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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 23:45 
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How is Mrs Owen getting on, does anyone know?


I was just coming in here to post the exact same question.


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:55 
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Rev Owen will live forever.

Kevin Smith is in the next Batman Lego game for instance - it's like there's always something constantly reminding me of the Rev and his all round awesomeness.

Stuff like the above makes me sad that he has missed it but then it makes me happy that he enjoyed so much in the time he was here.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:51 

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Trooper wrote:
Grim... wrote:
How is Mrs Owen getting on, does anyone know?


I was just coming in here to post the exact same question.


Just went to log in to Twitter on my work computer to see if I'm still following her.

Then remembered where I work and thought better of it.

Maybe someone else could have a quick look?


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:03 
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Mimi will be able to tell you more I'm sure.

I know she moved back to America pretty quickly to be with her family, and I think she got a teaching assistant job for a short time, but not sure what she's doing now.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:55 
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Shes on my Facebook, she doesn't write about personal stuff that often that I see but she seems to be OK. She's obviously still deeply sad about it, as are we all. I passed on Beex's regards and said we were thinking of her.


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:56 
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Just went to log in to Twitter on my work computer to see if I'm still following her.

Then remembered where I work and thought better of it.
Buhh. Seriously?


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:57 
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Buhh. Seriously?

Yeah, it's why you're no longer allowed to have an iPhone and I can't buy shitty Dell PCs.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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Yeah, it's why you're no longer allowed to have an iPhone and I can't buy shitty Dell PCs.
But I bought a new iPhone last week.


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
American Nervoso wrote:
Yeah, it's why you're no longer allowed to have an iPhone and I can't buy shitty Dell PCs.
But I bought a new iPhone last week.

:boots:

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:59 
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I wanted to de-clique your joke for you. You're welcome, by the way.


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 13:03 
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I wanted to de-clique your joke for you. You're welcome, by the way.

It's all I have left here.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
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Just went to log in to Twitter on my work computer to see if I'm still following her.

Then remembered where I work and thought better of it.
Buhh. Seriously?


No, it was a little joke.

That said, our office is getting too small for us, but the floor above is vacant and would be perfect. Sadly, it's owned by Twitter. And they've made it clear that even if M.Z. handed his bank card and PIN to them in exchange for it, they'd still sooner see it go empty.

(Or, as is the reality, sub-let it to another firm for *way* less than FB were offering.)


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 16:10 
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Get in there and vandalise it.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Shes on my Facebook, she doesn't write about personal stuff that often that I see but she seems to be OK. She's obviously still deeply sad about it, as are we all. I passed on Beex's regards and said we were thinking of her.


Good stuff, Doc. Hope she's okay.


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 16:50 
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That said, our office is getting too small for us, but the floor above is vacant and would be perfect. Sadly, it's owned by Twitter. And they've made it clear that even if M.Z. handed his bank card and PIN to them in exchange for it, they'd still sooner see it go empty.

Break in and spray paint graffiti insults all over the walls. And make sure they're longer than 140 characters, just to pour salt into their wounds.


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 18:13 
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hope she's ok.. sometimes you still find an owen reference somewhere.. on the xbox, here...

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 2:50 
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Was thinking about Owen so found this thread again. You may be gone but you'll never be forgotten.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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It's been five years since Owen passed away every time I play a batman game or watch a scifi movie I think he would have enjoyed that.

He loved mobile gaming so I'll be playing doodle jump today & trying to beat his high score.
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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:09 
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I have the Rev Owen Memorial Hat - the Cottage Quiz winners will take this home and I'm sure we'll raise a glass to him again this year.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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Rest in Peace, buddy.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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Lava spunking Batman will never forget, dude.

Still amazing.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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Miss you Batman, anyone know how Patience is getting on?


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:50 
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gospvg wrote:
Miss you Batman, anyone know how Patience is getting on?

Seems to be OK from her Facebook posts. She occasionally posts some heartrending stuff about Owen though :(


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:58 
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I do really wish she'd make his page a memorial page so Facebook would stop cheerfully telling me to help him "have a great day".

Still, I'm not sure it's a conversation I'd ever like to start.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:05 

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gospvg wrote:
Miss you Batman, anyone know how Patience is getting on?

Seems to be OK from her Facebook posts. She occasionally posts some heartrending stuff about Owen though :(


I hope she has found someone else to enjoy life with, you can never get over a loss of someone but finding someone who can give you some happiness helps.


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 14:47 
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Six years ago. :(


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 15:41 
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Although I never met him, Mimi and I often still talk about him and Patience, and I loved his Sea-Man diary.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 1:22 
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Hello folks,
Owen's brother here. Hope you don't mind me stopping by, I'm somewhat drunk and was just thinking about the man himself and remembered you lovely people. If anyone had any amusing anecdotes, stories or whatever about how cool he was I'd love to hear them. Alternatively, if anyone had any questions or anything about him I'd be happy to share, within reason.
Please don't feel obliged or anything, I was just thinking about him and wouldn't mind talking about him.
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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:59 
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He’s much missed by all of us here. He was a kind and caring person. I’ve moved around a lot and have very few possessions more than six years old because of a few turbulent moves, but one of the tiny number of things I still have from years ago is the Bert Barbie doll from Mary Poppins that Owen bought me because he knew how much I adore Dick Van Dyke. I didn’t know he’d bought it. It just arrived at my house one day, and is one if my very most treasured possessions.

I hope you’re doing ok and that your family all still take comfort in knowing that Owen was adored.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 10:52 
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He came up in my train of thought only yesterday as I was travelling to Leeds with the offspring in the car. She was playing Minecraft on her tablet and that got me onto remembering Owen's contribution to that thread and Minecraft in general and then onto Doom and how much I think he would have loved the latest Doom. I also thought of him recently when Sean Hughes died as it was a similar thing where somebody who I had never met but had a great affinity for Tweeted an innocuous sounding update and then they were gone.

Every time I come across an annoying boss in a game I take solace in the fact that Owen would have agreed with me on the general shitness of bosses.

Owen will always remain a part of my life because he talked so much sense and said it such a gentlemanly and warm fashion that even if he was saying something other people had said lots of times before the way *he* said it made it stick in my mind.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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And it's worth remembering the fact that at the annual quiz at the cottage there is always a glass raised to Owen, with the chance to win the Rev Owen Memorial Hat.

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Mr Russell wrote:
And it's worth remembering the fact that at the annual quiz at the cottage there is always a glass raised to Owen, with the chance to win the Rev Owen Memorial Hat.


Oh, deffo this.
But the Quiz is fixed, you know.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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Mr Russell wrote:
And it's worth remembering the fact that at the annual quiz at the cottage there is always a glass raised to Owen

And in the Beex drinking game, too.

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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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I've just been reminded via Twitter that this was 10 years ago today. We've missed the toast at the Cottage this year so perhaps we should dedicate tonight's quiz to him?


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 Post subject: Re: Rev Owen
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Quiz is an open invitation for anyone wanting to commemorate the anniversary. Would be nice to see a few extra faces


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