- Doc Barry, well-known internet commentator
and pundit has passed on. He was a unique man who didn't mince words in
his sometimes ascerbic and biting essays. But Doc's wonderful sense of
humor and irony were always lurking...waiting to pounce on the reader.
He always seemed to laugh at the right things and viewed life through the
eyes of someone who sees far more than the average soul. In tribute, we
are reposting one of his most recent commentaries.
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- Rest well, Doc. You've earned it.
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Doc Barry's Early
Predictions For 1999
By Doc Barry <docbarry@webtv.net>
- What's Up Doc?
- http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Stargate/5518
- C.©1998 by Doc Barry
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- The Sun will rise in the East every day.
There will be floods, tornados, hurricanes, lightning strikes, forest fires,
mudslides, avalanches, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, plane crashes, train
wrecks, ship sinkings, assassinations, wars, human rights abuses, destruction
of rain forests, and politician sex scandals.
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- Another pharmaceutical company will not
release its new drug study because it concluded the placebo worked almost
as well as the drug and without side effects.
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- Rumors will circulate on the internet
about the NSA's plan for handling massive landings of extraterrestrial
spacecraft. The plan shows how the ET's will be given grants of reserved
barren lands for setting up separated ET communities. Missionaries will
be assigned to offset the infidel religious beliefs of the ET's, and CIA
staff training experts will assist the ET communities on operating gambling
casinos.
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- BUT ALSO IN 1999 -------
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- A boy and girl will walk hand-in-hand
from the school bus after their first kiss. A new mother will look down
with happy tears at first glance of a live new infant on her chest.
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- A father will tell his six-year-old daugther
to stand on top of his shoes, as he teaches her how to dance. A young boy
will yell to his family, "I made the team".
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- A young girl will be jumping up and down
happily, waving her new driver's license. A woman at bedside in the nursing
home will say, "No, I'll stay and feed her, she's my Mother".
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- A young father, will command his wife,
"Hey, do what I tell you, stay here with the kids, I'll go in first,
it could be dangerous".
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- A female lover will ask, "But why
marriage now?", and he replies, "Because I want to keep you all
for myself".
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- A mother will wipe tears from her daughter's
eyes, as she explains that new teeth will come in, and she will be pretty
when she grows up.
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- A grown daughter at her father's hospital
bedside, will say, "I want to thank you after all these years, for
never telling Mother, just like you promised, you Dad, are the greatest".
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- An elderly former teacher will wipe away
a tear, as she watches the candidate on TV celebrating his election, as
she holds his thank-you note for keeping him after class, and making him
study.
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- I predict life will go on in 1999, cats
will rub against you, dogs will wag their tails when they see you, birds
will sing, babies will cry, children will be running and laughing, and
humans will love and need each other.
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- Life, will be enjoyed in 1999, it's great,
enjoy it. Happy New Year!!!
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- --Doc Barry Ý
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- A tribute message from his friend, Bud
Kolb is here:
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- http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Stargate/5518/
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