R.I.P - Tpww Poster Daniel Frieda (Pepsi Man): 1983-2007
 

R.I.P - Tpww Poster Daniel Frieda (Pepsi Man): 1983-2007

Hey guys,

I don't know if this thread is appropriate or not (if it isn't, please feel free to delete this), but I do know that Pepsi Man, in the last few years, posted far more on the wrestling forum than casual.

Hopefully - this thread can be devoted to Pepsi Man...and what positives he brought to the wrestling forum (and other forums if you wish).

For me - I admittedly was a dick to Pepsi Man. I laughed at a lot of things that I truly feel bad for. Luckily for me, I private messaged Pepsi Man earlier and forgave him for talking so much smack. Being the class act that he was, Pepsi Man forgave me. I honestly don't know too much on what Pepsi Man's wrestling viewpoints were (I haven't been here much the past few years), but he seemed to know his stuff.

My best memories of The Pep will be the many laughs that he provided me and Tpww.

God bless.

Yeah, what?

We didn't notice so much that he continued to post?

Assuming that was a typo, he was pretty cool. Good all-around poster. He will be missed in a "he didn't post much but he was the goods" sort of way. :(

he died Wed apparently due to complications with diabetes. I posted my comments in the casual forum, but he was great wrestling forum poster. I had a lot of scuffles with him, but he had a lot of knowledge about the sport and he was fun to have around. Wheter it be as "The Pep" in c-fedding or the poster himself.

No way


Damn


RIP :(

This will sound very ridiculous, but I'll say it anyway:

Before this post, I was actually going to post in a thread where I was going to rip the shit out of Bret Hart and Rob Harvey (in the thread entitled, "For those who think the WWE and Shawn Michaels are over the Montreal screw job.").

I then stopped myself and wondered, "If something seriously bad happened to Bret or Rob, would I feel good about this post?"

So yeah - pretty gay on my part to think along those lines, but this whole Pepsi Man debacle has brought me a new awareness (well actually it hasn't.....I've always been "aware", I just never gave a fuck). I'm going to try very hard to not talk shit to anyone. I'll only talk smack to people who KNOW that I'm joking and know that I'm just clowning around.

Jesus.

I just figured this was more of Heyman's tomfoolery.

Oops, I just realized I put 2004 instead of 2007 in the subject heading. :o

Kane Knight and BDC's comments NOW make sense. --> :o:o

Originally, we thought it was just a rumor started by Dxfan (Fat Eddie Delgado) at DVS, so we disregarded it as just him being a dickhead. Then Peps's brother-in-law confirmed it in a post. Christ, I was just talkin to Peps this past Monday about some of our E-Fed business and then this. :(

Yeah, I just deleted my comment in the light of the fact that it's not a joke, but a typo which is now corrected.

I'd just as soon not be dickish on this point. I assumed it was a joke.

A fucking shame. I've been on the boards for years on and off and always enjoyed a good Pepsiman post. RIP and best wishes to his family.

Well, I never knew him that well. Perhaps because I’ve only been posting since early ’05. But at any rate...

Bigfoot sightings will never be the same. :(

God damn it...
Rest in peace Pepsiman.
He's the only poster who off the bat I can remember had his own rep nammed after him. Cooler than Pepsi Man at a sweatpants convention....

Taken far too young

R.I.P.

:(

Sorry to hear that.

RIP.

-KayfabeMan

Damn...

Long Live Pepsi Man.

OMFG. Didn't know him at all, recognised the name, and definitely the avatar.

God bless. RIP and a +1 to his account as it's all I can do to say, god speed Pepsi Man.

..fuck! He's my age.

RIP.

Never really knew him, but sad nonetheless.

Also, what is DVS?

Does this mean you are going to stop psychoanalyzing my relationship with DMI, The Mask, and Stima?

Cause I almost cut myself the last time.

Another message board..

He was a good dude..

RIP and God Bless..

