RIP Pat Flannery?

"David Spain" wrote in message
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David Spain wrote:
Alan Erskine wrote:
Is it the right town?

To the best of my knowledge it is.
I will post more details as I get them.

Dave

There have been no funeral arrangements made as yet, the
body has been cremated.

His parents are not surviving. There is a surviving brother,
I have requested my contact information be forwarded to him.


It surprises me that you guys are this interested in someone you only
know through Usenet. Have you guys ever met Pat in real life (IRL)?

If it *is* Pat than he passed away relatively young at just 56. He
posted here only a few days ago (September 24th).

Kulin Remailer wrote:
It surprises me that you guys are this interested in someone you only
know through Usenet. Have you guys ever met Pat in real life (IRL)?


You get a feel for someone after years of reading his postings here.
I never met Pat IRL (FWTW) but I'd hoped to someday. Now that is not
possible. IRL doesn't seem to have been that good to Pat either.
A one line obit in the local paper and nearly 2 weeks gone with no funeral
arrangements? Have a heart.

If it *is* Pat than he passed away relatively young at just 56. He
posted here only a few days ago (September 24th).

There was I time when I thought 56 was old, nearly ancient in fact.
Not so much anymore. All things are relative.

Dave

It surprises me that you guys are this interested in someone you only
know through Usenet. Have you guys ever met Pat in real life (IRL)?

If it *is* Pat than he passed away relatively young at just 56. He
posted here only a few days ago (September 24th).

This has happened on other groups - there's someone who consistently makes
intertesting posts - and you just get to expect them each day when you go
in - in fact you go in each day and look for his posts - and suddenly they
stop. The absence is noted and some other members try to sort out what
happened. In some cases the guy got sick and comes back, or he is having
problems with his internet provider and eventually reappears, and in some
cases he's just gone. If this is true, suddenly at home at 56 is truly sad
and shocking. His presence on the groups will be missed.


Val Kraut

In article ,
says...

This has happened on other groups - there's someone who consistently makes
intertesting posts - and you just get to expect them each day when you go
in - in fact you go in each day and look for his posts - and suddenly they
stop. The absence is noted and some other members try to sort out what
happened. In some cases the guy got sick and comes back, or he is having
problems with his internet provider and eventually reappears, and in some
cases he's just gone. If this is true, suddenly at home at 56 is truly sad
and shocking. His presence on the groups will be missed.

Sadly, this has happened before.

I'm a huge LEGO fan, and have been for years. On July 25, 1997, James
Jessiman passed away at quite a young age. He wrote the original LDraw
program (for DOS, of all things) which was the birth of the online LEGO
CAD community. Much, much later, LEGO came up with a program of their
own to do much the same thing (LEGO Digital Designer), but without
James, I'm not sure if they would have been "inspired" to release such a
program to the general public.

James was such a huge presence in the online LEGO community that his
memory has been kept alive through a the James Jessiman Memorial Award.

Jeff
--
" Ares 1 is a prime example of the fact that NASA just can't get it
up anymore... and when they can, it doesn't stay up long. "
- tinker

"Val Kraut" scribbled something like ...

If this is
true, suddenly at home at 56 is truly sad and shocking. His presence
on the groups will be missed.

He will be missed, and it is sad, but I'm not sure that it's shocking given
that Pat had admitted to health issues for the last several years.

/dps

"Val Kraut" writes:

It surprises me that you guys are this interested in someone you only
know through Usenet. Have you guys ever met Pat in real life (IRL)?

If it *is* Pat than he passed away relatively young at just 56. He
posted here only a few days ago (September 24th).

This has happened on other groups - there's someone who consistently makes
intertesting posts - and you just get to expect them each day when you go
in - in fact you go in each day and look for his posts - and suddenly they

Larry Lippman..

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A host is a host from coast to
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

I'm not sure who posted this:

It surprises me that you guys are this interested in someone you only
know through Usenet. Have you guys ever met Pat in real life (IRL)?

