All I saw yesterday was "We will remember you. . . " on the index, and so I thought "Not another comedian!" Turns out I wasn't too far wrong. . . . What a total bummer. I've got to admit I'll miss him, even though I was supposedly on his ignore list. . . .

I too enjoyed his posts on music--too bad he never had time to finish rerecording all those old 78's he was sitting on.

And I never realized he was a famous American football player besides! (Wikipedia: Paul Zukauskas) What a life! He was a true polymath!

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Charles Darwin

This is sad news indeed. I'll miss his posts.

My condolance to his family.

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"That's Not Blight. It's New Jersey" - The Wall Street Journal

He was an awesome person.
R.I.P.

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And so it was, however late . . .

Sure, he had the size for it, but I don't see how he could be more than a guard. He couldn't catch or throw with such short arms.

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This is terribly sad news.

The only consolation is that there's no shortage of good things to say about him.

I knew him best for his humour, including the amazing puns. Some of them were based on references that I didn't get, but I once received a PM from him offering to explain any that I didn't understand.

Whenever you saw his name appear in a thread, you knew the post was going to be witty or wise or both.

Knowing that there won't be any more from him is hard to take.

I had trouble with that link (wikipedia isn't letting us link directly for some reason), but when I searched through wikipedia, well, I don't think it is the same person, that person was born in 1979. Might be a relation.

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At night the stars put on a show for free (Carole King)

One Earth, One Sky - IYA 2009

He will never be to far from our minds, when we write anything on BAUT well will always think of what "MAK" will say when you have posted, and smile to yourselves.

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last, enjoy each others companyas this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

Paul did play football, I am trying to find in my millions of messages he sent me what position he played, they had a strange name too, because of the strange body ratio.

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last, enjoy each others companyas this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

Sad news indeed

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Are you a Bright?

I have not been here long enough to really know him. However, in every message board or usenet group I read, there are always a few people whose posts I read even if I am not actively following the thread; he was on that short list for me on this board. May his memory be eternal.

Nick

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Nick Theodorakis

Not sure my 1st post showed up.

I'm sorry to know this. Didn't know Maksutov all that well (I'm still fairly new), but did enjoy his replies in threads we both commonly posted in.

My sincere condolences to his family and friends.

It's unfortunate that it's only through loss that one truely appreciates all the things that were taken for granted. You will be missed, Mak.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

You know, we'll have to set up some sort of rotation to provoke the occasional pun thread in his honor.

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In Fallout 3, 'happiness' is a warm junkyard dog and a loaded gun. It's mostly the loaded gun.
- Moose's one-line review.

"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.

i never knew mr maksutov...but i feel a lost also as i read all the thots of high regard for this man..he sounded special...just wanted to say farewell mr maksutov...all the answers you were looking for will be answered now

reading this thread is very touching and emotional

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it shows you how much i know....not much i guess----"sohhfly"

Moose, I don't believe we have anyone that can fill those shoes.

Although Mike Alexander may do well at filling the chair, provided that it is on wheels.

I think that, if there are enough of us trying, we might make up the puns of one Mak. But it would have to be a lot of us.

When I first logged on yesterday evening, the first thread in two sections was about this, and I had a PM. I knew he'd been ill, so I knew what it was. I was sobbing before I opened either thread--or the PM.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

So sudden and sad!

Maksutov was always sure to bring some humour into a discussion. How precious that is, in these times!

From Hamlet
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will.

I know me and Mak did not get along all the time but we had some fun with puns. He seemed to have had a long and interesting life working on a number of projects and we will forever have those stories as long as there is computer memory. Man this is hard to take for someone I only know through a monitor.

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

He had all these in-codes. One time I was lost for an entry in the SF Literary Quote Contest, finally found one and posted it. Instead of just giving the answer he wrote "Dipping into ADV again, eh Mike?" Cracked me up. I knew that he knew I had been down in the basement, looking at my Wall of Old SF, and just grabbed Ellison's old anthology, 'Again, Dangerous Visions' and picked a story.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

I keep hearing a deep distant bell these days.

And now here!

Mak responded to many of my posts and his
friendly musical authority was greatly
appreciated. We had many laughs on this
strange electronic tavern! For some reason
I had a good going over on the ACRONYM game
a few weeks ago but it was delightful.

Its going to be different now Mak but if you
still have some spiritual reach I would much
like to see some television commentators have
a sudden choking fit the next time they
state we are all living longer!

Now I think the forth symphony of Mahler
will help.