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Not to be morbid, but does anyone know what happened/how he deceased?
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It's not often that I am found at a loss of words, but Pepsi Man was a great guy. We shared a lot of conversations on IM and Private Messages, and right now my only hope is that this is a Heyman prank. If it's not, than...

...may you rest in peace my friend.

Wow, this has taken me completely by shock, TPWWers have died before, but not since I started posting regularly... we had some good MSN conversations back in the day, Pep. Rest in Peace. :(

What'cha wanna bet that within the next few days TPWW's newest board member is going to be "Ghost of The Pep"

Shiity news, one of the few reg's round here that I didn't disagree with on a regular basis.

RIP Pepsi.

Damn. This is so depressing.

Like when a wrestler dies it's almost not real and you can kind of just be like damn I saw that guy every week, but when a poster dies it's like "I interacted with that Guy!" damn.

RIP

This is sad. 24.... Way too young. Since his family probably won't read this, my heart goes out to anyone on this board who knew him even a little.

*ahem*

But yeah. :(

Didn't know him personally, or anything, but if he has passed on, that is awful news. RIP, man.

If this is a joke, it's not funny.

Any self-respecting mod would sticky this.

Wow, i didn't really know him at all but this is kinda shocking when you hear stuff like this, especially at such a young age, RIP.

RIP

Not to make this about me but this event got me thinking that if anything were to happen to me you guys would have no way of knowing. I'm probably gonna make an 'In The Event Of' note for my peeps so they could log into spots like this and deliver the news.

There's a KK rep?
For that matter is there a list of rep titles I can see?

Not to make this about me but this event got me thinking that if anything were to happen to me you guys would have no way of knowing. I'm probably gonna make an 'In The Event Of' note for my peeps so they could log into spots like this and deliver the news.

I was also thinking this about me strangely.

I don't know what to say about this.

I pretty much only knew him on the board but he was easily one of the best guys on here. My heart goes out to his family and friends right now.

Anyone know of funeral details?

It's something like "(User) Must have pissed off Kane Knight."

There's also "(User) is the apple of da_knig's eye."

But I think the Pep was the first, anyway.

Dan sure put up with a lot of shit in his life, and managed to still come off as decent most of the time.

So yeah.

ffuucck, I thought it was a joke when I opened this thread. RIP :(

RIP Pepsi Man

I really wish I had something to contribute that would mean something. He was a great poster, but I didn't really know him. In the absence of being able to say something meaningful, I'll say that it's a horribly unfortunate situation, and my thoughts go out to anyone who did know him. That, and hopefully he made the best of the years he did have.

RIP

I didn't really know him, but RIP all the same.

I seriously hope this isn't a joke, presuming it isn't...

Since I've been coming on TPWW (end of 2003), although I've not been a regular poster or anything 'Pepsi Man' is one of the posters I'd always noticed and 'respected'. I've never had a conversation with him but from what I could tell he was a decent person, and no way deserved to be taken so young.

R.I.P Pepsi Man, I shall crack open a pepsi in your honour though I don't know you.

I didn't know him too well, but that really sucks. R.I.P. :(

far too young :(

thanks for stickying this Kev. I forgot that he lived like 30 minutes from me in North Carolina. dunno is he still resided there today, but he has it listed in his profile.

One thing that will always stick out to me with him was those pictures he posted doing wrestling poses with his shirt off. lol. so goofy, but hillarious.

Wow, I really don't know what to say, this has really kicked me in the gut. Another gone far too young.
He was a genuinely nice guy, who stuck to his guns, even when riddiculed. I look back to our Coke vs Pepsi battles with fondness, and TPWW is a worse place without him here.

My thoughts are with his family, and may he Rest in Peace.

Already posted in the casual thread but still, this is a real fuckin shame, 24 is no age. All in all Peps always came off as a good guy, a little misguided sometimes (I too am guilty of verbally beating on him a few times because of it) but always well-meaning, and sometimes hilarious as fuck.

Have a good one Peps:wavesad:

I just remembered the time I watched him chug a 2 litre bottle of diet Pepsi on a webcam. That was amazing. :( The more I think about this, the sadder I become, we've lost a truly great poster in Pepsi Man, at an all too young age too. :(

Really tragic.

