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   From: 3cjmd@comcast.net   
      
   On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 02:01:37 GMT, "Ian J. Ball"   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article <4082f7eb.25245271@News.Individual.Net>,   
   > 3cjmd@comcast.net (Jaime M. de Castellvi) wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 18 Apr 2004 11:54:51 -0700, hunthurst@earthlink.net (KazamaSmokers)   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >My Favorite Thaxton seems to have disappeared. Ford's posts dwindled   
   >> >in recent months, even at his favorite haunts, and in the past few   
   >> >weeks have stopped altogether. It seems Ford is gone. A moment of   
   >> >silence is perhaps appropriate. Ford was Rick James to our collective   
   >> >Charlie Murphy... full-bore obliviousness like his comes along once in   
   >> >a blue moon, and I submit to you that we are poorer for his absence.   
   >> >Perhaps he is simply taking a sabbatical of sorts, refueling his   
   >> >reserves of misplaced disdain and unintentionally hilarious attempts   
   >> >at derision. I can only hope he returns soon. There should always be   
   >> >room on Usenet for the Newmans of the world, if only for our own   
   >> >entertainment. Godspeed, Fordster!   
   >>   
   >> I have it from a reliable source in the biz that he is taking a leave   
   >> of absence due to his unexpected pregnancy.   
   >   
   >Is it gonna be one of those "fish babies"?...   
      
   Neither fish nor fowl, not quite.  Rumor has it he plans to call it   
   Caliban (son of Buford) A. Thaxton.   
      
   Could be worse though.  Could have been minded to name it Zebulon.   
      
   Cheers,   
      
   Jaime   
      
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