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A 75-YEAR-OLD man died “peacefully” at his home in the US state of Oregon after his ex-wife led him to believe that President Donald Trump had been impeached.
Michael Garland Elliott died earlier this month after Teresa Elliott, his ex-wife and best friend, broke the false news to him, according to his obituary published in The Oregonian.
“Upon hearing that he took his final, gentle breath, his earthly work concluded,” the obituary said.
Teresa Elliott told several US media outlets that her ex-husband was appalled by Trump’s election and she wrongly told him he had been impeached so he could die happy.
Elliott, who was born in Virginia and later moved to California, was a Porsche enthusiast and was passionate about golf, the humorous obituary says.
On moving to California after college, he joined a semi-professional basketball team that toured the country dressed as women, it added.
“At such times Mike was called Skaggy Maggie and continued round-ball domination, albeit with a different uniform,” the obit says.
It said that though his marriage to Elliott ended, the pair had remained friends after their divorce “and hers was the last voice Mike heard”.
Dozens of tributes have been posted on The Oregonian’s “guest book” to honor Elliott.
“This was the best dang obituary I’ve ever read,” one person wrote. “May its words be prophecy.”
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Are they really benefitting from WhatsApp’s outage, or is it more that people are ditching WhatsApp since the Facebook takeover?
I deleted my account, and the app from my phone. Barely use it as it is. Find Viber better.
Yeah, I only use viber. Didn’t bother even trying any other messaging app. How many different ways do I need to talk to the same people?
Had both WhatsApp and Viber for a couple of years. When Viber added text messaging (was originally just voice) stopped using WhatsApp altogether.
The stock valuations of these tech companies make no sence ! Twitter never has made a profit and is worth billions !
Never heard of LINE don’t know why they’re bragging. Left whatsapp for viber a long time ago. Joining with Facebook will mean constant technical problems problems
Currently working in S.E. Asia here, Whatsapp is almost nonexistent – Line has pretty much obtained market saturation. It’s a big world out there buddy, and Ireland is a very small pixel in the picture.
Just sayin’
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Understand that… Just stating I’ve never heard of them….. Buddy….
Well you said you don’t know why they’re bragging… Well, 340+ million users and 0 network problems, (ever, in my experience). Facebook buys Whatsapp and an outage occurs within hours.
That’s the reason they were braggin’
:)
Yep. Any Korean or Japanese person I’ve met here in Asia seem to never even have heard of Viber or Whatsapp. LINE is massive. I prefer it to Viber which I use for my Irish friends. I’d recommend to give it a try.
Ah jasus there’s messaging app fanboi’s now…
No point in staying with a service when there is a better one out there for free.
Viber is so laggy I can’t deal with it. Whatsapp is miles better but now I wonder about privacy now that fb have taken over. No doubt in a few weeks we’ll notice ‘pages you might like suggestions’ will be relevant to private conversations had with mates on what’s app.
I’m no expert but I would expect people to bounce around from one free app to the next. It takes seconds and groups can reform in no time. Facebook will try to cull or own any threat to its platform, which I have to say, for me is becoming less interesting every day.
My daughter in Japan told us about Line over two years ago and we use it all the time, it is a superb messaging and call service, very clear with no delay between Ireland and Japan.
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