RIP.

I don't really know what else to say.

<font color=goldenrod>I posted in casual but this is still shocking. Such a young age.</font> :(

My thoughts exactly.

RIP

i am still in disbelief. i posted a few times on his DVS forum, chatted on IM, and was friends with him on myspace. seems like he had to put up with a lot of shit in his life, but never complained about it.

dont know if anyone really cared about it but figured i would post anyways, it was his last Myspace survey thing, he would take 3-5 of them a day and then send out the results to all of his myspace friends. guess its kinda like his final thoughts from Nov 19 and gives an insight into who he was beyond the forum.

WHAT

What town do you live in?
Concord - Pepsicular Note: Hey, me too!

What are your pet peeves?
I have a lot of them.

What are you wearing?
Underwear, glasses, and nothing else, unless you count my hair, which is of course natural.

What do your teeth look like?
They look a lot like…teeth!

What are you doing in an hour?
Whatever I feel like at the time.

What is your middle name?
Adam.

What is your deepest secret?
I don’t know that any secrets I have are really all that deep, to be honest.

What are you doing tomorrow?
Working.

What is your boy/girlfriends middle name?
I have a girlfriend? Why didn’t anyone inform me of this?

What are you sitting on?
a chair - Pepsicular Note: Me too! How surprising on both of our parts, eh?

WHERE

Where are you at right now?
At home.

Where were you at at 12 noon today?
At home.

Where is your toothbrush at?
On the sink.

Where do you sleep?
My bed.

Where do you live?
In this lame apartment.

Where were you at at 7pm yesterday?
Working.

Where is your boy/girl friend?
Again?

Where are your parents?
At home…

Where did you put your bookbag?
Um, at my old age, I don’t have a book bag.

Where do you keep your socks?
Wherever they end up. Usually in the basket, though, to be honest.

WHEN

When was your first kiss?
April 2001.

When are you getting a job?
Um, I have a job, you fucking douche bag. When are you getting a job?

When will you grow up?
When you stop being a lame bitch.

When are you going to call your friend?
I don’t know. I’m not big on phone calls.

When did you get home last night?
Before 9, if I remember correctly.

When did you graduate?
Officially, after first semester in the 2000-2001 school year.

When are you going to stop taking surveys?
And that’s your concern, because…

When was the last time you had a fruit smoothie?
N/A.

When are you getting married?
Whenever it happens, if it ever happens.

WHY

Why are you taking this?
Why shouldn’t I?

Why are you weird?
Because I am.

Why are you wearing what your wearing right now?
Why not?

Why dont you have friends?
I don’t have friends? Well, this is news to me.

Why cant you get a boy/girl friend?
I really haven’t made that a priority, to be honest.

Why do you live where your at?
Because I fucked up six months ago, okay?

HOW

How do you fix your hair?
I brush it =D - Pepsicular Note: Same here. BIG surprise we would use that thing called a brush on our hair, eh, Nick?

How are the kids?
What kids?

How many hours do you spend on the computer?
However many I feel like.

How many TV shows do you watch?
Four, on a regular basis.

How do you make sharpies?
Um, what?

How many sharpies do you own?
The fuck?

How often do you say I love you?
I’m supposed to keep count?

LOL.

Seriously? He did that? Awesome.

I really don't know what to say, I never really knew the guy. We exhanged a few words in my time here and he seemed like a funny guy. Always stuck up for his views and opinions in a rational manner; he has a decent amount of class when it came to the hectic conversations of the IWC. I hate when anyone dies young, especially when they're good people in general. I'm not big on religion, but I hope whatever he believed in serves him the best. I wish I would've got to know him more.

I hope one day that I can be more popular than Pepsi Man at a Sweatpants Convention.

Wow, this is abit of a shock. Of course we didn't know the real Pepsi Man, but we knew a part of him which we all could identify with.

R.I.P Pep

Wow. Dan was probably one of my best buddies from here going back to long, long ago.

