Non-motoring > Obituary of a virtual friend.	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Manatee	Replies: 38

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:12   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Manatee

tiny.cc/Luddites Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:33   Obituary of a virtual friend. - nice but dim

Lud? Based on the URL? Sad to hear. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:33   Obituary of a virtual friend. - No FM2R

Impressive. Not a finger in a bucket of water. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:36   Obituary of a virtual friend. - sooty123

I think he went on here by another name, I guess it confirmed what quite a lot on here suspected that he'd passed away. Btw how did you find the obituary and know that was him ? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:42   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Duncan

Armel Coussine? Although he had previously used Lud. Same bloke, do we think? Timing is about right. Last edited by: Duncan on Fri 5 Jul 19 at 12:43 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:44   Obituary of a virtual friend. - sooty123

>> Armel Coussine? Yes that's the one. >> Although he had previously used Lud. I don't remember that user name. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:49   Obituary of a virtual friend. - VxFan

>> I don't remember that user name. IIRC, Lud was the handle he used on HJ. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:54   Obituary of a virtual friend. - sooty123

IIRC, Lud was the handle he used on HJ. >> Fair enough, I don't really remember many user names from that far back. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:47   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Bromptonaut

>> Btw how did you find the obituary and know that was him ? I don't think sussing his identity was that difficult, he gave us plenty of clues. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:52   Obituary of a virtual friend. - sooty123

> I don't think sussing his identity was that difficult, he gave us plenty of clues. >> >> I can't say I knew his real name or remember any clues, but then I didn't really go 'looking' for him. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 12:56   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Zero

There is no doubt it's him Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Fri 5 Jul 19 13:06   Obituary of a virtual friend. - R.P.

It is him sadly. He contributed greatly to this site and to my motoring vocabulary ! His stories were great. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 13:06   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Runfer D'Hills

It is him, bless him. I enjoyed his posts. RIP. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 13:09   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Manatee

I didn't think he would have appreciated being outed explicitly although he mentioned some of his work a couple of times, which I was interested in enough at the time to read. I'll leave it to the mods to decide whether the nom de keyboard should be mentioned. Those to whom it matters will know, to those who don't know it doesn't matter. Quite a life. But we knew that. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 13:12   Obituary of a virtual friend. - No FM2R

I suspect that one of the things he would not have appreciated is an obituary. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Fri 5 Jul 19 13:12   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Ambo

The obit resonates a bit with Armel. We exchanged the occasional remark in French and he said he knew some of the journalists on the Le Monde newspaper. He spoke as if he knew his way around Fleet Street as well. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 15:45   Obituary of a virtual friend. - zippy

AC always livened up a debate on here. RIP. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 16:20   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Lygonos

RIP John. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 17:05   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Duncan

His last post on 24th March 2017. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 17:12   Obituary of a virtual friend. - VxFan

>> His last post on 24th March 2017. I remember the last few months of him on here, starting to suffer from amnesia, thinking he had posted something when he hadn't, or replied to completely the wrong thread. Poor old Lud. RIP. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 17:18   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Bromptonaut

>> >> His last post on 24th March 2017. >> >> I remember the last few months of him on here, starting to suffer from amnesia, >> thinking he had posted something when he hadn't, or replied to completely the wrong thread. He squirrelled posts in various places and then couldn't find them. I'm not convinced the cause was amnesia............ Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 17:23   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Robin O'Reliant

Quite possible he had been ill for some time and did not feel up to posting. One would rather the end was quick, of course. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 5 Jul 19 18:23   Obituary of a virtual friend. - CGNorwich

I reckon that PT cruiser of his would have been ideal for his final trip What can one say but TCHAH! Last edited by: CGNorwich on Fri 5 Jul 19 at 18:24 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Sat 6 Jul 19 20:52   Obituary of a virtual friend. - VxFan

>> He squirrelled posts in various places and then couldn't find them. I'm not convinced the >> cause was amnesia............ I was trying to be polite. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 6 Jul 19 21:34   Obituary of a virtual friend. - sooty123

>> >> He squirrelled posts in various places and then couldn't find them. I'm not convinced >> the >> >> cause was amnesia............ >> >> I was trying to be polite. >> Oh I don't know, he was right about it on a couple of occasions. Some posts did go walkies. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 6 Jul 19 18:14   Obituary of a virtual friend. - PeterS

