FYI:

> Since I haven't seen this posted here, two posts from the Caid list:
>
> First:
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> I have the sad duty to announce that Yang the Nauseating, one of the
> founders of the Dark Horde and a noted science fiction author, passed away
> today at his home in his sleep, of natural causes. He was 62. It's being
> reported on a couple of SF lists and in Tom Smith's Live Journal. Bob was
> scheduled to be Guest of Honor at Marcon this weekend.
>
> I met him first at Discon II in Washington, D.C. in 1974, where I also
> first met Sir Bela of Eastmarch and (now Mistress) Karina. I then
> encountered him at Pennsic III the next week, as Yang the Nauseating, of
> the Dark Horde.
>
> May he find a bardic circle where the Tully flows free.
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>
> Second:
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> From a friend in sci fi fandom, but the SCA specifics are in there:
>
> I've just received word through DI channels that Robert Lynn Asprin died
> suddenly today, on his way to Marcon.
>
> This was the man who founded both the Dark Horde and the Dorsai
> rregulars -- and via the intricate twists of the Foglios' brains, was
> therefore an important ingredient (as far as I'm concerned, anyway) in
> the development of the Jagerkin.
>
> This is a man who rode out Katrina in the French Quarter, and his only
> complaints were that the beer was warm and his toilet wouldn't flush.
>
> Raise a glass to Yang the Nauseating -- we'll not see his like again.
> Shai Dorsai!
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>
> And a link with more info:
> http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004578.html
>
> Raising a virtual glass,
> Baintighearna Muirghein Dhaire Faoilciarach /|\
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