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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
# 440
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Erin's obituary has appeared in the local newspaper.
Thank you Raspberry Rabbit for finding this and posting it on the Styx thread.
Tubbs [ 06. January 2011, 09:28: Message edited by: Tubbs ]
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I'm tired and emotional. How do you view the other messages. I got how to write one, and I did.
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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
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quote: Originally posted by PeteC: I'm tired and emotional. How do you view the other messages. I got how to write one, and I did.
There's a delay of about 24 hours between writing the message and it being published on the website. The obit only appeared recently (today?) so the messages may not be viewable until tomorrow.
Tubbs
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Sir Pellinore
Quester Emeritus
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Thanks, Tubbs. It was a brief factual obituary. I guess you and others have fleshed it out.
There is much about others that is known only to God.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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From what I could see, you had to state which 'state' you were from. Rather tricky if you don't live in the US.
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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
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quote: Originally posted by Chorister: From what I could see, you had to state which 'state' you were from. Rather tricky if you don't live in the US.
It accepted my post when I just entered my town and left the state blank.
Tubbs
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lily pad
Shipmate
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If you leave the page with the obituary up, it automatically cycles through the messages. I didn't understand it either at first.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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quote: Originally posted by Deckhand: There are four entries at the moment, one from Jacobsen, so perhaps you can just ignore it.
Not just jacobsen, but 2 others I recognise by name or place. Not that I am keeping tally. But I guess it just took time for the messages to be reviewed and posted
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Janine
The Endless Simmer
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I posted something -- I guess it will appear after review -- but I don't recall at any time that there was a place for my name. Email addy, of course, that was required, but no name. Maybe it's incomplete, then, a malfunction and didn't really get submitted?
Appreciate the links, folks.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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quote: Originally posted by Chorister: From what I could see, you had to state which 'state' you were from. Rather tricky if you don't live in the US.
If you just click 'next' each time your message is posted anyway.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
# 107
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quote: Originally posted by Sine Nomine: Now - a day late and a dollar short - we know what she looked like.
Where did you find a picture?
Moo
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
# 107
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Erin would have loved this description of location in the Guest Book.
London, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
I hope she knows about it.
Moo
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Sine Nomine
Ship's backstabbing bastard
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quote: Originally posted by Moo: quote: Originally posted by Sine Nomine: Now - a day late and a dollar short - we know what she looked like.
Where did you find a picture?
Moo
Moo, click on 'visit guest book' - It's over on the right side. Then click to enlarge. [ 06. January 2011, 13:37: Message edited by: Sine Nomine ]
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Autenrieth Road
Shipmate
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quote: Originally posted by PeteC: I'm tired and emotional. How do you view the other messages.
Click on "Visit Guest Book" next to her name at the top. (Maybe the link wasn't there when you posted, if none of the messages had been approved yet.) [ 06. January 2011, 13:38: Message edited by: Autenrieth Road ]
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Loquacious beachcomber
Shipmate
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Yep. A picture of Aunt Erin, holding two small children. Looking as American as apple pie. IMO.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
# 107
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Thanks, Sine.
Somehow, she looked much the way I expected her to.
Moo
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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quote: Originally posted by Moo: quote: Originally posted by Sine Nomine: Now - a day late and a dollar short - we know what she looked like.
Where did you find a picture?
Moo
If you visit the Guest Book, there is a picture of her with a nephew and neice.
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jlg
What is this place? Why am I here?
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Years ago, during some random thread conversation Erin was asked what she looked like. She posted a link to a '50s era advertisement featuring a perky red-head housewife illustration. I have always retained that image of her, but wondered if it was true or a red herring.
Well, she's missing the pearls and the Peter Pan collar, but it was a good match.
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Eutychus
From the edge
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quote: Originally posted by Tubbs: There's a delay of about 24 hours between writing the message and it being published on the website. The obit only appeared recently (today?) so the messages may not be viewable until tomorrow.
If they apply that moderation policy (which they don't seem to be) they are going to get snowed under pretty quick. They could do with someone with a keen eye and a good BS detector. Wait...
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I got to Page 8 of condolences. That's when I started to cry as I realised just how many of you I have actually met, of how many more I will meet and others I have not met yet, but recognise from the signature or the location (and a combination of both)
And they say the internet is a mass of strangers. Not our little corner.
Except maybe Kelly. I've wondered about that axe.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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She looked almost exactly like I pictured her! That almost never happens.
I love the "US minor outlying islands" Erin could unknowlingly spark a last pondwar. Wouldnt she love that?
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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"stranger" is a relative term, Uncle Pete.
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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quote: Originally posted by comet: She looked almost exactly like I pictured her! [...]
Interesting! Same here. - Always reminded/reminds me of a cousin of mine.
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Trudy Scrumptious
BBE Shieldmaiden
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quote: Originally posted by Moo: Somehow, she looked much the way I expected her to.
I feel it's a terrible shame that was posted only after her death, so that no-one here ever got the opportunity to call her "Sweet Auntie Erin."
I mean, not that I'd have had the nerve to do it, but someone should have.
