GOOGA RIP

in reality, all of this has been a total load of old bollocks
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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby The Modernist » 15 Aug 2024, 18:30

My reasons are...

1. The guy on the right has a Brian Wilsonesque startled 'rabbit caught in the headlights' look about him.
2. I reckon a father would be more likely to sit alongside his son.
3. Finally the cheesecake on the left has been untouched, while the plate on the right has mostly been devoured. Googa liked his cake!
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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby Walk In My Shadow » 15 Aug 2024, 19:01

I rarely come to Nextdoorland so I've just seen this. Damn, like many here I thought he had flounced for a while and would turn up eventually.

His Facebook account shows he had many (over 600) friends there but no picture of him.

Sometimes I defended him and sometimes he irritated me. But he always had something to say and partly kept this forum alive with his posts.

I will miss him more than I can say. He was a real character.


RIP Googs.



I wonder why he had TWO FB accounts?
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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby Hugh » 15 Aug 2024, 19:11

Maybe we should start a poll but I think it has to be the guy on the left.

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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby Walk In My Shadow » 15 Aug 2024, 19:25

Hugh wrote:Maybe we should start a poll but I think it has to be the guy on the left.



I read through the posts on that Danish site. A sort of BCB for comics.

There's guys already wondering what will happen to his huge comics collection. Apparently his brother will curate this.

Googs was 61, his brother younger.
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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby Purgatory Brite » 15 Aug 2024, 20:15

Very sad news indeed. RIP Googs!

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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby Matt Wilson » 18 Aug 2024, 01:43

Geez, just saw this. Now I feel bad. I dunno, I think I'm getting sadder as I get older for some reason. Didn't even really know him, but I feel down.

At least all the people here who posited that he was an alias for years now know he wasn't.

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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby Rayge » 18 Aug 2024, 19:27

Walk In My Shadow wrote:
I wonder why he had TWO FB accounts?

Going by the daes on them, I think he was shut out of one - lost password perhaps - and started another.
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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby trans-chigley express » 19 Aug 2024, 15:01

Very sad to hear of this. I know his health wasn't great and he didn't seem to care too much about it, but I never realised he had cancer and surpised he was only 61 as he came across as a decade older. He could be frustrating at times but he was certainly passionate about music even if he seemed to lack an ability to filter the good from the bad. I liked him being around and his absence will be noticed.

RIP Googs.

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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby trans-chigley express » 19 Aug 2024, 15:04

Andrews Sisters Conundrum wrote:You think? I'd put money on it being the fella on the left.


I would too. The beard, unkempt hair and overweight physique seem to fit with how I imagined him, plus he seems to be wearing a T-shirt with a reference to Japan where he once lived.

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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby copehead » 20 Aug 2024, 18:49

What sad news.

I, like many others it seems, just assumed he was having a bit of time away from the board again.

I wish I could have kept my passion for popular culture burning as brightly as he obviously did he was passionately engaged right till the end, a true fan.

I hope his various spats on here didn't give him too much pain, he always came back so I hope he had fun posting here.

I think some people just couldn't comprehend his eclectic tastes and his enthusiasm for investigating and owning what for most of us would be ephemera or worse, but it became clear that he was genuinely and passionately interested in pop music.

I think once that had sunk in he got an easier ride

Reading the posts on the comics website was interesting, he was obviously part of communities where his input was cherished, and I think that happened here too, sometimes he seemed to be the only person posting non-prog threads here.

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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby mudshark » 21 Aug 2024, 00:06

...And the music played on...
I'm sure he was a good person.
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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 10 Sep 2024, 08:34

I haven’t been here much in the last few years. But was saddened to read this tonight.

You couldn’t make a character like Googs up…
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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby northernsky » 12 Oct 2024, 14:36

Very sad to read this.
Farewell to a unique voice on here.
You better believe I’ll be cueing up Wild Honey and necking a six-pack of Cult Cola (world’s strongest cola) in his memory.

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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby Santa C » 12 Oct 2024, 15:26

northernsky wrote:Very sad to read this.
Farewell to a unique voice on here.
You better believe I’ll be cueing up Wild Honey and necking a six-pack of Cult Cola (world’s strongest cola) in his memory.


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Nice!

Welcome back lad, even in these sad circumstances

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Re: GOOGA RIP

Postby sloopjohnc » 25 Oct 2024, 00:14

I came on here today because I was thinking about Googa last night for some reason. I liked the guy. He seemed like a human version of a big goofy dog with long ears and slobber who you can't help but like even though he'd the slobber all over your shoes or shirt sleeve and he'd always be at the door asking to be let out. He was never mean, at least I don't remember him ever being that way, and that goes a long way in my book as I get older.
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