What? What? Is Chickenman Eric?



What?!

Eh...what?!

First off, being that this is Gab I must say that if this is some sort of joke, it's not funny.



Now that that's out of the way...



I don't think it's a joke. I'm very sorry to hear this. Eric (Chicken Man) was a good guy and a funny Gabber. Sorry for your loss and my thoughts are with you and your family.



Thank you for letting us know.

I can't find what Chickenman used as a name most recently. The ---D part was added today.



If this is true, I'm terribly sorry. I hope it's just a very bad joke. I really do.

I'd rather be mad at him then have him gone.

Does anyone know anything personal about Chickenman that we can use to verify this?



Like his real name or where he was from?

Moon could be doing this. Remember how he did that with Crickette?

We just mentioned that in my robot thread. I've no idea. I was thinking he lived in North or South Carolina, but am not sure.



With whom did he email communicate here? Did the wife send notices to the email address book list?

If only codeslave were here.



He could verify the poster.

One of the voices is gone. They're not supposed to die. They are just voices, aren't they? We are all nothing but a gathering of whispers, until one is extinguished. Then maybe, for a time, we see there is much more.



This is a sad day.

Yimmy...AIM....pronto

20Chickens' put in "Eric" as his real name in his profile, and the IP address is the same as his last post, 2001-10-25 5:15 pm.



I hope you are riding your Harley somewhere nice, Mr Goatherd.

Timon, thatnk you for the verification. We really appreciate your help.



Chickenman, you will be missed.

Stupid AIM just disconnected me again

Questions:



Did Chickens post primarily from work? If so, that would mean his wife is posting this from work, if the IP address is the same.



I tend to believe this is true, but given the nature of this place I'd like to be sure just so we don't all look like idiots.

Codeslave said the IP was the same as his last post, which was Friday at 5:15 when he would have likely been home

Okay. This totally sucks.



My thoughts and prayers go out to Chickens' family. This is a very sad day for Gab.

If this is a joke, please come clean because I'm really upset.

I'd like to point out that if someone could fake post as chickens, they could probably fake post as codeslave, too.

I don't think it's a joke.

5:15pm Eastern is my 4:15 Central....where did he live?

I don't know if it's a joke or not, but I'd like to be as sure as possible.

I think one of the Carolinas

Oh god, if this is a joke, I'm going to start crying for nothing.

If it's not, I am devastated.

He used too many damn names, he's too hard to search for.



Is there any way to search for postswhere the author's name contains "chickens"?

I also am very upset. Chickens (as Goatherd) was one of the reasons I got sucked into all this madness. My very first post on Laura's board was flaming him for something stupid he said.

This is just a ploy by the widow to increase her rank.

Squeamish, I tried "Chickens" "20Chickens" and "20 Chickens" didn't he have "with a tool....or only one tool" on the end lately?

I think the last name he used was 20Chickens-there can be only one(tool). But I don't think I have the spacing right, as I searched for that name and came up empty.

I hope it's not true.



If his last post was on Friday afternoon, his wife reports that he was in the accident early Friday morning. Can we get some confirmation?



I have his address at home, but not his last name.

SCab, his last posts was on the 25th, Thursday.

His last post was Thursday at 5:15



I figure it's either true or else Mr. Chickens wants to leave this place and figured this would be a good way.



Either way, he's dead.

Also, SCab, in which state did he live?

"20Chickens-there can be only one (tool)"



That's how he posted in the announcement thread.

Last post showed as Thursday.



I think the last name he was using was 20Chickens - there can be only one(tool)

Maybe the skills I've developed as a stalker can finally be put to good use.

Well, this certainly Frost-ing SUCKS. Even though I didn't know him personally or anything, I send my condolances out to his family.



I don't like to hear about people dying......... *sniff*

Goatherd's posts:

mercury.nationwide.com: 1988 posts

uranus.nationwide.com: 2078 posts (including last & today's post)

and a handful of other IPs.

He lived near the Biltmore House





What state is that?

Find the fight club thread.



He revived it several times. It may show more of the names he used.



The thread he started 9/11/01 may give some information on where he was by giving the news source he was using.

It should have been Squeamish who died.

</Squeamish>

Okay, my mistake. I was hoping it wasn't.



Bonks, I have his address at home, printed on a box. I'm at work. I don't even know if I have the box any longer, HeCab may have thrown it out.



I don't think I'm going to eat the honey bear he sent me, I'll just keep it on my monitor forever.

Ford just IM'd me and said codeslave's post dfinitely wasn't an imp.