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Trudy Scrumptious
BBE Shieldmaiden
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quote: Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious: quote: Originally posted by Moo: Somehow, she looked much the way I expected her to.
I feel it's a terrible shame that was posted only after her death, so that no-one here ever got the opportunity to call her "Sweet Auntie Erin."
I mean, not that I'd have had the nerve to do it, but someone should have.
Although, on second that, maybe that was a misprint, and that was her alter ego, the Sweet Anti-Erin.
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RuthW
liberal "peace first" hankie squeezer
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I gotta admit, she doesn't look anything like I thought she would. I thought she would be tall, slim and drop-dead gorgeous, wearing a little black dress and stiletto heels.
But I always do that -- people I like but never see I picture in highly idealized images. So you're all beautiful! Until I meet you.
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Leaf
Shipmate
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RuthW: You mean your avatar isn't a photo of you?
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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quote: Originally posted by comet: She looked almost exactly like I pictured her! That almost never happens.
I love the "US minor outlying islands" Erin could unknowlingly spark a last pondwar. Wouldnt she love that?
I said stranger. Not strange or weird. That's a given.
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lilBuddha
Shipmate
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If you click the link just above the guest book entry form, you access the complete guest book. There are currently 54 entries. The cycling text seems only to reference the first page.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Those teeth don't look at all sharp. We woz duped. I always knew that gleam in the avatar eye hid some secret truth.
Those nieces / nephews are going to miss her really badly.
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Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
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quote: Originally posted by RuthW: I gotta admit, she doesn't look anything like I thought she would.
I'm afraid my mental picture was influenced a while ago by the "tiny invisible judge", so was expecting someone tiny (as well as invisible and judge-like, obviously). For some reason I was convinced she was small and round with long wavy dark hair and an olive complexion.
Yes, over the years I've become remarkably good at forming detailed and completely inaccurate mental pictures of people I've never met.
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Zappa
Ship's Wake
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quote: Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious: quote: Originally posted by Moo: Somehow, she looked much the way I expected her to.
I feel it's a terrible shame that was posted only after her death, so that no-one here ever got the opportunity to call her "Sweet Auntie Erin."
I mean, not that I'd have had the nerve to do it, but someone should have.
But now I'm confused ... would the comment have been rewarded with a resounding reptilian snap (and resultant avatar modification, even) or the apparent enigmatic gentleness of the aunty on the couch ...?
(Hmm ... I'm guessing, but... )
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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quote: Originally posted by Ariel: I'm afraid my mental picture was influenced a while ago by the "tiny invisible judge", so was expecting someone tiny (as well as invisible and judge-like, obviously). For some reason I was convinced she was small and round with long wavy dark hair and an olive complexion.
She once said she was 5'8", so I knew she wasn't small.
Moo
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monkeylizard
Ship's scurvy
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jlg, I seem to remember the 50's cartoon thing too. That's how I always pictured her. The red background on her avatar must have subliminally kept me in that mindset of redhead. It's a great picture on the guest book. She looks very happy with those two mini-gators.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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She once told me she was 5'10, Moo, but, what's a couple of inches? And yes, she did go through a red hair phase (didn't we all?)
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Sir Pellinore
Quester Emeritus
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So she looked normal?
Why would anyone expect otherwise? Adopted persona and person often don't match. Perhaps she needed the 'terrifying' persona to deal with shippies?
Unless you really knew her well and some did and are emphatically not talking, I suspect you are largely in the dark.
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iGeek
Number of the Feast
# 777
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I had trouble with the guest book and ended up with two entries. Ah well, at least they're a bit different with the same theme.
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iGeek
Number of the Feast
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Forgive the gauche double-post ... 84 entries in the book just now. So glad that Erin's loved ones and friends can see the shower of love from all over the world.
(I have never in the past used and likely never in the future will use that smilie. But for this occasion, it seems an appropriate icon of what we're doing.)
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RooK
1 of 6
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I oddly thought she actually looked something like this:
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Question-- did Dave Walker do the honors on that avatar?
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RooK
1 of 6
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quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: Question-- did Dave Walker do the honors on that avatar?
Heh. No.
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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My picture of her will alawys be the 'gator with the troll in its mouth. Could that appear again please?
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Jonah the Whale
Ship's pet cetacean
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quote: Originally posted by comet: Erin could unknowlingly spark a last pondwar.
(my bold) Gosh I hope not. I would like to think there will be many more in the years to come.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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quote: Originally posted by RooK: quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: Question-- did Dave Walker do the honors on that avatar?
Heh. No.
I suspect that's a RooK original.
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dyfrig
Blue Scarfed Menace
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quote: Originally posted by Lynn MagdalenCollege: Actually her skin is much pinker and less scaly than I expected... go, Gator!
Because of using inverse video settings on our home computer, her avatar was always a beautiful pink allegator on a sky blue background.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: Question-- did Dave Walker do the honors on that avatar?
It was Simon I think. I put a bit about it here
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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No not Simon.
I asked permission to do it, Simon gave it, but it was already up by then, and Simon said it wasn't him.
Jengie
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