Exline became friends with the Coens and, in 1989, told them all kinds of stories from his own life, including ones about his actor-writer friend Lewis Abernathy ( one of the inspirations for Walter ), a fellow Vietnam vet who later became a private investigator and helped him track down and confront a high school kid who stole his car.

Control of the ConFurence Group was transferred to Darrel Exline in 1999, but by 2003 attendance had dwindled to 470, due to turnover among the staff and increased competition from other regional furry conventions.

A friend of the Coen brothers, Vietnam War veteran Pete Exline, also inspired aspects of the character.

" The Dude was also partly based on a friend of the Coen brothers, Peter Exline ( now a member of the faculty at USC's School of Cinematic Arts ), a Vietnam War veteran who reportedly lived in a dump of an apartment and was proud of a little rug that " tied the room together.

Exline also belonged to an amateur softball league but the Coens changed it to bowling in the movie because " it's a very social sport where you can sit around and drink and smoke while engaging in inane conversation ," Ethan said in an interview.

When Pete Exline told them about the homework in a baggie incident, the Coens thought that that was very Raymond Chandler-esque and decided to integrate elements of the author's fiction into their script.

The county is divided into thirty-seven townships: Antelope, Athol, Belle Plaine, Belmont, Benton, Beotia, Buffalo, Capitola, Clifton, Conde, Cornwall, Crandon, Exline, Frankfort, Garfield, Great Bend, Groveland, Harmony, Harrison, Jefferson, Lake, La Prairie, Lincoln, Lodi, Mellette, Northville, Olean, Prairie Center, Redfield, Richfield, Spring, Sumner, Tetonka, Three Rivers, Tulare, Turton, Union.

It was first reported in the U. S. in 1936 by arachnologist Harriet Exline ( as Tegenaria magnacava ).

* ConFurence is no more, by Darrel L. Exline ( archived version )

I knew where the American Rob went to school and dropped out, where he used to spin records, I knew two or three different record shops when I was growing up that had a Rob, a Dick and a Barry in them ".

Johnson's Republican opponent in the 1964 presidential election, Barry Goldwater, knew Jenkins from the Senate and from serving as commanding officer of his Air Force Reserve unit, but initially denied knowing him.

Saint John Hawke, now played by Barry Van Dyke, was suddenly revealed to be alive and well, having been working for many years under deep cover for American intelligence ( there were already contradictory statements about his fate, the Firm and Archangel knew where he was the whole time and was just using Stringfellow Hawke to control Airwolf in the original three seasons ).

McManus knew Barry and used him as the basis for his drawings of Jiggs.

The group sent a messenger whom Sofia recognized as Barry, a young man she knew ( and flirted with ) from the restaurant she worked in.

About a week after, Roscoe takes possession of another comatose body and begins wreaking havoc with anyone Barry Allen knew.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

He knew how to channel their exuberant disorderliness so as to transform them from mere plunderers into A-1 guerrilla fighters.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

The I. A. P. A. found itself driven from journalism into politics as it did its best to bring about the downfall of the Castro Government and the return of the Cuban press to the freedom it knew before Batista's dictatorship began in 1952.

Jonathan's letter came, as she knew it would, and he had accepted their child's death as another judgment from God against both Kate and himself.

Seeing the slanting hand, Kate knew uneasily that it was from the Yankee colonel.

For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.

Each brass handle and hinge shone for his reward, and he knew how to get at the dust in the china flowers and how to take down the long glass drops which hung from the chandelier.

In my letters I took on a personality that differed from the self I knew in real life.

The writer never knew from week to week just where the section might be.

They knew that their perceptual experience differed from objective reality since they had seen the desk and ball prior to putting on the aniseikonic lenses.

) He knew just the thing for her -- a treatment from his `` cosmic light ozone generator '' machine.

The King Arthur offered respectable and convenient lodgings to people from the suburbs who wanted to see a show and didn't want -- heaven knew didn't want!!

Gun set the captain's fifth of Hiram Walker inside the safe before he reported to Lt. Killpath, though he knew that Killpath's ulcer prevented him from making any untoward incursion on Herman Wolff's gift.

