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If my day-date planner is correct , it was 10 yrs ago today that Hunter S. Thompson expired.... he had a way with words..  " love is the feeling you get when you like something as much as your motorcycle" 
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Wasn't "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" a parody of H S Thompson?
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If my day-date planner is correct , it was 10 yrs ago today that Hunter S. Thompson expired.... he had a way with words.. " love is the feeling you get when you like something as much as your motorcycle"
I thought Sonny Barger said that?Anyway,TEN years?Boy oh boy, were did that go?It seems like no time at all since I heard the news of his death!
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"Oh Man I only ride 'em.I don't know what makes 'em work". Donald "Oddball" Sutherland
"Don't let the bastards get you down". Kris Kristofferson
"I am only paranoid because everyone is against me". Larry [Frank Burns] Linville
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If my day-date planner is correct , it was 10 yrs ago today that Hunter S. Thompson expired.... he had a way with words.. " love is the feeling you get when you like something as much as your motorcycle"
I thought Sonny Barger said that?Anyway,TEN years?Boy oh boy, were did that go?It seems like no time at all since I heard the news of his death!
Well , HST wrote a book about the Hell's Angels and would have ridden with Sonny so he may have picked that saying up from him....... HST was a very interesting dude... think he picked up the use of the word GONZO from "Uncle Ted" or Nugent got it from him....the world a plagerism
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Hard to believe it's been 10 years.
Still enjoy reading some of his stuff and immediately think of him whenever I see a Vincent.
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I own his Hells Angels book.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Bigger Acid head than Timothy Leary?
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I own his Hells Angels book.
I read it in about 1970 and picked up a copy when I stumbled across it again a few years back.
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"Oh Man I only ride 'em.I don't know what makes 'em work". Donald "Oddball" Sutherland
"Don't let the bastards get you down". Kris Kristofferson
"I am only paranoid because everyone is against me". Larry [Frank Burns] Linville
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Wasn't "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" a parody of H S Thompson?
Not so much a parody, more of an autobiography, lol.
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I've also heard that he is the inspiration for the character Duke in Doomsbury cartoon.
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But him living in Aspen sounds about right. I worked around there for a few years in the mid 70's.
Now that sounds like a worthy story to me Paul
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