He was a great guy and a true friend....

I cant remember how many people from TPWW have died, unfortunately (and I've been here for all of them) I think Dan is the 4th...and it hits me harder every single time, :-\

Wow. This is the first person I know of on a message board whose death wasn't a hoax. And in times like this, you actually end up wishing it was.

I didn't know him personally, never really talked to him one on one via PM or IM, but he was always in the echelon of "respected poster" in my book. Very knowledgeable and a good guy. It seriously sucks to lose him.

Diabetes... you never really think that has such an impact, but it can. I know several people with diabetes, and it rarely registers that they're actually battling a life-threatening disease. But it is.

Rest in Peace, Pepsi Man. :(

I remember the old tale of his mum blocking him on MSN lol.

Never talked to him or anything, but what's happened is a damn shame.

RIP.

hol shit, I hope they buried him wityh his sweatpants on

RIP The Pep

He did that as a diabetic?

Yeah, I dunno for sure if it was diet or not (cos, I'll be honest, I know next to nothing about diabetes) but I seem to remember him telling me he drank diet Pepsi.

In any case, he did chug a huge bottle of Pepsi.

RIP Pepsi Man

Wow, way too young.

this is probably too insignificant coming from me, but still

RIP

Diet Pepsi contains no sugar.

...Theoretically.

I remember him telling me about chugging a gallon of milk, though. Or most of one. And I thought to myself, ":wtf:?"

But milk's got a lot of sugar, and is a largely different story.

...Okay, I'm creeped out by the fact that we're sharing memories about what beverages he chugged. :D

Diet drinks do contain sweeteners, which apparently the body treats as sugar. Still a good achievement to drink that much.

Asparatame doesn't impact blood sugar, nor do many other artificial sweeteners. Some do, but Nutrasweet won't.

Side note, Nutrasweet is lethal to a portion of the population. My mother's one of the people adversely affected by it. There's a reason I'm well versed on the subject.

What the fuck :(.


Dan was probably one of the nicest people on TPWW, very very fun to talk to and definitely one of my best friends here. RIP.

BTW heyman it's nice to know that behind that gimmick of yours, behind all the terrible things you have said and done, that you are a real human being. It's times like this that show everyone for who we really are.

Hadn't spoken to him properlly in ages, obvioulsy I wish I had now

RIP Pep you are going to be missed

Thanks Lara - I appreciate that. While I'm at it, I also want to apologize to you in regards to my past actions.

I think a few years ago, Pepsi Man made a comment along the lines of, "there's a bit of the pep in all of us." LOL. When he first made the comment, I thought he was a massive goof....and proceeded to flame him even further.

Funny how his words from that time will now stick with me forever.

I think one thing that I've learned from this Pepsi Man tragedy, is

1) Always be careful with what you say.....as it truly might come back to haunt you. Yes - I acted like a dick on here for so many years, and it was naive of me to assume that I wouldn't feel bad just incase something DID happen to someone.

2) Show more appreciation to others on a regular basis. Life is short, and life is full of surprises...many of which are unwanted. Whenever possible, show appreciation/love to your family and friends. I know this sounds highly gay right now, but I'm dead serious. You never really know what's around the corner.

3) A part of me is a little sad that Pepsi Man won't get to see this thread....and the outpour from his former Tpww posters. I'm not sure if Pepsi Man really knew how appreciated he was on here....and it absolutely sucks that it took him dying to really showcase that.

And that's exactly why I say this now. Show appreciation NOW....while your loved ones are alive.

I have positive rep from Pepsi Man in my User CP. That disturbs the hell out of me. Here's hoping he's at peace, he was always a good guy around here.

Incidentally-

I have a folder on my computer that contains lists of 'net places that should be notified in the event of my death/incapacitation, and the location of a notebook full of passwords and stuff (not foolish enough to leave it on a computer that could be hacked.) I also keep a copy of said instructions on a flash drive that I carry with my at almost all times. Three very specifically chosen people know of this. It bothers me sometimes to think of all the 'net friends I've had who I've just lost contact with, and you never know what may have happened to someone like that. Bottom line, I suppose, make sure that if you want people to know if you go, you've left the means to find it out.

