Does anyone Remember DU Poster "OneEighty" and can you tell me how to search for him...He Died

[KoKo]

but he had great posts from his remembrances of his life. I've been searching through DU Archives and can't seem to find him. I know that "Server Upgrade" deleted many of our posters "old emails" but I think I'm not putting his "Nickname" in correctly that I keep getting "0" for him.

Anyone know where he is in archives and how to post his name in "correctly" that Search will work?

:shrug:

[seemslikeadream]

1. your old emails aren't deleted KoKo01

look above your pms

[KoKo]

16. that's where they stashed them? Thanks...I'll check it out

I know Skinner posted something about the old e=mails...but I lost it somewhere. Thanks.

[NMDemDist2]

2. i do remember him

but can't help with the username :cry:

we are losing too many of our 'old peace warriors'

this administration is killing us old farts off way too fast.

[Fridays Child]

3. I think his username was oneighty (only one "e").

[NMDemDist2]

6. yes, I found his profile

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=109851

[Kadie]

4. Here is his journal...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/oneighty

I tried and had trouble with the search earlier. Maybe it has a few bugs too.

[KoKo]

7. THANKS to BOTH OF YOU!.. For Finding...Ashamed to say ...I didn't look in DU Journals

and I had spelling wrong...but Many Thanks! :thumbsup:

I wanted to read some of his posts tonight...just feeling nostalgic...and it was frustrating that I couldn't remember his handle to get the post... I should have searched "Journals."

I haven't updated my own Journal...in so long..

[Kadie]

18. I love to read oneighty's posts.

So, thank you for your post, and for thinking about him today and giving us all a chance to spend a little time reading his words again.

:hi:

[proud patriot]

5. I remember him

:) I can't help you find though

[KoKo]

9. Thanks to Posters Above on Thread...Here's a Sampler of his Writings:

oneighty's Journal
Lemon Meringue Pies Are Love?
Posted by oneighty in The DU Lounge
Fri Sep 08th 2006, 10:59 AM
There were three of them looking unfinished because Gramma did not have enough eggs for the Meringue. It was the end of our short summer stay with Dad's parents in their cottage near Lake Ontario. World war two was still a year or two away. On the last day of our stay Gramma gave us the Meringue-less lemon pies. Lois, Eunice and I did not care. And with some disbelief we were told we could each eat a whole pie. Oh it was so good with each delicious bite carefully savored and tasting so good...
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The Red Chair. Epilogue
Posted by oneighty in The DU Lounge
Sat Aug 26th 2006, 11:02 AM
1993. The red chair is in my bedroom now across the room where I sit. I remember Jose from Puerto Rico sitting in that chair kicked back relaxing. He and his girlfriend were staying with us for a while between places to go to work the farming fields. The lever controlling the chair position was missing. Jose has rigged a box end wrench to replace the missing lever. Jose and his girlfriend had a baby girl about his time. The child was born incomplete and will always be about a year old. They st...
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A veteran and a sucker.
Posted by oneighty in The DU Lounge
Thu Aug 24th 2006, 12:37 PM
The suckers made of hard candy mounted on a white cardboard sucker stick and wrapped for sanitary reasons sell for ninety-nine cents a bag at the local drug store. The veteran made of flesh and blood and and dreams and tears and fears sometimes wonders into and out of the various rooms at the VA hospital where I am a guest much as he is. I am a little bit afraid of him as I watch him in his nightly search for midnight goodies. He has found my bag of suckers. He sits in a nearby chair his tee...Read entry | Discuss (10 comments) | Recommend ( votes)


Have I grown too old to dream?
Posted by oneighty in The DU Lounge
Sat May 20th 2006, 01:20 PM
I wonder as I rush to my seventy second birthday. Now I see yesterday as being more interesting than tomorrow. It is like once when the motor on my crab boat quit and I waited patient for (perhaps) rescue. While I sat alone on my boat anchored up in the brown water salt creek surrounded by salt marsh grass I had no fears of yesterday or tomorrow. In the distance I could see the Cape Romain light house and the adjacent tower and I knew I was not alone. But now I am not so sure. 180
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I will take you home again Kathleen
Posted by oneighty in The DU Lounge
Sun May 14th 2006, 05:00 PM
My Dad would sing that song almost so low I could barely hear it. Sometimes he might whistle the tune. I doubt he was even aware of it. Kathleen was my mother. She and Dad were divorced when I was four years old. I went with Dad. I waited and waited for Dad to take Kathleen home again. He never did. But years later as Dad lay dieing I brought Kathleen to him. I left them alone together. They were holding hands. A thought on my Mother's day. 180
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The Plum
Posted by oneighty in Writing Group
Sun Apr 30th 2006, 05:59 AM
Carl and I came upon the plum in the overgrown fields of a dying farm. The home had already fallen to the earth. The nearby forest is approaching the very last plum tree in the old orchard. On the last plum tree in the orchard is also the very last plum. It is swollen ripe with the resources of nature, purple and black, glistening wet in the early morning sun. The last of the wet collects into beads of water on the plum and drips slowly to the ground. The plum is removed from the tree. Carl a...
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The Golden Seed

[deadmessengers]

12. Good grief that's good.

That is a very, very rare talent on display there.

[proud patriot]

14. Thanks

:)

[midnight]

21. Enjoyed reading these tonight. I don't remember his posts.

Darn,I wish I had been aware of this poster.

[skids]

8. Try...

This.

[KoKo]

10. Thanks...I got his spelling all wrong...glad to know Google "does him" but I just posted some stuff

from him above that other DU'ers linked me to from Archives. It's kind of a good nostalgic read...

He was a character with much life experience. Glad to know that GOOGLE still has him...even though he's passed and that fellow DU'ers could find his writings...even though I forgot to check "DU Journals."

Thanks!

[KoKo]

11. Please check Post #5 for "Sampler" of his writings if anyone wants to remember who he was..

and some good stuff he wrote. "Take you home Kathleen" was one that goes to the gut. :cry:

[Madspirit]

13. k&r...n/t

[UTUSN]

15. He *died*?!!1 No!!1 n/t

[KoKo]

17. Sorry should have said he "died awhile back" and it came out looking

like his death was recent.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

19. Yeah, he has been with the Sky Bos'n for a

while now.

I really miss him.

And Monkeyman too.

Fuck. We are all getting a bit long in the tooth, huh?

[myrna minx]

20. I really miss oneighty. n/t

:-(