In memory of Clyde Rumpnell

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Clyde Rumpnell didn't cotton much to the word 'fetish'. The way he saw it he was a simple man - a hard working one at that (Clyde hadn't missed so much as a day at the HAPPY TIME ABBATOIR in the twelve years he had been employed there). Clyde was also an honorably discharged Marine veteran (earned himself a Purple Heart at Normandy to boot), a proud citizen who showed up on time for jury duty, voted more often than he wanted to, paid his taxes to the penny and did so without the muttering of a single complaint.

So what did it matter if old Clyde occasionally liked to have a 'few' on the weekends, before dressing up as a robot from an old Flash Gordon serial to drive down to 'At-la-tah', where he would rent himself a cheap hotel room off Peachtree and proceed to spend his hard earned money over at Winking Willy's Escort Service for the company of some of their finest ladies. As far as he was concerned this was still America... and what a man did in the privacy of his home made robot suit was no one's business but his own.

That is why I'd like to take this moment to salute Clyde Rumpnell, who has the honor of being Georgia's first 'Fan-Boy'. A man whose indomitable passion for Science Fiction, whiskey and robot cosplay has served as an inspiration for us all. Some sixty years later and his spirit lives on in the four day Bacchanalia known to as The Dragon*Con.