Gun knew it was Car 12, the wagon, returned from delivering Ingleside's drunk-and-disorderlies to the City Jail.

But even before he started across the oiled road to his Plymouth, parked in the lot under the cypress trees across from the station, he knew that he wasn't going home.

He knew that his God would save him from his enemies because He had saved him from his sins.

He didn't tell Miss Jen, but she must have got word from the cook or nurse, who of course knew those Quinzaine nigs, and she really took a fit.

At Yokosuka he was restricted to the confines of the Base because Walt Perry, being thoughtful, knew that Doc might have to draw some medical supplies from the hospital or the Supply Base.

Yes, I had cried out that I knew she'd do it, but without my fully realizing it at the time, it was a cry of triumph for her, praise at her deliverance from pettiness and greed -- and guilt.

But I swear to you from the moment I opened my eyes, I knew it was going to be a bad day.

They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.

Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

Its editors only knew of one example to point to, a public housing development of 278 homes in New Haven described by John Schulz in the March, 1950 issue.

The New Bedford Standard-Times has reported Knowlton as saying, long after the trial, that if he only knew what Borden said during his conversation with Morse, he would have convicted `` somebody ''.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

Although he had for many years " harbored an ambition to create work for a public square ", he " had never set foot in New York, and knew nothing about life in a rapidly evolving metropolis.

Guiler remained in New York City and was unaware of Nin's second marriage until after her death in 1977, though biographer Deirdre Bair alleges that Guiler knew what was happening while Nin was in California, but consciously " chose not to know ".

Dave Thomas was born on July 2, 1932 in Atlantic City, New Jersey to a young unmarried woman he never knew.

At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.

Wanting to complete the line-up with someone they knew well and whose musical skill and style was compatible with their own, New Order invited Morris's girlfriend, Gillian Gilbert from Macclesfield, to join the band during the early part of October 1980, as keyboardist and guitarist.

Bamford also claims that the CIA's Alec Station ( a unit assigned to bin Laden ) knew that al-Mihdhar was planning to come to New York as far back as January 2000.

He came from a church in New York City and accepted the Presidency even though he knew that Wabash was at that time threatened with bankruptcy.

He knew that the Dutch had established deeds for the lands east of the river ( New Jersey ), but not for the lands to the west ( Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania ).

There were conflicting reports about the sale in the New York Times ; one account suggested that the young McLean couple had agreed to purchase the diamond, but after having learned about its unfortunate supposed history, the couple had wanted to back out of the deal since they knew nothing of the " history of misfortunes that have beset its various owners.

The filmmaker knew a New York businessman who was making millions and working long days putting together deals all over the world.

That night Gervin knew that he needed 58 points against the Jazz in New Orleans.

" At a New Year's Eve party, Fredo lets slip that he knew Johnny Ola despite his previous denial.

Employing a good fastball, outstanding control, and, especially, a new pitch he termed the " fadeaway " ( later known in baseball as the " screwball "), which he learned from teammate Dave Williams in 1898, This reference is challenged by Ken Burns documentary Baseball in which it is stated that Mathewson learned his " fadeaway " from Andrew " Rube " Foster when New York Giants manager John Joseph McGraw quietly hired Rube to show the Giants bullpen what he knew.

In the documentary Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser, it is stated that Monk lived in the same neighborhood in New York City as Johnson and knew him as a teenager.

The New Nakeds embraced a radically different aesthetic than the norm of the time: foundations that featured a yellow undertone, instead of pink or peach ; eyeshadows, lipstick and blushes were brown-based, neutral tones that were free of the pastel, vivid, or sparkly colours cosmetics companies knew sold better.

According to a New York Sun obituary of Old Ranger, " the whole of Penobscot County knew the bear, and he defied the entire population ".

Fourteen families who knew Borsodi or who had heard of his project were willing to try the experiment after those interested in the idea had been " philosophically initiated the previous January ", The New York Times reported.

Lipsius then recruited the other three, who were New York jazz horn players he knew.