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Thread: In Memoriam - Gambit
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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Three years ago today, our brother Gambit shuffled of this mortal coil to join the great shipmeet in the sky.
He was known as "King of the shipmeets" and somehow London meets still don't feel quite the same without him. This evening. I shall be raising a glass in his memory and I invite everyone else who knew him (and even those who didn't) to do the same.
ILM: James Michael Rawling (Gambit)
1978 - 2005
Gone but not forgotten.
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"May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing
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welsh dragon
Shipmate
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May he rest - I was going to say in peace, but his sort of peace would probably be propping up a bar in Heaven having a pint and a laugh with St. Peter. So, may he rest in his sort of peace. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I remember Gambit. He's one of the reasons I love the Ship and most all who sail on her.
Rest in peace.
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Nanny Ogg
Ship's cushion
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Remembering a great shipmate and shipmeet drinking buddy
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Buy me a beer and I'm you friend forever
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Gill H
Shipmate
# 68
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I remember someone posting a description of him sitting at a cafe table in heaven, enjoying a drink and a chat with Miss Molly. I've loved that image ever since.
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*sigh* We can’t all be Alan Cresswell.
- Lyda Rose
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Leetle Masha
Cantankerous Anchoress
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eleison me, tin amartolin: have mercy on me, the sinner
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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I was thinking of him just now too... and we loved his singing voice... and his cooking...
May his family have comfort today and other days.
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Jen.
Godless Liberal
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I shall have a nice whiskey tonight in memoriam.
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Was Jenny Ann, but fancied being more minimal.
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Esmeralda
Ship's token UK Mennonite
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Thinking particularly of Persephone Hazard (one time Eyeliner) at this time.
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I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
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Yangtze
Shipmate
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Me too.
One thing I remember from his funeral was someone saying "he was a man who knew the difference between Kendrick and Parry and didn't care"
The sniping over in Eccles about services that aren't done 'just so' has been getting me down recently - in memoriam Gambit has now served to remind me that I'm not the only one who likes both ways and more besides and that I shouldn't get wound up by such things. See, even from the other side, his spirit lives on.
I'll try and track down a Guinness in his memory this evening.
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moonlitdoor
Shipmate
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I'm afraid it was necessary to post a short extract from that last post in the Ship of Fools Quotes file in the circus.
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We've evolved to being strange monkeys, but in the next life he'll help us be something more worthwhile - Gwai
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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sophs
Sardonic Angel
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![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Auntie Doris
Screen Goddess
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Gambit and eyeliner were the first two shipmates I ever met. I only met him a few times and he was a fantastic guy and much missed at the London shipmeets.
Auntie Doris x
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Ags
Knocked up
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Remembered
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I think that we are most ourselves at our best, because that is what God intended us to be. The us we really like, the us that others love to be with. Moth
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ebeth
Shipmate
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To Gambit
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"To eat bread without hope is still, slowly to starve to death." --Pearl S. Buck
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The5thMary
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
Three years ago today, our brother Gambit shuffled of this mortal coil to join the great shipmeet in the sky.
He was known as "King of the shipmeets" and somehow London meets still don't feel quite the same without him. This evening. I shall be raising a glass in his memory and I invite everyone else who knew him (and even those who didn't) to do the same.
ILM: James Michael Rawling (Gambit)
1978 - 2005
Gone but not forgotten.
Golly, he was young, wasn't he? I just did the math...
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God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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Spiffy
Ship's WonderSheep
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Looking for a simple solution to all life's problems? We are proud to present obstinate denial. Accept no substitute. Accept nothing.
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Rossweisse
High Church Valkyrie
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I'm not dead yet.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
# 36
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quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
Three years ago today, our brother Gambit shuffled of this mortal coil to join the great shipmeet in the sky.
He was known as "King of the shipmeets" and somehow London meets still don't feel quite the same without him. This evening. I shall be raising a glass in his memory and I invite everyone else who knew him (and even those who didn't) to do the same.
ILM: James Michael Rawling (Gambit)
1978 - 2005
Gone but not forgotten.
Golly, he was young, wasn't he? I just did the math...
Too young ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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"May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Missed him in London by just two years. Our own son is just a year younger. I raise a glass of G&T to a fine young man whose posts I read. I am the less for never having met him…
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Ham'n'Eggs
Ship's Pig
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I still have one of his texts on my phone.
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"...the heresies that men do leave / Are hated most of those they did deceive" - Will S
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Ancient Mariner
Sip the ship
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Met his dad at a Ship of Fools Live gig. Lovely man who misses his son
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Ship of Fools' first novel, Rattles & Rosettes, is the tale of two football (soccer) fans: 16-year-old Tom in 1914 and Dan in 2010. More at www.rattlesandrosettes.com
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iGeek
Number of the Feast
# 777
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Fond memories.
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