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Zinka
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 Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:48 am Post subject: Just get up and eat something^.^ |
ED: SO The amazing DOOT found the site which syas this is fake!^.^
... | Quote: | | http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/starved.asp |
Well..this may go in the soapbox but my dad sent me this article from somewhere...he know's Im not like this I think he may have been trying to be funny...
it's funny in a way, but mostly very very sad.
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A WEST NYACK, N.Y. MAN was found dead at his computer apparently the
victim of trying to keep up with too many professional forums. Childress
H. Wanamaker, 54, an account executive at a New York-based new media
company, died of starvation according to the West Nyack coroner's office.
Wanamaker's emaciated body was found by Loraine, his wife of 26 years,
who told MediaPost she had been bringing her husband meals on plastic
trays for weeks, but that he never took the time to eat them.
"He was glued to his computer 24/7," she said tearfully. "He was so
afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment or
start a discussion, that he just stopped eating." She added that
Wanamaker's last words were "OK Picard, stick that in your pipe and smoke it..."
Computer forensic specialists from SUNY at Cortland discovered that
Wanamaker was subscribed to 48 different forums and networking communities
including one apparently having to do with the elderly called
"oldtimers" and another apparently limited to just 100 people. They also found
that he posted a comment into one forum or another on an average of two
per minute every hour of the day for the past seven weeks.
"He felt under terrible pressure to be part of the online community,"
said his son, Lucian, who says he tried several times to get his
father's attention and lure him away from the computer. "The only time he even
looked up was when I told him I had seen Dane Madsen trying to steal
his car out of the driveway."
Police found what appeared to be an organization chart taped to the
wall of Wanamaker's den with lines linking small photos of people unknown
to the police including a Tom Hespos and an Adam Boettiger. Neither is
considered a suspect in Wanamaker's death.
"Once, I thought I had him," said Lucian Wanamaker, "when I said that
mom had made cookies, but half out of his chair, he just sat back down
mumbling something about two Roman gods; I believe it was Jupiter and
Atlas having some sort of titanic battle. 'Let them eat PIE,' he bellowed
banging on his keyboard."
Computer forensic specialists reported that there was no order or
continuity to Wanamaker's forum postings. "It looks like he just sort of
randomly commented on whatever was in the discussion string at the time,"
said Stephen Hall, CUNY-Cortland adjunct professor of intemperate and
impulsive behavior. "He let nothing go by unchallenged by his own point
of view, nor failed to respond to any other community member asking for
advice or a new job. This consumed not only 24 hours a day, but also,
apparently, his physical health."
In what must be a record, Wanamaker was linked into to over 15,250
other community members, many of whom he exchanged notes with daily. He
also contributed to 375 blogs and was expected to start an online column
about the impact of interactive communications on health, when he died.
A virtual memorial service will be held online at a date to be
determined.
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Yeah....ITs rather disturbing, I cant imagine devoting that much of your life to your computer... |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:19 am Post subject: |
That's sad...and stupid. Even I know when I have had TOO much time on the computer. |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: |
Doot is teh supah net slueth. |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:51 am Post subject: |
I sincerely doubt that that's a true story. You can tell by the way that it's written. |
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Zinka
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject: |
ah well...that would explain it...my dad should probably check his refrences better^.^
I feel so silly now!
Thanks doot....  |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: |
Wj00t for Doot. X)!
Did anybody read the Harry Potter "turning kids to Satanism" article on that page? I thought it was funny and SAD that people actually believed it  !
I want to know if the "exploding bladder" story is true or not (not featured on the page, just something I heard over the internet). Supposedly this guy was playing WoW and hadn't used the bathroom in a REALLY long time, and his bladder literally exploded. Not, you know, BANG, but burst open inside of him.
I wonder if that really happened, or is it just an internet urban legend? |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:15 am Post subject: |
It's possible... highly unlikely but possible.
Wow,
Doot,
You are too much...
But Zinka, that article was awsome...
It made me smile. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:22 am Post subject: |
Yeah that would have to be fake, I seriously doubt a person could muster the will to over come the pain of starvation, which is one of the most agonizing ways to go, you know when your body starts cannibalizes it’s self and all that.
And any wife that would sit there without forcing him is just as bad.
But then it wouldn't exactly be a big hit to the human gene pool  |
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