It should have been Squeamish who died.

</Nutbutter>

Te Biltmore House is near Asheville, NC.

All I can say is Damn damn damn. I'm really upset. I have no tangible reason to be, but I'm very sorry for Mrs. Chickenman.

I do know of widowhood. Don't ask.

Not me.

This is the second message board on which I've posted where a key poster died in a car accident.



btw, I closed the loophole that allowed imp posts on Thursday, when you were all forced to relogin.

Holy Frost. Here I thought *I* would be the first to go.



Man. Um. Bye 20Chix.



I'm going to go barf now.

Out of curiousity, who was the first one, Codeslave?



Today has been one Shakespearety day thus far.

I can't find an obituary of anyone with the first name Eric in the Asheville, Knoxville, or Greenville papers.

Or Charlotte

Obituaries are often an afterthought. I've seen a lot of obits run a week or more after the death.

Not everybody posts obituaries. There was a similar kind of turnout for my brother's funeral, in which the funeral home & the cemetery were both crowded. & there was no obituary in the paper.

If papers around the country are anything like my local one here, police reports and obituaries generally run about two to three issues later. It might be too soon.

The obit is usually handled by the funeral home as part of their basic services.

Out of curiousity, who was the first one, Codeslave?





Jay Stevens, Towards the end of Computer Stew.

Local papers or hospitals might be able to help with 411.



If someone has his real email address they should contact it to get a confirm from the widow. She might be monitoring it to let online chums know.

Codeslave,



Since 20 Chickens was the only GABber to "earn" a tool icon (through persistant manipulation); would you consider retiring the icon?

Chickens, you'll be missed.

Jay Stevens, Towards the end of Computer Stew



wow.. the joke I started bombed during computer stew, yet, it is remembered like 50 years after it was cancelled.

Y'know not to be a doubter or suspicious or anything but it strikes me as odd that the widow 20 Chickens would know to adjust his user name with the "-d" thing. Maybe I'm paranoid but I suspect shenanigans.

It's quite a thing to come to GAB to laugh and see this post. My humor is now gone.



I'm sorry about your loss.

I think I've seen the "---D" before.



Maybe a home account and a work account?



Jay Stevens' Death is like Fdisk. A bad joke that will never go away.

i saw the "---D" a couple days ago on the end of chickens' handle. today wasn't the first time.



i hope to hell this isn't true, but after seeing so many people attempt pranks around here like this only to find out they're false, this in comparison seems to have an air of legitimacy that the others didn't.



chickens, mrs. chickens, and chickens' family, i offer my sincerest condolensces.



gab - chickens = sad.

Horrid, heartbreaking, if true.



Bannable, if not.



Death has been too casually mentioned on GAB.



I certainly did not/do not agree with his politics, but he was/is bright anf funny, and if true, I'll miss him.



"Parting is all we Know of Heaven--

And All We need of Hell."

Emily Dickinson.

"Only the good die young..."



Bruce Dickenson

His real firt name is Eric- I remember that he won a gardening essay contest, and he posted his winning essay here on GAB. Wish I could remember the thread, and if the linkie is still valid- that would be a key to finding out.

I dunno, my Spidey senses are tingling... something just ain't right at the Walton's.

<a href="http://www.codeslave.com/board/index.cgi?func=view_thread&thread_id=1862>Here is the thread about the essay contest.</a> Looks like his link isn't working, though.

Piss!

Thank you for trying, Vicar



I got an error message saying that Smith and Hawken was too busy.

Goodbye Chickens. You will be missed.



If this is a trick, you stole my gag.

I got to smith and hawken, but that link is no longer valid and I couldn't find essays.

Just an idea off the top of my head. Ideas off the top of one's head are often small and flaky.

If this is true, I'm very very sorry for your loss. He was a really nice guy.





If it's a joke, it's sick.



He is/was from Asheville, NC. But I can't find anything about an accident or an obit in the Asheville paper online.. but that doesn't really mean anything.

I dislike cars more and more latley. I just might start looking for an alternate transportation method.





Later Chickens.

Um. Ouch.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss, Mrs. Chickens. He seemed like a nice guy.

Holy tri-mul-post, Batman.



In re: alt transport... yeah. I know what you mean. I bike walk and take the subway/commuter rail/buses, but I live in a Nurba Narea so I'm lucky thataway... when you live in the boonies like Mr. Chickens I guess you have a harder time finding such things. Plus it's not like biking is real safe either (commuter cyclists have better accident stats than cars but still, if someone runs a red light and hits you, there's nothing you can do to avoid it)...



very sad.

