Kiss the Sky

Your brother looked a lot like Richard Nixon.

I am touched and truly sorry,man.The thought of losing my brother is unfathomable.Shooting his meep into orbit=priceless.

STAY TUNED!

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I've seen that picture of your 'brother' on stock photo sites and inside wallets at drugstores.

Oh wow, meeping meep power move

I thought it was Richard Nixon.

Why would they put Nixon inside wallets?

Why not. He's not a crook.

"I've seen that picture of your 'brother' on stock photo sites and inside wallets at drugstores."

Bullmeep. That's him in 1997 at Karen Stoekel's wedding. I have dozens of pictures of him, none of which are wallet/online shots. Watch the meeping BBQ video...there's about two dozen of them right under his box of ashes, from his childhood years through his teens and middle age.

I would really appreciate it if you didn't meep all over this like everything else. I believe there's more to you than that.

Here he is with me and my son that lives in Texas in '08 at my Mother's 75th birthday party. You won't find any of us in YOUR wallet.

That picture's fake, man. Someone photoshopped the wallet model in. (Fairly decent job of it, btw.)

I believe there's more to you than that.

This sly attempt to manipulate me by pretending to appeal to my better nature has failed because there is not more to me than that... apart from the uncanny ability to spot even diabolically clever photoshop jobs on the Internet.

well, in his defense, i think its fair to assume that someone broke into the database and changed the url to a less than perfect picture, and I'm sure wotak would like to know why

yea im recycling jokes

in a funeral thread

at least you got to honor his wishes the best you could though.

It sounds like a good final way to go though, good on you for fulfilling you bro's wishes.

when they shoot your ashes up into the sky beachgoat, I predict an acid rain will fall for 2 months.

That's cool of you to go to the effort, especially in the face of opposition or at least no assistance.

Far as I'm concerned, it wouldn't matter to him if you mixed his ashes in gunpowder for shooting rockets at condors. What matters is respecting his wishes and the memory of your brother. I've still not had anyone close to me die (but I'm waitin'), but it seems like it's all more important to the living(or not) than those who are gone. I mean dead don't want, unless they entrust you to take care of something they left behind. Anyway, good for you for trying to do right by him.

I thought it was dang considerate of him to write everything down, twice, in two different notebooks several years apart (he had another kid, divorce, etc), plus he was open about it during a few of our mountaintop and remote beach "Wizardly Enhanced" experiences (verified later in "daylight").

He left a notebook with about twenty pages of stories from his misspent youth, and a "Will" of sorts, asking to have his ashes spread in specific spots, and other stuff like that. I tried to follow everything I could, and take care of his kids. He also left a page for my sister Mom, and me, clipped to his calendar from last year. He knew he was about to blow up.

I have told my closest (wife, sons, daughter) what I want done, but nothing is in writing, and this has taught me that I'd better write meep down, because otherwise, everybody will argue over what they think you wanted. Even with paper, I ran into "Well, we don't know when he wrote that!" when it was clipped onto his December 2008 calendar. This has taught me that you gotta write this meep down.

My youngest Son once asked me, "Hey, Dad, when you die, will it meep you off if I sell all your meep?'

"What makes you think you're getting it?"

Write it down. I don't want to be the only thing on the BBQ. And No Snivelers!

Bullmeep. That's him in 1997 at Karen Stoekel's wedding. I have dozens of pictures of him, none of which are wallet/online shots. Watch the meeping BBQ video...there's about two dozen of them right under his box of ashes, from his childhood years through his teens and middle age.

Wow, that is a lot of detail and effort given to prove the existence of a fictitious person and hoodwink all of us. What are you trying to accomplish?

Here he is holding my Granddaughter. That better be my brother, or the Nixon Family just has a relative misplaced.

s'cuse me while I kiss this guy

Good on ya for being the only one with guts enough to honour your brothers wishes, to the best of your ability. you're a lucky guy to have had such a good brother, and apparently it's mutual. Well done.

Jesus, are people still falling for this gag?

Awesome prank Beachgoat

"The original content was a bright red phosphorus type distress flare, but that was removed, and about six ounces of the best Best Brother I ever had fit right in."

Awesome.

I miss my wallet brother. I came home after he died last Thanksgiving because they couldn't bury him until Spring. He's buried at Elmenldorf AF Base in Anchorage. We're going next summer to say Hi to him and maybe take in a little salmon fishing out in the Gulf.

http://www.youtube.com/v/QEDdoRj5nv0?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1

Did the last of his ashes on the mountain we climbed as kids, as per his wishes, on the 5th of September...within a year of his death (Sept 20th, last day of summer). I feel that whole thing is closed, now.

That's nice. I miss him, but I've done my part.

Amen.

Bye Brother. Love you

Goat

Who are you addressing? He's dead, right?

Sometimes journals house prayers.

Who are you addressing? You don't have a prayer.

You're a good man,honoring your brother that way, Beachgoat.

What makes him a good man? Honestly, I'd like to know.

If you accept that he 'honors' his brother by posting about him on a website--then you must accept everyone who does not 'dishonors' their bereaved.

Beachgoat or anyone who indulges in these type of posts---- do you write them to share your loving memories with your audience or are you trying to communicate with the dead? I honestly would like to know so I can start doing the right thing by my dead loved ones.

I guess the deeper issue is: DO YOU BELIEVE IN EVEN ACKNOWLEDGING PEOPLE THAT DIE BECAUSE, SERIOUSLY, THEY ARE NOT meepING HERE.

"If you accept that he 'honors' his brother by posting about him on a website--then you must accept everyone who does not 'dishonors' their bereaved. "

What sort of thinking is this? No disrespect implied, I have read this post for 3 days and I still don't understand. What are you asking?

Yes, I'm confused now too. WHO IS TALKING TO A DEAD PERSON AND WHO IS NOT? AND WHEN.

I would like to ask everyone who is posting to clearly define when they are addressing a dead person by using this identifier before and after every post (to a dead person) : .

:Yo, Elvis! What's up, man?:

Just trying out the new protocol.

: Dear Mommy Cat,

I would like to say I miss you. I'm glad linkswarm has provided a way for me to talk to you again. Are you healthy now in the afterlife? Is there such a thing as 'healthy' in heaven? I hope heaven is overrun with vermin. I hope you're happy.

I love you, Mommy Cat.

Slippedhole

You forgot the after-colon.

Part of my grieving process is sharing. I also talk to myself, drink heavily, eat to excess, and have other, more unsightly behaviors. Bottom line is that it probably only helps me, which is rather selfish, but I would hope that by example, it would help others who have lost their loved ones to find a way to honor their dead and find some relief from the pain and loss. I think the whole "manikin in a box ticket to Jeebus" meep is the most horrible thing EVER, and helps nobody but the assholes who are lining their pockets with the money from the poor shell-shocked families of the dead.

This is what worked for ME. Arnie's meeping GONE. He wrote down what he wanted, but he wouldn't know if I dropped him in a septic tank or let a hippo snort him at the zoo. What I did was to put MY MIND at rest. I have no illusions about that. I just hope that by sharing my process, somebody else can find their own way to get through loss easier.

I started a forum to talk to the Dead. Hope that works. I've got some meepers that need talking to.

I hope they don't eat yr brains.

Sorry for your loss man, good on you for doing this. Show some of these cold hearted meeps in here what its like to love family. @BeachGoat