Spooky 8 passes
Most of you were young (in stolen valor years) when we busted out Bob “Spooky 8” King for his book Spooky 8; the Final Mission Not only was it the biggest pile of crap I’ve ever read, it wasn’t entertaining in the least. In fact Bob’s emails to me were far more entertaining. After we got his actual records, he tried to convince me that the government had heavily redacted all of his secret squirrel stuff and basically I was holding toilet paper in my hands.
Well, it’s my sad duty to inform you that poor Bob has passed on to his great reward. It’s my understanding that it was cancer that got him and it took him quickly, in a matter of months, if folks are to be believed. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone who wasn’t a member of al Qaeda.
My prayers and best wishes go out to his family.
Category: Blue Skies
I had a really sarcastic comment involving artificial flowers, but will withhold it out of respect for the dead.
KARMA is a bitch !
Recently I felt a rush of hot air. Was it the flames from hell being fanned by a new member, or was it just a gas pass?
At least he is entitled to military honors at his funeral. There is another phony we’ve featured on here who has been having some health issues lately. This fellow never served a day in his life, but although he’s never answered any of his critics on here, I hear he is still privately clinging to the “classified records” story. If this fellow passes on, you can be sure I’ll be on the phone with his local VSO’s to ensure no honor guard shows up at his graveside.
It will be in interesting if Spooky has a military tombstone and what will be inscribed on it.
“Born: Classified
Died: Classified”
LebbenB…Well and simply said. I am sorry for his family. I do wonder how hos obit will read. It would be a kick in the head to open the paper and there in the obits is one with his name…and the rest redacted.
Maybe his epitaph should read, “If he told you, he’d have to have killed you.”
-OR-
“There he was, no shit.”
I got nothin’…….
Me neither.
Cool story bro.
Whats for lunch?
Spooky 8? Who?
If you need a shovel to help bury this true American hero, just let me know
Signed, John “Faker 6” Giduck
What are the odds he is faking this too?
(Lord, I apologize, and be with the starvin’ Pygmies down there in New Guinea. Amen…)
Haha! You just made me drop my phone and scare my dog who bit the cat. Dammit man! Warnings!
I don’t believe he’s dead. This is obviously been faked in order to embark on some uber top secret mission.
Tombstone reads,
“I AM RICE PADDY DADDY”
Cancer is no joke,but he still is a pos in my book,can one of you Amry dudes tell this stupid JarHead what a Spec 4th class is?
Today he’d be a Specialist (SPC). There used to be a separate career path for certain MOSs, at least from E-4 to E-7, designated as Specialist Four, Five, Six, and Seven) (abbreviated SP4, SP5, SP6, SP7). When I joined the Army in ’86, the 5 through 7 had been eliminated and everyone in those grades was now SGT, SSG, and SFC, but E-4s were still designated SP4 (pronounced “spec four”). A few years later the numerical designator was eliminated, leaving the current Specialist (SPC).
MrBill: at one time, rank insignia and the ranks SP8 and SP9 technically existed – they were created when E8 and E9 were created in 1958. I’m not certain that anyone ever was promoted to either rank.
SP8 and SP9 were deleted in 1968; SP7, in 1978 (you occasionally saw that one in military hospitals and, I think, military bands). SP5 and SP6 were deleted in 1985.
For once, Wikipedia actually has a fairly good write-up on something:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist_%28rank%29
Thanks, Hondo – a lot of info in that article was new to me – I was just going from memory.
The insignia was called a “Chicken on a Platter” because, well, it looks like a chicken on a platter:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/E-4_-_SPC.PNG
Specialist ranks were created so people who were good workers could get promoted and paid without having to actually lead people.
Thats about the only reason I, as a jarhead could figure it out.
Did anyone notice his obituary is heavily redacted? That was a close one. We all would have to be killed for what we knew. Thank you Spooky 8 for saving my life once again.
So if it’s true that these things come in threes and we have now bid adieu to Soup and Spooky, who wants to start a pool to guess who will be number 3? My money is on the World’s 4th most dangerous man, “Ranger” Burrell. Any takers?
OOH, a “Death Pool”? Meh, I nominate Phildo or Psul of the ballsack!
Cancer sucks, like Jonn I would not wish it on anyone other than AQ…
It is rare that someone doesn’t have friends and loved ones who care about them so, on that note, I offer my prayers for his family in their loss, and I hope that Bob is able to rest in peace in “the ultimate truth” — death.
Regardless of what our forefathers wrote all men are not created equal some are certainly born far more “equal” than others…but you are right, death disregards birthright and takes us all.
I am not certain is the ultimate truth, but it certainly is inescapable and it is indeed a great equalizer as no one escapes that grasp. One might avoid it longer than his birth mates, but none escape it.
All that exposure to secret, classified stuff must have exposed him to enough radiation to eventually kill him…tough way to go out.
Off to join the ranks of Soup Sandwich and Ike “No More” Densore.
The Poser’s Green is getting crowded.
Shouldn’t that be “Poser’s Brown”, GT?
Actually, it’s Malebolge, according to Dante;
As the eighth of nine circles, Malebolge is one of the worst places in hell to be. In it, sinners guilty of “simple” fraud are punished (that is, fraud that is committed without particularly malicious intent, whereas Malicious or “compound” fraud — fraud that goes against bond of love, blood, honor, or the bond of hospitality — would be punished in the ninth circle). Sinners of this category include counterfeiters, hypocrites, grafters, seducers, sorcerers and simonists.
So, wouldn’t Bolgia Two be a good candidate to be called “Fiddler’s Brown”, then? Or maybe Bolgia Five (tar can be brownish as well as black)? (smile)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malebolge
I was thinking that he was going to write another book and the “Company” couldn’t stand to take another classified information leak, like the use of remote viewers and time travel, so they made a soft hit on him to make it look like cancer.
Why is there a black SUV in my driveway?
Poser welcome wagon Jonn??