As the female half of a marital pair (and neither of us ever met Bruce), he said to me he got the impression that a woman's attitude to the man they married was pretty much the same as towards the pets they adopted ...

Confirmed by Filipino friends is that some older, single, affluent Filipino women have been known to own large dogs that they use for sex; so, they’ll have no need for a man who may just be after their wealth. Has even been a status symbol in previous times. Sounds like it could be true for women who can’t afford to keep big dogs, only a man who can pay his own way.

Ahh. crap.  Bruce has been such a great friend over the years, and has helped me out of a jam a few times. I'd say, easily 50% of my inbox is emails from Bruce, mainly his "daily dump". They come so relentlessly that I'd only get to a couple of them a week. At one point I was running out of storage space and I briefly thought about bulk deleting all the unread emails from him but then I thought, someday, I'll want to read these when he's not around any longer, so I kept them and archived them. I have enough to keep me going for the next 10 or 15 years.
He once drove 5 hours to my house to deliver a sand blasting cabinet that he didn't need and that he'd never even set up. I asked him if he wanted to stay over and he said, nope - it's only a five hour drive.  I have to find the photo I took that day.
 

Same here. I have a picture I’ve created in my mind of him but would like to see the real thing.

Anon wrote:

... Since he didn’t otherwise post pictures of himself, others may be reluctant to post pictures of him in deference to his preferences.

It would be a kindness though, If someone with pics of him would upload them to Postimages (the imaging service here) and PM youz guyz a link(s) even if not posting the pics, or link(s), in this forum.

Good luck.

That's pretty much it and I think your suggestion has merit. I will look at my photo archives when I get back home; I'm away for a few days.