I was waiting for the bus today and I saw a woman either fall out of a car or get hit by a car--I couldn't tell from the angle I was standing at. She was ok though--just got up and limped up to the car that she fell out of/was hit by.



And the other day I was on a double-decker bus that ran into a ladder on a tall maintenance truck. The ladder went through the top front window of the upper deck. Fortunately nobody was sitting in that particular seat.

My condolences to the Chickens family.



I had been considering getting rid of the useful and informative ratings anyway ... now it seems sadly appropriate.

Maybe you could replace the "useful" rating with an "alive" rating?

Shut up Squeamish.

What Crickette said.

Yeah, you bastard. Cool it!



</jumping on bandwagon>

How about a laugh out loud rating? Break it down to:



Made me smile

Made me chuckle

Made me laugh outloud

Made me pee myself



That way both quantity and quality may be tracked.

You know, it's kind of weird, because I was looking at Mr. Chickens' picture this weekend and thinking that he looked like a pretty nice guy. I'm very sorry for your loss, Mrs. Eric. I will pray for your family.

So long, Chickens. Godspeed on your journey.



Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. -- Rabindranath Tagore

Mr. Vicar, when I go will you kindly do a parody of the Dead Parrot sketch? "This is an ex-GABber!"



Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. -- W. Somerset Maugham

something more needs to be done in remembrance of eric than retiring the tool.



perhaps a day of no posting in his honour. or john post a tribute in his journal. chickens was an important part of the board and even though few of us knew him off the board, i feel we need to pay our respects as a community he was involved with.

I doubt any of you will even know when I go. Maybe FD will let you know I croaked. I hope that you will all say something bad about me after I'm gone.

We could retire his icon.

Heck, we can say something bad about you right now.

Maybe Al could draw a 20 chickens icon or something?

It wouldn't be the same, Jim.

It's pretty sad that we're so conditioned by this place that we can't accept this without a bit of skepticism. A 'joke' like this is even beyond my own sense of poor taste so I can't imagine anyone else doing it.

I am most certain he would want us to remember him as Useful. And not to mope.



I know I wouldn't want your gloomy faces drooling back to your monitors trying to think of something to say.



I say Party. Release the chickens! Live!!



I also say retire the icon in memory.

I don't think we should stop posting. Chickens wouldn't want us to.



Lets just all say nice things about him. Maybe Candie Khorne could put some sort of memorial in the photo album.

A memorial page would be nice. Maybe this Friday morning we can take a few minutes to pay our respects as a group somehow.

a thread where we say nice stuff about him, talk about the funny stuff he did, pay our respects, and that could get turned into a memorial page of sorts?



sounds good to me.

GABbers say nice things about each other?

Only after one of us dies.

Unfortunately it's usually the wrong one.

my $20 goes on 'bullShakespeare'.





but i suppose time will tell.





it's just that simple.(tm)

chickens didn't live near Charlotte, he lived in Asheville. Which is a hell of a commute to Charlotte.

I called and hit 0 to get the operator.



I asked for Eric and she said "which one." I said I didn't know. "What is this regarding?" "Peronsal."



Then she transferred me to a voice mail that said "This is Eric, I'll be out of the office Monday, October 27th and Tuesday, October 28th." He had the dates screwed up, I'm quoting him.

Here is a local newspaper. No obits yet for anyone named Eric. Maybe it will take a day or two.



Certainly someone knew his last name. Did he sign on for the secret santa?

You should have asked for Eric 20Chickens.



duh.

Things like this really make you think.





Better him than me.

This is the only email address I have for him: goatherd2@email.com



Did anyone besides SheCabbage get some honey from him?

Did anyone talk off-board with him, at all??

I don't think that I can picture Mrs. Dork calling me a great provider.

Well maybe in the crabs department.

Um, I know I'm new, and it might not mean much, but I also send my condolenses.

Squeamish made me laugh.



And now I'm going to pretend I never read this thread.

My death would be the only way Nutbutter would even consider saying anything nice about me.



Even then, I'm fairly certain he wouldn't.

If this is actually true (and I'm always skeptical because in the 6 years I've been online, I've seen this sort of thing 5 other times and only once was it true), I very sorry to hear it and send my condolences to his wife and family.



In his honor, I shall have oral sex with my husband tonight.

Boy, those twelve steps to dynamic health really paid off.



er.



sorry.

Is it to soon to offer to "console" the widow?

