For the folks on the Group W bench.

[gurdymonkey]

Yeah, you over there. Playing with the pencils and having ideas you actually think are funny.

Maybe you weren't here last year. Read it, please.

I wasn't joking then. I'm not joking now.

You want to honor someone when he's gone, do it in a way that is true to who the person truly is. 

If you bothered to get to know me in life, you would know how to do that.  You'd know what songs I like because you actually paid attention while I was here. You would know better than to use me as an exercise of Your Bard-icky Chops to churn out an Ode To Gurdymonkey.*  You would know what should be in your glass** when you raise it in my name.

I shouldn't have to leave instructions. No one should.

"Here's to gurdymonkey, she was a cast iron pain in the ass!" 

You have to admit it has a certain charm.

*I pray that the perpetrators of a four part polyphonic "Potato Skins" paean have long since forgotten it. I don't THINK any of them read my LJ....

**"Mango Margarita" is not a phrase uttered in the halls of heroes.....