What makes you think he won't get to see it?

Never really spoke to him that much besides for RAW threads, but from his posts he seemed to really be a good guy. It is a real shame when someone goes too young, especially when he's around my age. RIP Pep

I want to hug Heyman right about now..

R.I.P. :(

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RIP

Hey ddpBANG - thanks for leaving the link to that page. I truly hope that Daniel's family and friends know that the Tpww community also mourn the loss of, and yet celebrate the life and memories of Daniel.

This is slightly off topic, and I hope no one takes it as being disrespectful toward Dan, but you know how death's come in threes? Well, this sort of applies from my point of view, because you've got Sean Taylor's shooting death, and today, I found out a current student at USC died from a lung infection.

All three said to be good people (well, Taylor having cleaned up his act, I guess that counts?), all three taken much too early in life. :(

Every year for the holidays I donate some cash to chairty. I think if you have 20 bucks to spare that the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation - Charlotte Chapter would be a good chairty in light of what happened.
I'm throwing in 20 bucks, and I'd like to see other people do the same.

I loved his posts when I was a guest here. Gonna miss him.:'(

As a "guest" for so many years and getting to know you all pretty well, it was this sad news that prompted me to finally pull my finger out and join, if for no other reason than to pay my respects.

Even though I was a guest, I really enjoyed Pepsi Man's posts and on hearing the news, I felt shattered.

Yep. Gonna miss him too. Hope you're in a better place now PM :(

Sucks something feirce.

Pepsi Man's mom is good with vB..

Vbulletin. I think he meant html coding though. If you are who you say you are, I am sorry for your loss.

Hello Pepsimansmom,

No problem and my pleasure.

Pepsi Man was a bit of an oddball at times, but I can honestly say that he was one of the nicest and most genuine guys that I've ever met on here.

I can't even imagine what it would be like to lose a son, but please be rest assured that he brought us a lot of hard laughs and good memories.

I probably ribbed him a little too much, but I was always a fan of the Pep.

He was very popular on here. I'm so sorry for the loss.

That hits home to me a bit...I was diagnosed with diabetes when I was 19. I had to control it by pills. After a couple years, I lost a great amount of weight, exercising, and cutting way back on my eating habits (I don't go for seconds and I cut snacks off completely). And now, I'm off the pills and controlling it by diet and exercise.

He was only 24, jesus

Damn shame, sounds dumb but didnt even know diabetes was 'that serious'

Oh yeah. It is serious. And the list of complications scared me straight. The closest call for me was with my kidneys. I had to get checked one day, followed doctor's orders, and checked back exactly a year later to see if there was prominent damage, and I got the okay that my kidneys are in good shape.

At first, I thought this was just someone trolling. I am quite happy to see it is not.

So sorry to hear about any1 getting diabetes...it does suck!! Danny was 3 yrs old when we found out...he had a heart problem found at birth & I 1st thought that it had to do with that...I knew nothing about diabetes..I learn REAL quick tho!! Had to give him 4 shots a day at 1st for yrs.
DLVH84..I am glad to see ur doing ok.... we found out last yr that mu hubby has it too...thankfully he doesn't need shots...diet & pills.
I'm glad that you all relize who I am....I think I'd flip out on some1 IF I saw they were trying to be an ass & say they are "Dan's mom & it wasn't me. I did get some hateful emails tho...but I guess that was to b expeted knowing my son .... I don't doubt he pissed off a few out there.....

Can't believe it's been almost 5 years. And considering I really didn't know PM hardly at all, I was surprised to see that In Memory pic I made; honestly do not recall doing that at all, but I must have.

And @PM's mom, I'm so sorry for your loss, and I can only hope that as time has gone by since your son's untimely death, that you have found some small measure of comfort in knowing that he's in a much better place right now and watching over everyone who was ever important to him.