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Very sad indeed! Scott put it exactly right! 

Our 4 month old son loves to play with the stooge
cables that usually are lying on the sofa (they make
this wonderful cling-cling noise when nudged). And
whenever he plays with them I get this cramp in my
stomach - I received my last batch of cables from
Larry just a week before his tragic accident. 

Thanks so much for your efforts Moe! And Best Wishes
for Paul H.!

Dino
 

--- Scott K Warren <scott@...> wrote:

> I'm sad to hear this, and much sadder about the
> personal tragedies
> which led up to it. Moe, thanks for all your help
> over the years. We
> can all understand why you need to wind it down, if
> you do. Paul H,
> thanks for all your help too, and I hope you make a
> full and speedy
> recovery. Larry, we miss you and will always be
> grateful.
> 
> skw
> 
> 
> On May 23, 2006, at 12:54 PM, mate_stubb wrote:
> 
> >  Time for another stooge update, I guess.
> >
> >  Paul H is at home and recovering very slowly. He
> is still unable to
> >  work and the prognosis for a return date is
> uncertain.
> >
> >  Paul's cousin Rick is now handling the family
> business that has been
> >  providing the manpower to support the stooge
> business. You may recall
> >  that on the weekend Larry died, we were
> discussing ending it all as it
> >  was just becoming more than we could handle.
> Another problem that hit
> >  us at the same time was that most of our vendors
> shut down, sold their
> >  companies, raised their prices, took a rocket
> ship to Mars, or some
> >  other @#$% thing.
> >
> >  Paul's access to manpower and company
> infrastructure seemed to be the
> >  rescue that I needed to keep it all going after
> Larry passed.
> >  Unfortunately, Rick has all he can handle just
> stepping into Paul's
> >  CEO shoes of the family business. He has
> indicated to me that he can't
> >  spare time and manpower for Stooge Industries any
> more.
> >
> >  So it is looking to me like it's time to wind it
> all down. Unless I
> >  can get Rick to agree to continue ordering and
> selling products that
> >  we DO have suppliers for, we will probably sell
> the remaining stock on
> >  hand and fold it up.
> >
> >  I would love to do panels (and end caps) again,
> but people have become
> >  used to the brackets. I don't know if anyone
> would be interested in
> >  the one without the other, so I'm not feeling
> highly motivated to beat
> >  the bushes for a new panel vendor and a new
> bracket vendor and a new
> >  flat rail vendor, especially if I would have to
> go back to doing
> >  everything from my basement.
> >
> >  I need to have a conversation with Rick to nail
> everything down for
> >  sure, then I'll have an official announcement for
> the list.
> >
> >  Moe
> >
> >  --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Koos Fockens
> <torikoos@...> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > The end caps are illustrated on their on line
> shop.  Dave Bradly 
> > (one 
> >  > of the 3 original Stooges :-) ), and Paul
> Haneberg's son are 
> > looking 
> >  > after the business as much as possible.
> >  > I believe there is a contact e-mail on it, but
> Dave  is also on 
> > this 
> >  > users group.
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
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