[DL] Requiem for a Reckoner's Opponent [OT]

[Xotzil@aol.com]

I know this is OT, but the irony of the situation just has to be mentioned.

Charles Schultz, undisputed king of childhood sadness was to have his last 
strip published today, Feb. 13th, 2000. I think they said it was going to be 
his 18,000th strip. I dunno about the rest of you, but I grew up following 
Charlie Brown, and I can't say that a lot of my childhood wasn't too 
different from his. Knowing that someone else out there understood that being 
a kid wasn't all that great a lot of the time made a lot of the general crap 
that being that young made it all a lot easier.

In perhaps one of the most heartacheing pieces of irony I think I've ever 
witnessed, he died last night, one day before he actually got to retire. He 
had had colon cancer, which was the reason for his retirement.

Pestilence, you have got a lot to answer for. Posse's, let's give him one for 
Sparky.

--Jacques