BWB remembered

Monk schreef:

"Jack Daniels and women with big tits".

si non e vero, e ben trovato...





















(if it be not true, at least it is well found/said)

on 7/13/09 10:09 AM Peter Dohm said the following:
He once wrote a post about soaring with the eagles while on a hang glider
next to a cliff--and, if I didn't know better, I might have mistaken him for
a "green".

Must have been a rare sober moment. I think the reason he hated Sydney
so much was that she nailed him perfectly with this parable:

"A friend's neighbor has a pot-bellied pig. 5 years ago it was
funny and entertaining and more-or-less fit to come in the
living room. Now it's a big stanky porker which smushes the
veggies and tears up the flower beds every time it gets loose,
and it's just not going to be able to revert to anything else
no matter how much they wish it would."

On Jul 13, 7:440pm, Rich Ahrens <r...@iphouse.com> wrote:
on 7/13/09 10:09 AM Peter Dohm said the following:

> He once wrote a post about soaring with the eagles while on a hang glid=
er
> next to a cliff--and, if I didn't know better, I might have mistaken hi=
m for
> a "green".

Must have been a rare sober moment. I think the reason he hated Sydney
so much was that she nailed him perfectly with this parable:

"A friend's neighbor has a pot-bellied pig. 05 years ago it was
funny and entertaining and more-or-less fit to come in the
living room. 0Now it's a big stanky porker which smushes the
veggies and tears up the flower beds every time it gets loose,
and it's just not going to be able to revert to anything else
no matter how much they wish it would."

lol I've had my moments with El Senior Phillips. I even thought
about punching him one in the mouth. I got over it. He had his flaws
just like the rest of us.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monk" <email@anonym;
Newsgroups:
rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.rotorcraft,rec.aviation.piloting
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 8:43 AM
Subject: BWB remembered


I was cleaning out my emails and came across this little beauty from
BWB. Thought I'd share.

bwbill <email@anonym; wrote:


I took my brother’s small boy Christopher with me to a shopping
mall the other day and I lost him for awhile.

He approached a uniformed policeman and said, "I've lost my uncle
Billy."

The cop asked, "What's he like?"

Christopher replied, "Jack Daniels and women with big tits".

-Bill

I must have missed something, who is BWB and what happened?

"BobR" <email@anonym; wrote in message
news:email@anonym...
On Jul 14, 11:26 am, "Darkwing" <theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com> wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Monk" <laon...@hotmail.com>
>Newsgroups:
>rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.rotorcraft,rec.aviation.piloting
>Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 8:43 AM
>Subject: BWB remembered

>I was cleaning out my emails and came across this little beauty from
>BWB. Thought I'd share.

>bwbill <bwb...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I took my brother’s small boy Christopher with me to a shopping
>mall the other day and I lost him for awhile.

> He approached a uniformed policeman and said, "I've lost my uncle
>Billy."

> The cop asked, "What's he like?"

> Christopher replied, "Jack Daniels and women with big tits".

> -Bill

I must have missed something, who is BWB and what happened?- Hide quoted
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- Show quoted text -

BWB aka. Badwater Bill Phillips was a long term participant in the
rec.aviation.homebuilt newsgroup and was either loved, hated with a
passion, or some combination of both at the same time. He was a
builder, a flyer, a boastful and arrogant sob, a great friend, and
generally a real character. His greatest claim to fame would be
considered by some as his unique ability to stir up controversy and he
did a lot of that. While others would call him the friend you would
always want to have if you needed one.

Bill and his wife were involved in a crash of his Lancair last year.
Bill was killed and his wife seriously injured. Many of us have some
fond memories of Bill while others not so fond. Each will carry our
own opinions while at the same time regretting his passing. He will
be missed.


Thanks for the info, sorry to hear about his passing. Sounds like he was a
perfect fit for Usenet.

Thanks for the info, sorry to hear about his passing. Sounds like he was a
perfect fit for Usenet.

Yep, he was.

Nearly a decade ago, in the pre-troll days when rec.aviation.piloting was
still vibrant, I hosted a photo page for each rec.aviation poster to use.
Participants could send me pix of their aircraft, along with a short
biography, and I would post it on my website. In this way, we could all see
what each other was flying.

Hundreds of participants sent in pix of their plane, or maybe of themselves
with their first plane and their current plane, along with a paragraph or
two of background.

Badwater Bill sent me something like THIRTY photos, pictures of all the
planes he had ever owned or flown, and a mini-novel biography. His listing
was easily ten times the size of everyone else's -- but it was fascinating
stuff.

To say he was a character is an understatement. But what a character!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
Ercoupe N94856
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Was it really that long ago ??

Is the site still active?

Hi Paul,

Nah, I took the site down last year, after many months of inactivity.
There was simply no longer any point to it, since most of the people
pictured there had long since left rec.aviation for the greener pastures of
moderated chat rooms, where cretins like the trolls that have decimated
these groups are quickly and efficiently eliminated.

T-minus 36 hours for OSH departure. Hope to see some of you there!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
Ercoupe N94856
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"