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SIAP but can anyone confirm that Lightbulbbill actually passed away?
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Jun 4, 2025, 6:14 PM
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I’ve not been on tnet that much - and sporadically - of late, but reading the Scott Rhymer post and saw the comment that he was 88 and did pass. That’s not something to kid about, so figure there must be something to it.
If true, he will be missed.
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Absolutely not something to kid about!!
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Jun 4, 2025, 6:23 PM
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Thanks, Uncle Bill! I do hope LBB is OK!!
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Re: SIAP but can anyone confirm that Lightbulbbill actually passed away?
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Jun 4, 2025, 6:24 PM
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I don’t know, Seems like he just posted a few days ago
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Re: SIAP but can anyone confirm that Lightbulbbill actually passed away?
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Jun 4, 2025, 6:32 PM
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I checked his profile, and his last post was May 26 in reply to an ‘In Loving Memory’ Memorial Day thread.
I also see the tnetter that posted he had passed has actually been ‘at odds’ with Bill. While I hope the post was merely that tnetter’s idea of a jab at Bill, it was surely in poor taste if it was false.
Great news for Bill, but in poor taste, either way.
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Tiger Titan [46334]
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I dont know how anyone could be at odds with Bill.
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Jun 4, 2025, 7:11 PM
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He’s a great guy. A couple of guys on here give him a hard time but Bill seems to brush them off.
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You've never read the absolute crap he posts in P&R.***
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Jun 5, 2025, 12:56 PM
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So says the ultra liberal in Colorado .
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Jun 5, 2025, 1:34 PM
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You must not have read his P&R nonsense.
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Jun 5, 2025, 2:25 PM
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Let's just say he's never been shy to articulate just how little he regards others based on the color of their skin. I'll just leave it at that. I'm not sure that for many that equates to "great guy". It doesn't for me at least.
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I completely understand he is/was a racist.
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Jun 5, 2025, 2:38 PM
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That’s a known fact. I’m just poking the bear
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He had several posts a few days ago when his son...
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Jun 4, 2025, 7:16 PM
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.... was running the 100 mile race in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Re: He had several posts a few days ago when his son...
Jun 5, 2025, 5:37 PM
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are you sure it was not a 100 acres and a mule poast?
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Re: SIAP but can anyone confirm that Lightbulbbill actually passed away?
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Jun 4, 2025, 7:17 PM
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I’ve not been on tnet that much - and sporadically - of late, but reading the Scott Rhymer post and saw the comment that he was 88 and did pass. That’s not something to kid about, so figure there must be something to it.
If true, he will be missed.
I thought LBB was in his early 80’s. 83 or 84 years old.
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You're right. Bill is about five years older than I, so he's about 83.
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Jun 5, 2025, 4:38 AM
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He was at Clemson my freshman year, as we both were on "The Tiger" newspaper staff. Bill was a senior sports' columnist, actually a gifted writer and very much up on our athletics. He was a little older than most seniors.
I have seen nothing in obituary notices, so I pray he's OK.
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Re: You're right. Bill is about five years older than I, so he's about 83.
Jun 5, 2025, 4:58 PM
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did he ever use the N word in the time you knew him?, I know it was more popular back then. Not judging.
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I certainly hope not. All I know is his name is...
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Jun 4, 2025, 10:16 PM
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...Bill (William?) Willis and lives in Hilton Head per his profile. I can find no obituary after searching in SC and Ga (and Charlotte where I believe he's from). I think he's in his early 80's. He hasn't posted in a week, so that's kinda concerning. But, he's been known to take a hiatus from posting. Bill is a treasure and huge Tiger fan!
If untrue, it's a really bad and totally unnecessary post by hotsawce
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Re: I certainly hope not. All I know is his name is...
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Jun 4, 2025, 10:20 PM
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He is FOS. Multiple on that list have been around within last few days to include SOLOS.
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Unfortunately someone (a relative?) posted as Solos...
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Jun 4, 2025, 10:35 PM
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...saying he passed away on 5/10/25. He was fighting brain cancer.
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Re: Unfortunately someone (a relative?) posted as Solos...
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Jun 4, 2025, 10:46 PM
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Did not see that but he was logged on Jun 2nd.
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Re: Unfortunately someone (a relative?) posted as Solos...
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Jun 5, 2025, 8:34 AM
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If Bill has passed it is a sad day indeed. We already have such a small number of true positive Tigers on TNet. If true, RIP Bill, he’s carrying that Clemson flag through heaven. If not, thank goodness!
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Re: I certainly hope not. All I know is his name is...
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Jun 5, 2025, 9:00 AM
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That's what I would do!
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Re: SIAP but can anyone confirm that Lightbulbbill actually passed away?
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Jun 5, 2025, 9:03 AM
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LBB, WE NEED YOU TO POST
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Re: SIAP but can anyone confirm that Lightbulbbill actually passed away?
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Jun 5, 2025, 9:38 AM
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Check the politics board. He’s there way more than the general/football board.
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You guys know me
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Jun 5, 2025, 3:09 PM
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and sorry to hear he passed, as I know a lot fo you guys liked him. But his behavior in the PnR forum over the past year was 1 notch below Nazi. We reached out to him like a friend, but he continued, then amplified.
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I had no idea. I stay away from anything that involves the discussion of politics.
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Jun 5, 2025, 5:35 PM
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That is a winning strategy these days. But there is nothing wrong with polite, civil discourse and the exchange of differing ideas. But calling people pedophiles and hitting send on thinly veiled racist posts to make a political point is a different thing.
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Yeah he posted crazy crap like Miura. Just bizarre cultish behavior.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Miura died from a heart attack based on his angry posts on the politics board and the way he was so worked up all the time. However, if LBB passed away I’m sad for his family. We agreed on nothing politically and also he had said multiple times he was around 83 or 84 years old.
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Well I take that back. I did agree with him about the illegal immigration problem as most Americans do and men competing against women.
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Has this been confirmed?
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