malaise and pinboy3niner

[malaise]

This was a hilarious thread- he always stood up for his friends.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8114765

We both loved coffee. We PM'd. I knew his real name - he knew mine. One day we were going to meet as friends with shared interests.
His words

Funny, but I've always seen you as a good friend and ally on DU, long before knowing your real name. I hope we'll meet in person one day. I'd love that!

We never did meet but what sustains me now is that I did send him that bag of BMbeans for Christmas and he loved it.

Rest dear brother. I offer comfort and sympathy to his family, loved ones and friends.

[cwydro]

1. He was a true DU treasure.

I only knew him here, but it feels like I lost a friend.

[malaise]

2. We all lost a friend

[cwydro]

3. I was counting on him to keep me smiling...

for the time we have to endure with the orange scumball. Sigh.

I imagine there's a hell of a DU meetup going on wherever he is!

[sarge43]

6. Somewhere I'm sure he and MFM are having a cold one and trying to out pun one another.

We will remember and smile.

[cwydro]

12. Yes! And so many others.

Death sucks.

At least for those of us left behind.

[sheshe2]

4. That was a great thread malaise.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Nice Post, Malaise!

Good on you.

[malaise]

8. Adding this

nice pics and video on sheshe's thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028979583#post40

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Saw That Thread

You're right. Nice pics there.

[Raster]

7. wonderful tribute to your friend...

...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. How lucky for you both to be friends, to be that close!

These are the rarest of the rare. I had one like that too, and it changed my life.

What are the odds that we would encounter such a soul on the internet? Slim to none and yet it happens. Everyone benefits.

But when death takes our friend away, especially prematurely, then the grief can be overwhelming.

Thank you for your wonderful post, my dear malaise...

[malaise]

10. That's what I was saying last night

To think that we never met - he had the character of a Jimmy Carter - watch that video that he gave countryjake (on Sheshe2's thread) You'll cry.

[countryjake]

20. Here's yet another pic of him, from that video...

I finally found the strength this afternoon to make it thru listening to find him toward the end of it...I knew he was pictured during the Rainbow song, but all three of those tunes are so heart wrenching to hear now.

DU needs a collective hug Pinboy was the best of us.


Love ya, malaise

[malaise]

21. Love you back countryjake

I cried watching the video - building the home was lovely to watch but the music was so hard to hear at this time.
He was a bridge over troubled water. :

[tblue37]

24. Yours was MFM, if I remember correctly. Another huge loss for DU. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. We were lucky to know one another. We had so much fun!

Thanks to Kali--she got him to sign on to DU and the rest was history.

I've lost one other close friend here--WCGreen. It was an amazing friendship.

[tblue37]

28. Oh, yes, I remember what you went through as WCGreen was fading. That was a truly

heart wrenching time.

I joined in the summer of 2004. Kephra and Andy both died not long after I became aware of the work they did and how valuable their contributions were. Even after such a short time on DU I felt their deaths as a blow, despite never having had personal interaction with either of them.

I knew pinboy only from his wonderfully clever puns. He could always come up with her another one, even when it seemed nothing more could be done with the material at hand.

Language and literature are my specialty, so I spotted his clever wordplay almost immediately, and I always delighted in his posts. Other than exchanging puns with him on occasion, I did not personally interact with him on DU, but when I saw the first post announcing his death, I felt gobsmacked. I still can't quite believe he is gone.

[malaise]

31. I remember him well

He loved Marley

[malaise]

47. Please check countryjake's posts on this thread

There's a wonderful response to you in Pinboy's When I Die thread and WCGreen started the other thread back in 2012

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. Thank you, my dear malaise...

I'd forgotten those old threads. And they were treasures.

[irisblue]

11. I am happy you had such a good friend

And I am sorry you lost him.

[H2O Man]

13. Recommended.

What is important is that you two connected. And we don't often really connect with the people we meet in person.

[malaise]

17. Isn't that the truth and we were so many miles

and even cultures apart

[Hekate]

14. Hugs

[ananda]

16. Sweet story

Thanks

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. I loved him too. This is just such a shock.

