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Greybnk48

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19. I remember him as the Fracking King.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Thu Sep 12, 2019, 11:05 AM

Sep 2019

Running commercials all the time about how we could get so much fuel if we were permitted to really, really, trash the environment before anyone knew what it really did. Fuck him.

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T. Boone Pickens, larger-than-life energy tycoon and OSU diehard, dies at 91 [View all] alp227 Sep 2019 OP

That's too bad. He was a bloated asshole anyway. JohnnyRingo Sep 2019 #1

Another big Republican finder goes bye-bye Vogon_Glory Sep 2019 #2

He's dead then oswaldactedalone Sep 2019 #3

Fuck him and his swift boat vets friends... Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #4

He was never on my "Good Guys" list ... guess you're not supposed to say this, BUT RKP5637 Sep 2019 #5

Another mammon worshiper that should have never been. n/t MarcA Sep 2019 #6

Articles never mentioned that he was one of the first persons to invoke greenmail (along / ... SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #7

Asshole. Paladin Sep 2019 #8

buh bye EveHammond13 Sep 2019 #9

'T. Boone Pickens' is the most Oklahoma name in the history of Oklahoma. Aristus Sep 2019 #10

Two names I remember from the Nightly Business Report of the 1980s bucolic_frolic Sep 2019 #11

He would have only lost $150M in the wind business.......... Bengus81 Sep 2019 #12

The man behind the John Kerry swiftboating. F him. nt DURHAM D Sep 2019 #13

... blogslut Sep 2019 #14

Put the coins on his eyes as he tries Miigwech Sep 2019 #15

I get it... JohnnyRingo Sep 2019 #18

is he the guy who said the American people "need to turn up their Miracle Ear"? CTyankee Sep 2019 #16

Good riddance to a rapacious asshole dalton99a Sep 2019 #17

I remember him as the Fracking King. Greybnk48 Sep 2019 #19