Damn 2004? That was before I even lurked around here. Still had 2 seasons left with Dick Vermeil.

I agree that it's TLO's responsibility to figure this out.

Looks like he made Legend status pretty quick back in the day

16 years ago already!

That's certainly a good theory.

Another theory is that he was an alien sent here to observe us, and he was sent back to his home planet. It makes a lot of sense if you read his farewell message. It wasn't health that stopped his posting; it was physics.

We'll know if we someday receive a message from him across the galaxy, but it's likely that it'll be thousands of years from now. Maybe we should sticky this thread.

I cannot believe it's been 16 years since 2004. The passage of time really freaks me out. I don't know why. Getting old and decades going by didn't creep up on me. Always knew it was gonna happen to me like everyone else. I heard a classic rock song the other day and realized....this song is 50 years old. Ugh. Crazy.

Here are things he posted about himself:

Date of Birth
February 1st, 1968 (52)

Name: Steve

Occupation: Graphic Arts Technical Service Representative

Could these be fakes? Possible but back then internet stalking and getting doxxed didn't exist. Who would put that occupation down as a fake?

Was he a copy repair man who glorified his job with a fancy title?

Did he repair printing presses?

Could he have killed someone with his car while drunk or on drugs?

Just a real interesting ending, kinda like the DB Cooper of CP. ;)

Wouldn't be one bit surprised if Mr. Blonde is regular poster that planted a seed and watching it blossom and laughing. It's almost up Clayton's sleeve but he doesn't have the this kind of patience to my best guess.

AustinChief, speak up!!!

Mr. Blonde has not been seen since he jumped out of a hijacked TWA plane with a million bucks in a backpack.

And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun...

never knew him.

That very well have been it

Haha. Well things got a hell of a lot worse than that!

Could CP solve this, is the real question? Just how good are you guys?

Well, he either wanted to leave and was too nice to say so. In fact, even went as far as to lie about it. I doubt that was the case. So the only other option is that he had no choice but to leave. And I can't really think of anything that would force someone to definitively leave an internet message board forever like that. Other than what...prison or death? Maybe I'm just not using my imagination enough. But digging into his post history, his 2nd to last post was 24 hours before his last post. It was in the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas thread and the post was "Oh, I'm getting a 'fro". That doesn't really help much. Maybe he's still playing San Andreas?

well all i can add is someone, as we've gone along here, over the years on CP mentioned he posted on the Royals board a lot and dropped his username (on that board) here. I didn't see it in his thread, but I can find it if you all wanna keep going at this. I love mysteries like this and will waste a week researching. But maybe Mo is right - just let it rest, his mentioning it was personal, and all.