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 Post subject: Bozo / No Bra
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Sound like someone I would have liked to know - Scar

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By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
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on August 22, 2016 at 6:09 PM, updated August 23, 2016 at 11:52 AM




JERSEY CITY — If Pint were Cheers, Roger Brown would have been its Norm.

The East Orange man was a regular at the Downtown Jersey City pub, where he could be found sitting on the third stool down from the entrance, drinking a vodka-and-cranberry with slices of orange and lemon and playing trivia game Buzztime, often on multiple controllers at once.

Some of his Buzztime usernames were Bozo and No Bra.

"On the running sitcom that was this bar, Roger was a central character," Pint regular Russell Presgraves said.

Brown's stool at Pint was empty on Thursday night, when the bar's regulars gathered to memorialize the avid sailor, who died on Aug. 6 when he drowned after falling from a boat in Liberty Harbor Marina. Brown — his full name was Roderick Roosevelt — was 64.

The open-mic memorial was a chance to give Brown's Pint family a chance to honor him with memories and stories, said bar owner Wolf Sterling. Brown was "a part of this place," Sterling said.

"If you sat next to him, he would be your instant best friend," he said. "He would talk to anybody. And he would laugh."

The memorial attracted about 30 people to the tiny Wayne Street bar. A few tears were shed, but the mood was rarely mournful. The crowd laughed as Brown's friends remembered his catchphrases, how he'd gripe that no women worked at the gay-friendly bar, that Halloween he dressed up as the Mad Hatter.

Hazel Smith, of New York City, called Brown "incredibly inappropriate" — eliciting knowing guffaws from Brown's friends — "but a good guy." The two became pals when Smith lived in Jersey City and was struggling with some personal issues. She would "hide out" at Pint, she said.

"He gave me a lot of peace when I was going through a lot of heartache," Smith said.

Authorities began searching for Brown in the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug. 6, after a man spotted an unattended sailboat with its motor running floating in the water at Liberty Harbor Marina. Authorities say Brown, whose body was recovered the next day, suffered a head injury before falling into the water. His death was classified as accidental.

Brown was buried Thursday morning at Rosedale Cemetery in Orange. Friends who attended described it much like the Pint memorial: a celebration of his life, with many jokes and little crying. Brown died what he loved doing best, they said.

"Here's to Roger," Moses Jones said as he raised a glass inside Pint, "who is now sailing in the skies."


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 11:55 am 
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Bozo had 19M P+ Points and is #954 on the top 1000 list as of today.

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