Goodbye Legless
Sorry to share this news - from the email: "Hi B3ta. Bit of sad news, Joe Thompson aka Legless passed away last week. Thought you might want to post something, better coming from you instead of some random lurker. The funeral will be webcast. Whack it in /links for a suitably tasteless send off :)" The team at B3ta send their respects to Mrs Legless and their daughter.
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rob, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 10:09,
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Ah sorry to hear that
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 11:50,
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Devastated.
Post B3ta he contacted me via Twitter (Fesshole) when he found out I was ill. We kept in contact right up until this March when we were both on the mend. His last message to me was more concerned about me than himself. He was a great on B3ta, and on Facebook but most of all as a family man, as a mate and as a bloke in general. He will be greatly missed.
Cheers Joe.
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Mon 28 Oct 2024, 12:47,
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Oh no.
Sifting through the week's answers was a lovely job mostly, but it was always a joy when you saw a reply from Legless as you knew it would be awesome. Sure, it'd take a while to edit it down to size for the newsletter, but that was the fun part.
I will miss his humour and life experience and his inevitable sign-off.
He will forever remain,
Legless
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chthonic, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 13:07,
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RIP Joe/Legless
always loved his QOTW replies. Much love to Mrs Legless and their daughter.
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Dusting off the cobwebs to say how sorry I was to hear about this
RIP Legless the Legend
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rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 14:02,
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Sad news
A chance meeting in a pub, probably almost 20 years ago now, led to many amiable weekends in his company until he emigrated to Oz.
RIP Joe. Another good one gone.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 28 Oct 2024, 15:24,
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Awww, bugger.
Sad to hear this, I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but his posts were always a joy to read.
My condolences to his family.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 16:27,
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sorry to hear that
maybe they'll give him legs in heaven
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MiseryCunt S P E L L C A S T I N G, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 16:29,
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RIP old chap
A man of a thousand fabulous tales. And a fun person to work with on projects. And always oddly powerful. Rest easy, much respect.
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cr3, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 17:08,
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Absolutely
I was part of Clinman for a while. That bloke was absolutely entertainining to work with for sure.
Just don't start drinking with him...
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He aint heavy
I'm Joe's brother, I was devasted to learn that he'd collapsed at home last Wednesday, and couldn't be resuscitated. Both of us have had our struggles with cancer, we used to text and Whatsapp just about every day. We used to sign off our long meandering Whatsapp messages with the tag line 'Not Dead Yet', And now, it's all change.
RIP Joe, you were more than a brother, you were my friend..
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RIP, friend.
I will always regret that we never met. I wanted very much to buy him pints and swap stories that we dared not post.
Rest easy, Joe. You earned it.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 28 Oct 2024, 21:34,
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'dofs hat
cheerio fella - see you on the other side.
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TBL I posted this on, Tue 29 Oct 2024, 6:01,
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sad news
i remember a few of his qotws, reckon he had a bit of fun in his salad days. Hope his family are bearing up ok, but if they're not that's part of it. Death sucks. Hope his daughter goes on to good things, but keeps that irreverent spark of her dad that we got to see
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 29 Oct 2024, 9:33,
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A big loss from the good old days of the internet
That's sad news, his stories were the stuff of legend.
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RIP to the greatest raconteur among us
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.Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 29 Oct 2024, 12:51,
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Ah, sadness. :-(
An amusing bloke, no doubt. Condolences to his family. Thanks for the laughs, Legless.
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Smiley_Neil filling the interweb with crap, Thu 31 Oct 2024, 9:36,
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:-(
It really sucks we are losing folk that are way, way too young for it. Loved his stories and more than once got bollocked at work for laughing out loud at his posts.
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dan j the filthy bastard, Thu 31 Oct 2024, 15:36,
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Simply……. Cheers
This prompted me to log back in after nearly a decade away.
Very sad news.
QOTW was always a cracker when he was letting things rip on all cylinders.
Back in 2010 I asked him for career advice. Helped me immensely.
Cheers
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Thanks mate. Sleep well.
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The Twisted Omentum vidi vici veni, Thu 31 Oct 2024, 21:15,
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I have to admit, I didn’t always enjoy his stories - but he was definitely a huge part of my internet experience back in the day. Reading back through the QOTW archive recently and lots of tall tales from the man himself. Terrible way to go, too. RIP, Joe.
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CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Fri 1 Nov 2024, 23:26,
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Forever Legless
Such wit, such verve, such a loss
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doctordoctor I feel like a pair of curtains, Sat 2 Nov 2024, 1:38,
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this made me sad
I've reactivated my old account just to come on here and say I always enjoyed Legless' posts and our occasional chats, sad he's gone.
Cheers Joe.
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Cheers Legless
RIP
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 3 Nov 2024, 10:12,
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Shit.
Just, shit. Condolences to Mrs Legless and daughter.
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Sweeplovesfisting Take all your footballs home and burst them., Sun 3 Nov 2024, 16:00,
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