RIP BratPrinc 1946 To Tuesday April 27th 2004

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<BratPrinc> a friend of BratPrince here - anyone here know him - I have important new to relay
<Jamminvk> news about Brat?
<xyzzy> what's the BratNews?
<BratPrinc> yes - I sorry to say that BratPrinc passed away on Tuesday - I wanted to pass this along because I knew he enjoyed chatting with you all.
<Jamminvk> whoa!
<barry> eh?
<xyzzy> i'm very sorry to hear that - we all enjoyed chatting with him too
<BratPrinc> please pass this on - I will be shutting down his computer (hard to do, you know)
<kd> shame if true that
<barry> what happened
<xyzzy> thank you for letting us know
<BratPrinc> BP (Allen) was dx with cancer early March and decided not to persue tx - gave him a nice Veteran's burial yesterday in Crownsville, MD
<Nelluk> how old was he?
* SacMerv sets mode: +o xyzzy
* xyzzy changes topic to 'RIP BratPrinc'
<BratPrinc> BP was 58 y.o.
<Nelluk> Did he have a wife, children? he didn't reveal much personal information, but everyone liked him
<BratPrinc> I'm not surprised that BP didn't offer any personal info.  I am his partner.  We were together 20 years.
<Nelluk> im very sorry
<Tobeyy> thats a shock. I didn't know the guy, but he was online for a long time.......
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<Tobeyy> I'm going to drink for Mr. BratPrinc
<BratPrinc> He was on home hospice from April 2 to April 27 - a character to the end
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<aaaaFord> hello :-)
<aaaaFord> anyone around?
<xyzzy> we're here, but in mourning
<aaaaFord> ah i see
<Nelluk> i very much admired his sense of humor
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<BratPrinc> I couldn't turn off his computer until he was gone.  
<BratPrinc> I'd hear him typing away in the middle of the night chatting to you all.
<eap> is this serious? ... wow
<eap> aren't you near Baltimore?
<BratPrinc> We live in Cockeysville, about 10 miles north of Baltimore.
<eap> Yeah... I moved out here in September.
<eap> He suggested a few places to try.
<eap> Like Cafe Hon, near my house.
<BratPrinc> thanks xyzzy.  Everyone - feel free to email me at kwalkmd@hotmail.com.  I think I have a photo of him on my computer.
<xyzzy> i'd like to see a photo of him - he was always so secretive and never shared one with us
<eap> indeed
<BratPrinc> Luckily he left the chat screen up - one of my last tributes to him
<ilsa> bratty!
<Jamminvk> ilsa, no
<eap> yes...
<ilsa> no
<xyzzy> read back, ilsa
<Jamminvk> i'll miss his "going to flea" stories
<Lint> yeah
<Jamminvk> and armadillos
<ilsa> beanie babies
<Jamminvk> and his gazillion printers
<BratPrinc> xyzzy - BP told me once he had an IQ of 160 - he was very intelligent
<BratPrinc> his room looks like a computer store
<xyzzy> yeah, i realize he was
<BratPrinc> gazillion monitors and old apple CPU's!!
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<xyzzy> feel free to come here and chat with us anytime
<ilsa> ow, i feel like i've lost a dear friend -- despite the whole never having met thing
<shagoth> Gah. This is awful.
<BratPrinc> xyzzy - I would but I'm woefully lacking in ircle skills
<BratPrinc> BP was buried with an amardillo, a platpus and an anteater (his new found interest!!)
* shagoth raises an eyebrow.
<Nelluk> Yeah he always talked about armadillos and platypusses.. i didnt know if he kept real ones as pets or just liked collecting things with their likeness
<eap> Nelluk, we'll have to carry on the tradition of calling you a twit.  He would want that :)
<Jamminvk> oooh, indeed
<Nelluk> yeah, i was BratPrinc's punching bag :)
<shagoth> What conflict was he a veteran of?
<BratPrinc> funny story - when hospice came in they were expecting platpuses running around the place and I thought, no wonder they sent a social worker - she probably expected the place to be a 
  mess!
<ilsa> heh, the idea that there would be live platypuses running around is an amusing image all by itself
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<mtreal> indeed ilsa
<DanB_> who is bratprinc
<mtreal> was an op DanB_
<BratPrinc> shagoth - he served during the Vietnam war but was stationed in Okinawa (sp?)  lived in SF playing the part of a flower child for a while!
<BratPrinc> he always found something at the flea markets - and our place reflects that!  Wasn't happy until he found something to buy.
<shagoth> It's so weird, knowing somebody for a decade and only fleshing out the pieces after he's gone.
<mtreal> i knew brat since AOL
<BratPrinc> mtreal - WOW, that's been a while back!
<mtreal> yup yup. ages and ages ago.
<BratPrinc> BP's first computer was a Kaypro - back in '84.
* xyzzy vaguely remembers those
<BratPrinc> Kaypro's only had 5K memory.
<shagoth> KayPros were technically portable
<ilsa> under the "it has a handle" definition
<RedNivek> ahh sorry to hear it, but glad he was spirited thru it
<eap> BratPrinc on google returns quite a bit
<BratPrinc> I'll be signing off now - thanks for chatting.  Thanks for remembering BP (Allen) with me.  Again, email me at kwalkmd@hotmail.com if you'd like.
<xyzzy> take care
<Nelluk> thank you for telling us
<ilsa>  <speechless>
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