We can always bump up old threads if carrying on becomes too difficult. Like those "Ask Christina" threads. I liked those. The thing about monkey that nobody can replace is his uncanny ability to creep up the kind of one liners and cutting observation s that are normally part of a shtick, like james's racing thought botlenecking, as great as james is. Monkey was always remained laidback, a comforting presence, never labored. Everybody else around here huffs and puffs to varying effect, accept for loopnode, who is another sort of lifeforce though wildly different from the monkey. I hope the monkey comes back. I will miss the monkey if he don't come back.