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TSN
Member # 31
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Hunter S. Thompson shot himself in the head yesterday.
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Sol System
Member # 30
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quote: Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
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Aban Rune
Member # 226
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I don't know... apparently they also use guns.
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Jason Abbadon
Member # 882
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Benicio Del Toro looks like a dead man himself in that pic.
Thompson lived in a "fortified compound"?
One might think is sanity was not all it should have been toward the end.
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TSN
Member # 31
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Toward the end?
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Jason Abbadon
Member # 882
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Well yeah- his books come across a pretty dry and factual to me.
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Sol System
Member # 30
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My current favorite HST anecdote involves someone, at his home, asking him to sign a book, which he prompty took outside and shot a hole through, by way of an autograph.
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Jason Abbadon
Member # 882
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Picasso would have appoved.
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Mighty Blogger Snay
Member # 411
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Wow. For a writer like Hunter S. Thompson, you'd think he would've picked a more original way to commit suicide.
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Mars Needs Women
Member # 1505
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I guess he had writer's block.
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Jason Abbadon
Member # 882
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More original like what exacly? Suicide has been done to death.
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