Some people think that pen pals are not real friends. I take it these
folks have never had a pen pal. The divide between friends on line and
friends in real life is not a line at all but an easily crossed grey
zone. I never met Pat Flannery but I have met an assortment of posting
friends from UseNet and ended up in person friends with them each time.

Be cautious when making the distinction between friends in "real" life
and friends on line. It is a statement that tells more about the writer
than it does about the readers.

"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message ...

I'm not sure who posted this:

It surprises me that you guys are this interested in someone you only
know through Usenet. Have you guys ever met Pat in real life (IRL)?

Some people think that pen pals are not real friends. I take it these
folks have never had a pen pal. The divide between friends on line and
friends in real life is not a line at all but an easily crossed grey
zone. I never met Pat Flannery but I have met an assortment of posting
friends from UseNet and ended up in person friends with them each time.

Be cautious when making the distinction between friends in "real" life
and friends on line. It is a statement that tells more about the writer
than it does about the readers.




What he said. Seriously, there are folks I've never met in person that I'd
consider I'm closer to than some folks I see on a daily basis.


--
Greg D. Moore President Green Mountain Software
http://www.greenms.com
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

"Kulin Remailer" wrote in message
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"David Spain" wrote in message
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David Spain wrote:
Alan Erskine wrote:
Is it the right town?

To the best of my knowledge it is.
I will post more details as I get them.

Dave

There have been no funeral arrangements made as yet, the
body has been cremated.

His parents are not surviving. There is a surviving brother,
I have requested my contact information be forwarded to him.


It surprises me that you guys are this interested in someone you only
know through Usenet. Have you guys ever met Pat in real life (IRL)?


I'm sad to hear the news.

He's been faithfully killfiling me for at least 6 years. I wonder
if he knew I read every one of his posts during all that time?
I'd occasionally change my 'alt' in some small way just to see
if he's still plonking me, and sure enough, each time he'd remark
about my new address without fail. No one else in my entire life
has been so determined to display their contempt for me.

The last direct remark from him I remember was at least
five years ago when he called me a bit 'snarky'. Whatever
that is, I'm certain I was guilty of it many times.

I bet he was a great person to know.

RIP!


Jonathan



"Sweet hours have perished here;
This is a mighty room;
Within its precincts hopes have played,
Now shadows in the tomb."


s

On Oct 14, 12:13*am, "Jonathan" wrote:
"Kulin Remailer" wrote in message

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"David Spain" wrote in message
m...
David Spain wrote:
Alan Erskine wrote:
Is it the right town?

To the best of my knowledge it is.
I will post more details as I get them.

Dave

There have been no funeral arrangements made as yet, the
body has been cremated.

His parents are not surviving. There is a surviving brother,
I have requested my contact information be forwarded to him.

It surprises me that you guys are this interested in someone you only
know through Usenet. Have you guys ever met Pat in real life (IRL)?

I'm sad to hear the news.

He's been faithfully killfiling me for at least 6 years. I wonder
if he knew I read every one of his posts during all that time?
I'd occasionally change my 'alt' in some small way just to see
if he's still plonking me, and sure enough, each time he'd remark
about my new address without fail. No one else in my entire life
has been so determined to display their contempt for me.

The last direct remark from him I remember was at least
five years ago when he called me a bit 'snarky'. Whatever
that is, I'm certain I was guilty of it many times.

I bet he was a great person to know.

RIP!

Jonathan

* * * "Sweet hours have perished here;
* * * * This is a mighty room;
* * * Within its precincts hopes have played,
* * * * Now shadows in the tomb."

s

Back in the days when I was an active poster rather than a lurker, Pat
was one of the real larger than life characters, all of whom seem to
have gone now, whether through mortality or other reasons. I'm
thinking of the likes of Beady, OM, Henry Spencer, Mary Schafer,
Rhonda Lea Kirk, doubtless many others deserving of mention. All with
their eccentricities, some subtle, some infuriating, but all
characters.