Rest in peace...

To a lady I never met.

As some of you may know, I'm a Leeds United fan, and a regular (and op) on #leeds on Undernet IRC. One of our other regulars there went by the /nick of Kampo, and was (in fact) an Arsenal fan, and a cheerfully friendly lady by the name of Jen. As a channel, we can get easily riled by fans of other teams who take delight in mocking us, but Jen was never such - always friendly, cheerful, willing to discuss Leeds and Arsenal's good and bad points, and cheer and moan with us (except, of course, when we played Arsenal).

I never knew she had cancer. I knew she was ill, as one of the channel ops asked folks to send her e-cards. I signed on today to the following topic:

--- Topic for #leeds is Kampo has passed away, a wonderful person, and a friend to everyone RIP Jen ( http://www.clockend.demon.co.uk/double.jpg )

Rest in peace, Jen. It was a pleasure to know you, if only virtually.

They're breeding spammers dumber....

Either that or the expected intelligence level of internet users is dropping like a stone...

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