Does this mean that we all move up one rank?

Not me.

Moon and I discussed the possibility of faking our deaths on GAB one time.

Uh Donkey that was fake?



Fooled my ass.

Damn. Damn. Damn.



GABbers arent supposed to die. Especially not the good guys.



Mr poultryman, may the sun always shine on you and your Harley.



Mrs Chickens, Dawn, my thoughts and prayers are with you.

We may be a virtual community, but the loss is real. My condolences, thoughts, and prayers go out to the family.

If this is real, it's a sad day for those of you that were close to him. Somber for the rest of us.



If it's a buzzkill, it's the best one ever.

Goddamn. I really liked Eric a lot. If anyone can find that movie he did of his kid goat in the kitchen, and anything else like that from or by him, I'll put together a memorial page ASAP. The email he gave at the end of Computer Stew, for the contact list, is goatherd@zdnetonebox.com .

PS, that's the email address from which he sent his photos for the album.

I still say we get John to retire the alien icon in his honor.

bummer. he made me laugh all the time.



<re-lurk>

Hi Dinesh. Where the hell you been?

Dudes, I am devastasted. This sucks major ass.



Furthermore, the only persons death who I would fake is my own. I wouldn't find it funny otherwise.

Oh and I guess I'll take him out of Secret Santa.

Alright, I've been extra busy at work today and this is the first time I've seen this thread since this morning.

I haven't seen any proof otherwise as to this being false.

This really has ruined my day.

There's nothing like starting your Monday sleepy and teary-eyed.



I keep remembering that thread he started a short while ago about almost getting killed on his tractor and we all picked on him for driving a tractor. I'll remember that story fondly now.



Chickens, you were such a sweetheart. I will miss you very much. You were a great person and one of the smartest, funniest people here.

God, no, I'm crying again. I need to stop.



Anyway, this is a big deal to me and I'm a bit upset.

No, I'm a LOT upset. I can't accept this. This isn't supposed to happen to good people and not at such a young age.

This will be the first time we've lost one of our own.

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou'art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,

And poppy'or charms can make us sleep as well

And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.



For those who don't know - John Donne, "Death be not proud".

i got yer tractor right here baby!

Oh Shakespeare.



I really did not expect something like this to happen to a gabber.



Being more along the lines of an evening gabber, I tend to not hear much about things until I catch up on the threads. Now after reading this, I really don't know what to say about it either.



I liked 20Chickens, he was a great guy with interesting stories.



I will miss him.

This is a sad day for gab. I wish he had sent his home address to me for Santa so I could send a card.

rest well, friend.

I will, thanks!

I know all your life you wonder

About that step we all take alone

How far does the spirit travel on the journey?



You must surely be near heaven, and it thrills me to the bone



To know [Chicken] knows the great unknown.

shut up, kiosk boy.

At first I thought, why is this bothering me so much? Then I realized I know some of you better then some of my real life friends. I am afraid that it is time for a mike moon proclamation:



YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DIE!



except Dead Robot, cuz thats a given.

I'll die if I want to, and there's nothing you can do about it.

this is all bullShakespeare, you people are all gonna owe me a twenty, see?

This sucks. I was just thinking a few days ago about how I'd react if one of you guys died. I can't really mourn for Eric because I didn't know him that well, but I think the idea of retiring the tool (and naming him the permanent Useful Gabber forever) is a good one. He seemed so proud of it. =)



We could also change the color of the ZUG board to black for awhile.

I think you should us a two boob salute...for eric...

SHOW US

Good call, Moon. Chickens always was wanting to see boobies.



I say for the greater good, all GABbettes show their boobies.



Especially Audrey.

Boobies

All my prayers to Eric and his family. Still being somewhat new [to GAB], I haven't shared some of the moments with Mr. Chickens that others have, but this is still a tremendous loss.

....

This is how much Eric liked boobies.



I never mentioned this on GAB because I decided not to post it, but he did a decent Photoshop job of putting my headless boob photo together with one of my face photos, so there was the whole deal. I didn't really want to have that on the internet, but I praised him for the quality of his work. He even put in a colorful little background.



I wish I knew where that file was now.

Frost. I remember him telling stories of getting sucked off by debutantes in his early years, always good for a laugh. While I didn't talk to him outside of GAB, I'm still gonna miss the big lug.



Later on, Chickens.

Well.







If anyone was going to die on the road you all would have thought it'd be good ol' Tavis.







