We lost the greatest legend in Roth Army history today.
Condolences to his family!
Another legend gone way too soon.
We lost the greatest legend in Roth Army history today.
Condolences to his family!
Another legend gone way too soon.
So this isn't like when Flappo died.. was it?
The guy was awesome.. too bad for him and his family.. if true.
His FB newsfeed is covered with condolences and his sister confirmed this.
Horrible news...RIP hitch, my condolences to his family
I recieved this from his daughter
Doug Hitchens Jr. passed away on January 23, 2017. His viewing is public and will be held on Tuesday, January 31, 2017, at 4 to 6pm at Resthaven entering Loveland along 287. The funeral service and Burial will be held on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 2pm at Resthaven as well.
All information will also be included in this weekend's Coloradoan and Greeley Tribune. Please message Doug's account for any further questions.
Please include anyone you may know of that has not received this news and information.
This is absolutely heart wrenching , it's 100% confirmed by his family.
I just finished talking to his daughter.
hitch1969 aka Doug Hitchens was one of the most beloved members here.
He absolutely helped put this place on the map and brought in tons of traffic here in the army's infant stages, and his rants and multiple accounts made him legendary! I've had the great honor of being a friend of his over the years, even more so that I got to know the Real hitch1969 and his family!
RIP Doug
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The Spock stuff was classic!
Writing In All Proper Case Takes Extra Time, Is Confusing To Read, And Is Completely Pointless.
Terrible loss for this community.
Hitch was a cynical, outrageous, flawed, comical, Sammy Hagar Lovin', genius, and friend.
He was one of the first people I met on the internet. He personally convinced me to reopen this website after I closed it in 2000.
RIP.
I enjoyed all the rants and humor. I think about him anytime I think about child support, Michael Jackson, OJ Simpson, .. etc because of the stuff he said here and at hitchWORLD.
I liked him so much that I created and hosted his website for him, which was a ripoff of the Slawterhouse site. We made it as ugly as possible.
He seemed to have the intellectual capital of a genius, but no way to harness it.
RIP dude.
Can someone change the countdown clock on the top of the forums to an RIP of this great man?
Sarge
Hitch was a legend on what I like to call the "Real" internet. Back when it was free wheelin and above the head of any regulator or regulator wannabe. Sad to hear Hitch has passed on but as they say legends never die.
No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
Goddamn it. I was sure this was another WARF hoax at first.
Well, I know that Hitch wouldn't want to read any weepy mourning from the likes of me, so I'll just say I'll miss the old bastard and leave it at that. Maybe pour out a New Belgium microbrew from his home town region tonight.
Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
I always found Hitch quite amusing when I frequented this joint many years ago. RIP, Hitch.
Originally posted by perilouspete
fryingdutchman you pretty much own everyone.....sick comebacks, well put. top class wit.
Motherfuck. This sucks. I fucking loved Hitch1969. His Holiday rants were epic. Hell, his rants in general were epic. The guy was a genius, and will forever be a legend in Roth Army lore.
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This is hitches final post.
I'll be posting more classic hitch rants that he has posted on social media that the army has missed in his absence.
One of his final posts
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Jesus, didn't he have some rants with his kids.......
hitch decides to marry himself in 2017
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I wonder if this is why Kristy has been missing?
Dude was the craziest motherfucker in internet history...
He was a troll before they were even called trolls...
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It was hitches dream to have the smokey and the bandit outfit
Brethren and Sistren,
This is sad news indeed (Brownsound hit me with the news today). When I first ran into hitch1969©®™, I think Gary Cherone was still the lead singer, Clinton was on his way out, my dot.com portfolio hadn't yet imploded, my ROID-RIDDLED ASS©®™ was still just a metaphor, and hitch and I would discuss the finer points of Y2K. He was the master of aliases and rants and Signage™®©. He was to forum drama and intrigue and caricature what Edward is to the six-string. He was an INNOVATAH©®™
Sarge nails the main points... child support ("Reward The Whore Justice System™®©"), feminism ("Domesticated and Emasculated™®©"), The Gay Agenda™®©, Edward's Cancerous Tongue, MJ, OJ, Spock, "FUCK BLOODY <insert celeb/event/holiday here> IN THE BLOODY FUCKING ASS!!!!™®©" and so on and so forth...
