Raptor has a long history of concocting jokes which amuse some people and infuriate others. Believe me. He has few scruples and no more self-control or patience than a hungry squirrel trying get into a birdfeeder. I could tell stories...but I won't. :-)

Well, I have had lunch in the Afterlife and it was exactly like lunch used to be in the regular life, except that I got 3 pieces of lemon for my tea, because I finally took the initiative and ASKED for 3 pieces. Good stuff. I may have learned something in all those years after all!

Rombos Restaurant in heaven is exactly like Rombos Restaurant in Orillia. Same grundgy ceiling tiles. What a disappointment! Perhaps I have gone instead to purgatory or to some minor Buddhist hell or something. The liver and onions was good, though.

Peter, thanks for that wonderful little Star Trek vignette. I hate to think of William Shatner having to soldier on without his most loyal fan to sing his praises here on Mudcat Cafe, but I know that he would be able to manage. He would rise to the occasion magnificently. I can think of no person more fitting to eulogize my passing than the mighty Admiral Kirk. He does memorial scenes wonderfully. Bring to mind his very moving oration at the funeral of Spock, for example, in "The Wrath of Khan". Woof!

Major Nigel West - I am touched by your concern. I likewise hope that when you meet your untimely demise (most likely at the hands of Iraqi insurgents) that all those who dearly loved you and were willing to overlook your numerous character flaws will pool their meaager resources and see that a fitting memorial is erected over your tomb, such as a little plastic statue of the female figure "Brittania", naked from the waist up, and bearing a hauntingly similar resemblance to either Penelope Rutledge or Penelope Cruz, with the inscription "Cuckolded, yes, but not forgotten..."