In memory and honor of the Chicken man I hereby promise to drive the speed limit for one full week. Including my drive north to Berkeley on Friday next.

Kill a couple of protesters while you're there.

I salute you, mr. chickens!

He was certainly one of the more cerebral Gabbers...funny. I don't think he would be one to pull a prank of this nature.

I just ran out to Target at 9:30 tonight to grab some snack foods for work and some Iams for the Pug Dog (changing him to the all-natural food as soon as I move to SF).



Driving 45 on the surface streets is painful. Torture.

Something like that should be against the law, Tavis.

In leiu of recent events, I may retire my General Tsang's Chicken persona out of respect for 20 chickens. My prayers go out to you and yours.

Thank God! Something positive from this tragedy.



Thanks Maha.

In the immortal words of Socretes,



SHUT THE Frost UP!!!

No, no, no...wait....



You're making my pee my pants. That was good.



Do it again.

Pee your pants from laughing? Being scared by my meaty words?

Lack of bladder control?

Enjoyment of the warm sensation?

All of the above?

Guess what, Dawn, he emailed that boobie shot to several of us.



It was pretty good, too.

Cerebral my ass. He was an idiot. Just because he's dead doesn't make him smart.

And now that he's alive, I can get back to skipping over his posts.

Yeah! And we can all talk about me again too!

he he he.



i was on vacation in gaspe when this happened.



good for you, chickens. i too offer my condolences to your widow.

Up from the grave sprang this thread!

Is someone looking for a little attention today?

I just love your little fantansy, where your wife isn't dancing around the kitchen table with you life insurance check, and has your remains dumped in the wood chopper for chicken feed. Big funeral, standing room only, missed greatly. BWA HA HA HA.

I must have missed something... Chickens Died??

Yeah, back in Oct. Long before Ford was banned.

Ford was banned?????

Yes not too long after we discovered the Kenshin was a real live person.

Now, THAT"S the scariest thing alive!

I say in honor of the one year anniversary of my death, let's take a one minute moment of silence. No one post for one minute. go.

You know, are little community here has grown quite large. It is a little surprizing that we haven't have to deal with the death of a member. How do you think we'd handle it ?

I am not scheduled to die for another 48 years.

Can we expect this to be a yearly thing?

I'm hoping the "condolences" I got to give to the widow the last time he left town are a yearly thing.

She's not. The rash took three visits to the free clinic to take care of.

""

I'm thinking nobody will believe it if someone croaks here.

*Long sigh... no real way to do emotions justice sometimes*

Well, Here's to the nights we felt alive... (raising a glass in Goatherd's honor...)

Bump...

...dead guy

Today is my two year Gab anniversary.

holy Shakespeare, chickens is dead?

Happy Fifteen Second Anniversary to this thread's Two Year Anniversary!! Cake and cookies for everyme!

That's why I can't just put Eric for my log in name awwwwww thanks bud! And Happy Birthday Mavis!!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY woohoo!!! one day I will achieve this too

so is/isnt eric dead? i still dont know

You owe me some tit pics. You know who you are.

Damn you, Damn you, Mooks for reviving this horrible thread.

Dude, if someone really did die... how would we know? I think we should all ask a trusted friends to inform Gab if we do die. Or put it in our will or something.

Yeah, i'll get right on that one Neep...

The best part about this thread was Ford Prefect, P.I.

lol

All last week I was searching for this thread and after I finally spent hours searching for it, someone bumps it.

Good work, someone.

Chickens is dead?!?!?!?11

The one I had for lunch was.

I prefer to eat them live.

What a sick, mean, bastard.

I'm sorry! I was kidding! I don't really like chicken!

This was great.



The best prank ever.

Chickens is Dead?????

Yep.



After 4 years, the true prank can finally be revealed: Chickens DID die in that crash, and it's been his wife who has been posting since then.



Which expains why so many people have wondered if he was gay.

Thanks for the orbs, Mrs. Chickens.

It was me. You are amusing me more than ever lately.

<action>fans himself</action>

fekkin funny BUMP!!!!11!!1!!

This thread sux.

so it's gonna be 6 years in a few weeks eh?

Six years? Sheesh, that's a long time to be the un-dead.

*Clank* Bring out your dead! *Clank*

But I'm not dead yet!

"...bawk bawk bawk...a-bawk bawk bawk...bawk bawk waka bawk-a bawk bawk bawk...

Thank you Stoopid Monkey...!

Well if this one was resurrected, where's the "big reveal" one that he started when he decided we hada mourned long enough? I forgot what it was called.