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From: grue@mail.ru (Timofei Shatrov)
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Subject: Re: For the 3 wise men!
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:36:21 GMT
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On 31 Dec 2002 02:50:43 -0800, mic@dataweb.nl (Mic) tried to confuse everyone
with this message:

>Andreas Freise <adf@mpq.mpg.de> wrote in message news:<arj4ua.j8h.ln@adfpc.amp.uni-hannover.de>...
>> On 22 Dez 2002 Tom Bampton wrote:
>> [...]
>> > Me too. Very cool. I also liked the little poem you viciously snipped ;-) Those
>> > dunes really do rock. They flow nicely.
>> 
>> Yep, cause they are from jjs aka John Stachowicz:
>
>Just in case you do not remember who John Stachowicz was...
>
>Johannes J. Stachowicz was born in the ghetto of Warsaw. He is the
>single survivor of a family of 17 (his parents, 3 brothers, 11 sisters
>all died in Auschwitz). As a toddler John was adopted by Theo and
>Hetty Brahms in Sweet, North Carolina. John grew up as 'normal'
>teenager: he went to war in Korea (even made it to lieutenant), and
>set up a business in tobacco in Charlotte, NC. December 24 Eve 1965
>his parents told him he was 'just' an adopted child of the Brahms's
>and Stachowicz was his real name. In 1968 John sold his tobacco shops
>and went to Palestine. During the Yom Kippur War John lost his right
>arm.
>
>After this dreadful event mister Stachowicz dedicated his life to the
>arts. John was a three times winner of the 'ASCII-artist of the year'
>competition (1978, 1982 and 1984). He also took part in the 'Ceuta to
>Congo Camel Contest', a camel endurance race over 5000 miles. In
>September 2001 John Stachowizc was found drowned in the oasis Al
>Khamalla near the Algerian and Niger border.
>

Tell me you're joking. He posted here in 22.05.02.

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