A Day's Silence In Memory Of Mikey4444

[anotheoldgit]

I am so devastated over the news of the death of Mikey, that I will no longer be posting on AB today.

More of a day's silence one might say.

RIP Mikey old chap.

[Jahulaye]

“It's a family on AB. We don't always get on but we like each other nonetheless.”

Spot on ummm, we make bonds and friends online and like real life, miss them when they’re not there/gone.

[Kathyan]

yogi, that brought a tear to my eye, a fitting tribute. x

[jambutty]

I've just logged in and seen this thread - mikey's dead ??? When, what, how ??? How sad, how very sad.

RIP dear mikey x

[MargoTester]

Jambutty - see the 'sticky' post on CB. 'Dreadful news - warning

[jambutty]

I've just seen it, thank you Margo.

[DTCwordfan]

Hey one thing, if you had met mikey, no way would he have been silent!

[Jahulaye]

Dtc, what was Mikey like in real life?

[DTCwordfan]

Verbose, politically very left, reasoned though, considerate (I am sure because he was always concerned about others be it family, friends or even the AB community ("Tell me what is minty like in real life, how about mazie or pixie - what about boaty?"So a person who was always wanting to get to know folk under the skin - he used to telephone me frequently......be it for the above or 'what do you think of (name the political or economic situation).

Curious about things and loved to read, never mind listening to the radio and es. the Archers........from BT man to market research, opera lover, boaty cake lover (recipes exchanged there), Indian curry lover, stubborn (as minty will more than testify) as his family had been on at him to get his heart and plumbing sorted out (I had too the last couple of times that I met him)...but that was mikey.

]Also, he was seriously overweight, probably by a clear 5 stone and that was part of his undoing, it must be said......

I met him a few times at pubs down here for lunch and a couple of drinks - obviously met Willy too.....Mikey had a caravan down near St Just and loved Cornwall and the West Penwith area (around St Just/Lands End and west of Penzance/St Ives. He also loved where he lived and the chance to escape into those Welsh mountains....

Visually, quite like his Avatar - which is, of course, one of his past heroes.

And, of course, he adored Willy and was fearing the next trip to the vets as he knew that Willy's days were seriously numbered.

[keyplus90]

Sad news and my prayers are for him and his family.

[woofgang]

"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him/her that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let him/her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her/his eyes, that those photons created within her/him constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith. Let them know that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly".

Aaron Freeman

[DTCwordfan]

woof, that will put me to sleep for a day!

[keyplus90]

Woof, I know this neither the time nor the place but could you please ask any of the scientists if they can give a definitive answer whether or not Aspirin and alcohol are good for human? Why go into gimmicks of the universe and instead solve a common known, day to day problem once for ever.

[rockyracoon]

Woofy, I think that’s lovely.

[kvalidir]

Oh really Keyplus, you know it's not the time or the place, have some decorum :(

AOG I think this is a lovely idea, I tried to come on to post earlier but I just didn't have the heart either. Poor Mikey :(

[Baldric]

Keyplus90, go away come back with your own OP.

[Jackdaw33]

He will be sadly missed. I used to love winding him up about Trump and UKIP. Alas, no more.

[woofgang]

keyplus, if god made the universe, she made scientists and the laws of physics too.

[Zacs-Master]

DT, thanks for that little insight to Mikey. Thanks also to AOG for the kind thought and respectful gesture.

Woof’s physiscist post is strangely comforting.

[woofgang]

ZM, I thought it was too.