October 10, 2022

another great one is gone

I did not post nor read blogs this weekend. A mini-break as it were. It is with great sadness I discover this morning that Denny Wilson, The Grouchy Old Cripple, has passed on. GOC was the first blog I ever read, I don’t remember how I ended there or from what search. I started reading him every day. A year or so later when I started my blog he was very kind. He sent me a crippleanche early on, boosting my readership. I will miss reading his blog. The world is a little less enjoyable today. RIP.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I remember him back when I blogged.. James Old Guy

Cappy said...

Blogging was the best. Keep up the good work HB.

Ralphd00d said...

One of my fave reads. He will be missed.

Practical Parsimony said...

What is a crippleanche?

Joe said...

In the old days a big blogger link would send a huge amount of visitors — an avalanche— to your site. GOC called this a crippleanche.

Denny sent hundreds of visits my way at a time when I averaged maybe a dozen hits. Many of those fine folks kept coming back.

That was back before Facebook and Twitter when blogging was big.

Thanks to the GOC kickstart I averaged close to 1,000 visits a day for a time.

I had better content back then.

Jean said...

So very sad. He was a character among characters.

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