[Vision2020] The Doug Stambler Experience

[Tom Hansen]

Oh, yes.  The infamous rantings of Doug Stambler.  I remember them well,
Joan.  

 

I kinda felt sorry for him during the few times he wasn't on-line trashing
his "target" of the day.  He was (and assume still is) not financially
wealthy by any stretch of the imagination.  

 

Remember when he once managed to accumulate enough funds to take himself
back to the east coast (his home of origin, I imagine) by bus?  He got as
far as some podunk town in Minnesota.  He managed to get on-line and onto
Vision 2020 and provided the V2020 subscribers with an update of his
incomplete travels back east.  He explained that his funds had run out and
that if he could manage to collect a few more dollars, he would be able to
complete his voyage home.  Some very kind soul wrote down Stambler's mailing
address and mailed him the funds that should have taken him to the
completion of his journey east.  Wrong.  A few days later, who do you think
showed up in Moscow, Idaho one more time.  That's right, Mr. Doug Stambler.

 

The trip back east apparently did not work out for Mr. Stambler.  Several
months later he headed out to California.  He managed to post a few times
from the bay area, but that's been quite some time now.

 

Has anybody heard from Mr. Stambler?

 

Just curious.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

PS to Joan -  I feel you are right about the two Vision 2020
Stambler-wannabes.  The names may be different, but the smell is
unmistakably similar.

 

 

 "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"

  _____  

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of joanopyr at earthlink.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:14 PM
To: Vision2020 Moscow
Subject: [Vision2020] The Doug Stambler Experience

 

Ladies and Gentlemen of Vision 2020,

 

Those of us who have been on this list for a few years will remember poor
Doug Stambler, who was once our resident schizophrenic.  Mr. Stambler posted
ten, twenty, or thirty times per day -- incoherent, rambling, paranoid
conspiracy theories.  He saw all; he knew all; he could predict all.  (He
was also heavy with the libel and the capitalization.)  There was no
reasoning with Doug Stambler, and no reasonable conversation was possible
either with him or around him.  LIke a drunk on a city bus, he spent all day
every day vomiting on the regular commuters.  In short, he was hopelessly
disruptive.  Those of us who got the wise idea of adding him to our "block
sender" lists soon found that Mr. Stambler had bypassed them by changing his
email addresses rapidly and at random.  The question soon arose of what to
do: should he barred from Vision 2020?  And if so, by whom?  

 

In the end, we decided as one (though Mr. Stambler was frankly many) to
ignore him.   

 

It is now clear that we have not one but two new Doug Stamblers on Vision
2020.  I intend from here on out to ignore them.  When they change their
email addresses, I'll simply update my block sender list.  I will not
respond to their posts; I will not be provoked.  I can only recommend that
my fellow Visionaries do the same.  Don't feed a stray dog if you want it to
go away. 

 

'Ere long we will again have productive conversations on this list.  As soon
as I regain my own equilibrium, I intend to be part of them.  In the
meantime, I'll reminisce about the time Crazy Charlie barfed into my Aunt
Colleen's pocketbook on a Capital Area Transit Bus in Raleigh, North
Carolina.  Sic transit gloria.

 

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment 

www.auntie-establishment 

 

 

 

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