Hard to believe. 😪💔

[malaise]

19. Not really a shock - just confirmation of our worst fears

When he didn't post on a coffee thread, I had a feeling something was wrong. Then when he didn't respond to the shout out and folks especially denbot tried to make contact, some of us were really worried. And then we got the bad news.

[Omaha Steve]

22. Last email I got from pinboy3niner was Feb 3

[malaise]

23. Treasure it

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Kick and Rec.

[malaise]

48. Check out When I die in Countryjake's post 43 and 45

[A-Schwarzenegger]

27. Just seeing his name made me feel happy.

There's some saying about something like "They won't remember what you said, they wont remember what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel."

[malaise]

29. He sure made us feel happy and laugh

but it had a lot to do with how he said it (wrote it)and there are many who will remember what he did - he worked super hard with Vets and young folks helping vets. So he may well be remembered for all three.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

32. of course, i just meant i was always happy when i saw

that he had replied to me

[malaise]

34. Cool

So was I

[duhneece]

30. He would post on DU for my campaign

...and he got results. You should have heard me tell my Treasurer and Campaign Manager about the contributions that poured in after he posted for me. They couldn't get over his success and the generosity of DU...and he planned to come out and walk & knock (canvass) for me. Now, I imagine he was diagnosed about that time, but wouldn't tell me. He continued to post for me and passed on great enthusiasm that lifted me up when I was down. God, I loved that man.

[malaise]

33. Wouldn't tell anyone

said he was slowing down but nothing more- never gave me a hint that he was seriously ill.
He was a good man in every sense of that word.

[duhneece]

35. While he said he couldn't come to NM after all...

he let me know he wanted to but 'something came up.'
A gentleman, but he didn't give us a chance to surround him...I wish I'd known and could have gone out there.

[malaise]

37. Some folks hate attention - privacy matters even in dying - I get it

Something did come up and it was serious. Now we celebrate his life.

[duhneece]

38. Agreed, but I just spent 4 days & nights

...with another Vietnam vet, brown navy, as he lay dying and he told me over & over again that he's glad he didn't have to die alone. Maybe I'm just raw.

[malaise]

39. You're a good person

[spanone]

36. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[malaise]

40. Look what I found

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027330925#post2

Where is hobbit709 these days?add

and this one
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028417161#post8

[spanone]

41. that's great!

no sign of hobbit709 ....

https://www.google.com/search?q=hobbit709&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com#q=hobbit709+site:democraticunderground.com

[malaise]

42. He hasn't posted in ages

Wonder if anyone is in touch with him

[countryjake]

45. So many just quietly slip away...

leaving none of us the wiser, yet wondering. I hate that.

[malaise]

46. This hit me way more now than then -On a serious note, I hope that an announcement about my death

would be posted on DU

[countryjake]

50. I'll be one who simply disappears...

my man hasn't a clue about passwords on the innertubes, besides, we're both pretty sure that he's gonna be the one who drops first, now.

I only hope that our cats won't have to eat me before I'm found, ha!

[malaise]

51. Same here

and there will be no funeral. My ashes will be thrown in the Caribbean Sea as payback to the fish (in particular yellow tail snapper)

[countryjake]

43. The day I heard pinboy was gone, here is where I went

immediately, one of the many threads I'd bookmarked previously for outstanding reminiscence:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1911231

His own posts on that thread are magnificent, heartwrenching, and poignant, so I rocked out first to every one of the songs he'd put up, then moved on to everyone else's...note the others on there who are also no longer with us... and ended up just listening to John Fogerty til the wee hours.


This one right here gives me goosebumps to read now:

When I die... posted by pinboy3niner

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027188806

[malaise]

44. Just reread When I die

I loved that thread

Let me read your other link now

[joshcryer]

52. I log into DU only every week or so, and missed this news, I'm so saddened to hear this.

He was a great friend of mine during the Libyan Revolution, helping regularly update about what was really happening there, as opposed to the mindless Russian propaganda that filled the forums. Now we see that Russia has such good psyops throughout the internet that they elected a meme president and are well on the way toward creating a mess in the EU sphere.

It is heartbreaking for me right now to hear this news. Won't post or read again for weeks.

[malaise]

53. Yep pinboy3niner's death hit me very hard

That's for letting us know you'll be missing