The young (or relatively young) die good.

They don't have the time the rest of us do to cock-up any good we may have done.

Rick has passed the first requirement of sainthood in that he is dead but I am quite sure that he will find much of the waxing lyical about thim in this thread highly embarrasing and have a good laugh at it.

But if Rick really was thought by some to be the best example of how to behave on our forum - the best tribute that they can make to him would be to try and follow that example.

In my view - from the many public and personal exchanges that I had with him - Rick was no saint but was as human as the rest of us - but all the better for being so.

But Rick died before the worst effects and excesses of the trigger-happy and anonymous Mudcat posse and their edit buttons got to work in clearing up the town, creating more mess and our limiting essential freedoms in the process. I wonder what he is thinking of the way and extent that this silliness is defended?

Would he think it decent? I think not.........