sack here for quite sometime!!!...Low   
   > and behold good old Howard (dusted off and plugged back into the   
   > "starting sock puppet rotation") was seen posting his stroke ridden   
   > carcass away over at alt.cooking-chat...Hopefully discussing diet,   
   > ehhh Pinkie!   
   >   
   > from Howard Aslan (aka the Kraven Kramer)...   
   >   
   > BTW--I've met Steve, and he seemed knowledgeable in the areas I had   
   >> enough independent knowledge to evaluate. He was also very kind and   
   >> generous.   
   >   
   > I think anyone who's actually had 'real' contact with him is in   
   > agreement. He's been nothing but helpful to me, and certainly   
   > generous   
   > to a fault!   He sent me several pocket knives just to 'feel' so I   
   > could make my choice in what sort to purchase, and never asked a   
   > thing   
   > in return.   
   >   
   > I doubt any of the trolls (except one) have ever met him, much less   
   > had actual contact with him or they wouldn't say the things they do.   
   > We had one who tried to tell us that he met Steve and took his   
   > classes, but that turned out to be false as well. Are there ANY   
   > regulars here who would call Steve Kramer anything but knowledgeable,   
   > but willing to learn, and just as willing to share with others?  It's   
   > only the trolls who do that!   
   >   
   > Howard   
      
      
   **You know I actually feel sorry for Chuckles. He was played for a sap by   
   Kramer, who used Chuckles then tossed him away when he was no longer of any   
   use to him.   
      
   Howard's 'death' from a stroke was actually a missed opportunity for Kramer   
   to tell us another one of his 'adventure in the jungle' tales whilst at the   
   same time killing off Howard in a more dramatic way.   :-)   
      
   It could have gone something like this.   (*grin*)   
   Howard (who was supposedly living in Bangkok) goes on vacation to the South   
   of Thailand and ends up getting kidnapped by Muslim separatist extremists.   
   On hearing the news, Kramer (who, before being deported from Thailand, was   
   living in Chiang Mai) packs his ex-volunteer tourist policeman's truncheon,   
   a pack of cheap CD's, and a piece of flint and a small steel striker wrapped   
   together in a little piece of chamois leather and heads South to rescue   
   Howard and to kick some ass. Arriving in the South, Kramer then spends 4   
   weeks trekking through the jungle and manages to track down Howard's   
   kidnappers moments before Howard was about to be decapitated. Kramer single   
   handedly confronts the kidnappers, but despite being outnumbered 5 to 1   
   manages to whup them all before rescuing Howard and heading back up North.   
   Sadly Howard suffers an agonising death a month later from a rare tropical   
   disease caught whilst being held captive in the jungle.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)