He was a genius and joker and mad scientist and fan and friend. He didn't always have his head on straight, but that was ok, his heart was generally always in the right place. He's one of the few from DLRArmy that I had a friendship with outside the forums... I have a CD he made for me about 12 years ago, a Stone Temple Pilots Greatest hits. I sent him a Nirvana compilation I'd created with artwork and DVD bootleg from a 1990 Italy show before they broke big, and he was so stoked... I'll miss him... Like Sarge, I helped out both as myself and as various aliases on hitchworld1969.com and hitch truly made it his home. Nothing was off limits: gender politics, corrupt govt and justice system, aliens, conspiracies, trying to convince me that Steve Savicki and his love of MJ and Laura Branigan were actually NORMAL©®™ and OK©®™, his shit jobs (if I recall he worked at an AOL call center or some such years ago)...
Well goddammit, I'll just ramble on and on... suffice to say, hitch will be missed. I have many memories of hitch and the early days of the DLRArmy. We've lost a number of Army members over the years, and that shouldn't be much of a surprise for a site that is going on 17 years if memory serves. But that doesn't make any loss, particularly hitch1969©®™, any less of a shock.
God bless, my brother, may you find in the Afterworld©®™ the peace and happiness that often eluded you in this one...
An Icon©®™ JACKBOOT MOTHERFUCK©®™ and hitchworld1969.com©®™ I Am DEAD Serious©®™ 2000-2017 Last Words Compilation©®™
An Icon©®™Incorporated/GODDAM BUCK-KNIFE JACKBOOT MOTHERFUCK©®™ Production.
hitchWORLD1969.com© and Old Boy Club© Co-Founder, Investor, and Spiritual Leader 1996-2024©™®
E.U.A.S. - "The Feng Shui in the House That Roth Built!"
R.I.P. - Douglas Hitchens, Jr. aka Hitch1969 aka Supermodel Doug et al... 1-23-2017
"It is possible to OverGap©®™" - Sesh©®™, 5-8-2013
"A reacharound doesn't need to be gay." - Sesh©®™, 1-18-2012
"If we are going to have ex mods posting cocks can they at least be a manageable size." - Sesh©®™, 8-24-2011
"For the love of jive, have a waborita and chill out." - Hitchman©®™, 5-18-2004
And his love for Star Trek and William Shatner
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I told his daughter how much he was loved here and gave her a link to this thread.
We both had many of the same favorite lyrics which he included with the CD...
An Icon©®™ JACKBOOT MOTHERFUCK©®™ and hitchworld1969.com©®™ I Am DEAD Serious©®™ 2000-2017 Last Words Compilation©®™
He crossed some lines a few times but I was a big fan, back in the wild west days of the internet in the early 2000s he was the man.
I assumed that no news was good news and not posting here or at the infamous HitchWorld©®™ for the last few years was a positive thing that he had better things to do than just make us laugh at his frustration with the world.
RIP from your favorite Irishman©®™.
You beat me to it Conmee, I'm still at work, and that's at home. I do have a good screen shot though.
Kind of cool when technology breaks barriers like this and allows all of us from all over the world to connect for something good (but sad) - it's also cool Hitch shared his "digital legacy" with us so we can enjoy even after he's gone. Special dude for sure, will miss that guy. Condolences and much love to his family from the Roth Army, thank you for sharing Hitch with us all.
Hitch was way ahead of his time on the ALGORE Internet ©®™.
Nowadays he could have turned his HitchBRAIN©®™ to become one of those YouTube bloggers and monetized his unique outlook.
Aw fuck, RIP Hitch.....
Internet personas aside, we've lost too many good people here at the Army.....
Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth
I bet you say that to all the boys...
But seriously, it was really nice to converse with Hitch more person to person (real name-wise) reading his interaction with his kids, and just the growing old process with the humor he was notorious for. While my heart bleeds for his family, I feel sorry for myself. Because now I don't have the man to entertain and relate to....
If you never had the pleasure of having Hitch fuck with you, you missed out. I think the best one he got me with, was when he made my desktop show up either in my posts, or my sig. I didn't know I was the only one that could see it, and thought everybody could see into my computer! Ha ha ha! I still have no fucking idea how he did that.
I'm a huge fan of trolling and appreciate the best. Trump was the first internet troll to become president but I have no doubt Hitch was on his way there down the road but apparently God had a higher calling for him. I'm sure Hitch is trolling the universe like a god right now.
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