It's a long story, lars.
The Reader's Digest condensed version is this:
(1) In late February 2005, a prominent rotund red-headed primitive was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and given but several weeks or a few months to live.
(2) The red-headed primitive accepted his fate with calmness and equanimity.
(3) In late April 2005, Doug's ex-wife started a "fund-raiser" to "save" his life, but it was really just a stupid prank to "get back at" a former employer of the red-headed primitive, nothing more than that.
(4) Decent and civilized people accepted the story at face value--which incidentally was the LAST time such a phenomenon occurred--but because there were so many holes and contradictions in it, questioned it.
(5) Doug's ex-wife turned such honest questioning into a jihad against decent and civilized people, alleging they were "killing" the red-headed primitive. The "wannabe a victim" thing again.
(6) The red-headed primitive died, as expected, in early July 2005.
For the record, it needs stated that despite the red-headed primitive being such a "close and dear friend" of Doug's ex-wife, the red-headed primitive and Doug's ex-wife had never met each other in real life, and knew of each other's existence only since November 2004.
This was probably the biggest black eye Skins's island's ever gotten--even bigger than the fiasco by the Bostonian Drunkard on May 12, 2006.
I for one am really embarrassed that, initially, in April-May 2005, I took the story at face-value.....but as mentioned earlier, that was the LAST time that's ever happened.