Thanks for posting...sorry to hear, but not unexpected. What a life, and always an enlightening contributor. Localish to us in W Sussex too I recall. RIP Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 7 Jul 19 00:00   Obituary of a virtual friend. - hawkeye

RIP. Told an interesting tale or two. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 7 Jul 19 12:30   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Fenlander

Only just picked up on this thread. You all have sussed out now John was indeed that poster on here. A good few years ago he got in touch re a shared interest in the Nigerian political activist and musician Fela Kuti. It turned out during the period John was enjoying most (or all) of the delights on offer within Fela's Lagos compound my father was a contracts manager working for people on the other side of the political fence. Dad passed the compound most days looking at it and the surrounding activity with some horror. It was interesting to hear John's take on it all from the inside and a mark of his diverse character that he felt comfortable in an environment that would challenge many of us... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwM-PKUVNf8 I also loved his sometimes disparaging comments on the earliest performances of now super groups like Pink Floyd and the Stones... John was very much in the thick of it then with friends like Hoppy Hopkins who was one of the number one guys in the 60s London scene, I think John reported on Hoppy's funeral here a few years back. I do know Hoppy attended John's 75th birthday. So for once an internet character where all he said and so much more truly happened. I lost his email address after a PC meltdown and from time to time have Googled his name but never spotted the obituary so grateful to find it linked here. I reckon he saw more than many would in ten lifetimes and never regretted any of it. Last edited by: Fenlander on Sun 7 Jul 19 at 12:33 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 7 Jul 19 21:58   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Dave_

>> Only just picked up on this thread Likewise. Lud / AC / John was good to me, rest in peace Sir. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 13 Jul 19 13:57   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Westpig

Only just heard of this. AC e-mailed me over something or other and opened up a bit about his private life, enough for me to know we walked different paths in life at some points in our lives, yet he was non judgemental and was if anything interested to hear what the 'other side' thought. He was also kind enough to say he thought I ought to pursue some form of writing as a sort of career path or in amateur form. I didn't agree with him on that one. I liked his way: his bluntness; willingness to apologise if necessary; willingness to poke his stick into the wasps nest, then sit back and watch the result; his ability to look at another's viewpoint. Bottom line he was interesting, non conformist and willing to say what he thought. IMO we need more like him. Hope he didn't suffer too much. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Sat 13 Jul 19 14:31   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Duncan

Long time no see Westy. Reply to this message | Report message       2

New Sat 13 Jul 19 17:45   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Bromptonaut

Hi WP, How's things? I know you and I seem to view life through different prisms but I miss your posts in here. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Sat 13 Jul 19 21:33   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Westpig

>> I know you and I seem to view life through different prisms but I miss >> your posts in here. Same here Bromp. Kept me on my toes. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 13 Jul 19 21:34   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Westpig

>> Long time no see Westy. >> Aye, has been a while. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 13 Jul 19 21:49   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Robin O'Reliant

We've lost a few over the last year or so. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 13 Jul 19 22:58   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Lygonos

>>Hope he didn't suffer too much. Something tells me he'd not have had much difficulty asking for something for symptom relief! And as he didn't live a life constrained by fear I expect he left it the same way also. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Sun 14 Jul 19 10:14   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Westpig

>> Something tells me he'd not have had much difficulty asking for something for symptom relief! >> >> And as he didn't live a life constrained by fear I expect he left it >> the same way also. Hope so Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 15 Jul 19 10:21   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Fenlander

>>>Something tells me he'd not have had much difficulty asking for something for symptom relief! Ha ha… I liked this he wrote about attending his friend Hoppy Hopkins funeral back in 2015... "I had one large whisky (Hoppy wasn't a boozer) and a bit of rather good hash someone gave me that I had to go outside and smoke in the car. Herself noticed the pong when we were driving home after leaving the knees-up early around 7.30" Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 14 Jul 19 00:08   Obituary of a virtual friend. - Kevin

Although we crossed verbal swords on a few occassions, he was erudite and Westpig has it spot on. "I liked his way: his bluntness; willingness to apologise if necessary; willingness to poke his stick into the wasps nest, then sit back and watch the result; his ability to look at another's viewpoint. Bottom line he was interesting, non conformist and willing to say what he thought. IMO we need more like him." We also discovered that we had some common interests. We both experienced Africa in the 70's and had friends who were members of the Beat Generation. I've missed him. Reply to this message | Report message       1