Well, I think he sorta did. see the article snippet below...
I went to the Univ of Arizona growing up, and I remember these ads ("weird ad man...Anyways, where's the beer dude...") I just had no idea how long it had been going on...Being a non-conspiracy beleiver and Occams' Razor kinda guy, I figure it's the lawyer guy (hungerford).
Check this out: (fm:
http://www.explorernews.com/articles.../export899.prt)
"The ads typically run as full-page spreads with additional information on corresponding pages. According to Wildcat Advertising Manager Jeannette Brauchli, the ads consistently appear in the most expensive advertising areas of the paper. While she refuses to disclose how much is being paid to run the ads, full-page ads in this section cost about $1,100.
According to Brauchli, Robert Truman Hungerford, 56, has placed the ads in the paper for at least the Last decade. Before then, it is unknown whether he, or someone else, delivered the ads.
Hungerford claims he places the ads for an organization and that he sympathizes with its motivations, but he refuses to confirm his membership in the group or provide information about it. Instead, the reclusive lawyer in downtown Tucson says he acts as its legal counsel. The relationship, he says, bars his ability to discuss any aspect of its membership.
Though Hungerford is strangely cryptic and mysterious about his connection to the ads, he is the only solid connection to them and therefore is the key to unraveling the May Day Mystery.
An undergrad at the university in the 1970's and a UA law school student in the 1980's, Hungerford boasts an impressive number of connections to recurring themes and topics in each ad. A self-described anti-social hermit, Hungerford contends that he could be insane, and his relationship with the ads is inexplicably linked to that insanity.
"It is in all likelihood that I am a disturbed, mentally ill person," he says "and these writings are no doubt the ravings of a madman."
With an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the UA and a doctorate in theology from Drew University in New Jersey, Hungerford is a member of Mensa and a former member of a variety of mathematics, statistics and historical societies.
His downtown office is littered with books on cryptography, history, Languages, physics, medicine and a variety of other topics. While he possesses a vast collection of language-to-language dictionaries, almanacs, encyclopedias and other references, Hungerford denies he has ever read the volumes in his office.
"I pick out books because of their color, nothing more," he quips.
Between an assortment of weapons such as knives, machetes and guns on his walls are handwritten Messages in Hebrew and hieroglyphics, posters of human anatomy and framed collections of stamps and other oddities.
Given the fact that in its 25-year history no other real individual can be connected to the mystery, critics of Hance's site and even individuals who claim to know Hungerford directly say they believe he is the sole creator of the ads.
One source is certain Hungerford alone publishes the ads to flaunt his own intelligence; however, the source refused to be identified fearing retribution from the hermitic lawyer.
When confronted about the possibility that he is the sole originator of the ads, Hungerford contradicts himself into oblivion, first noting the lunacy of the ads and himself, then admitting that if such an organization existed, it would be in its best interest to convince its enemies that it was crazy.
"It is entirely possible that all of this is the work of one person, disturbed or otherwise, it could be for amusement, could be mental illness, could be anything," he says. "But on the other hand ... that wouldn't be a bad cover, if one needed a cover."
Hance says he is convinced Hungerford is merely a member of an organization publishing the ads, not its driving force. And though Hance has met with the lawyer on several occasions to fix his computer, Hance says he is neither connected to the organization behind the ads nor interested in pursuing an answer to the riddle through Hungerford."
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Originally posted by geoschmo:
If this guy works for the paper, why doesn't he just ask the ad department who bought the ads, and ask them what it all means. 
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