Much as we were loath to lose Nelda/Cheers from this earth, we still wanted to give her a royal clown send-off. Her family in South Texas held their memorial service for her at 2 p.m. CST and we timed our celebration to parallel theirs.

Even though our celebration was on the internet, people really got involved in it and in their memories of personal experiences with Cheers. As the administrator said, no more tears today, just joy in celebrating Cheers’ life and blessings to us.

It was a fun time, held on the island of DUNFRETTIN (get the meaning there?) which is the place to forget sorrow and problems. It has sand and beaches, palm trees and mild breezes, with native staff to take care of food and refreshment. The good ship S.S. Imagination left the pier every 5 minutes to carry everyone to the celebration. We’ll be waiting for anyone who cares to join us there..

The theme of the day was Clowns (what else) and balloons figured predominantly in the posts. Also important were individual recollections:

DK “I think everyone here can remember all the times I was trying to explain how a program or something works. Cheers would get on me and say keep it simple for us simple folks. I would e mail her pictures & descriptions of how a program would install or how to do something in a program & she would e-mail me back saying HUHHHH We had a lot of fun going back & forth with explanations. I was glad I could make her last year a HAPPY year”

ARM: “Let the celebration begin.

Maybe these are Birthday balloons but it is the celebration of the birth of Cheers in a different life. Chloe, to your list of things about Cheers we should add all the jokes we had to explain to her. It was fun trying to confuse her.”

CHLOE: ” Wish I had kept a list of all the “Cheerisms”. Between the malapropisms and the bad spelling there were times I was laughing so hard just about fell off my chair! Know some of it was deliberate on the part of Cheers because she knew darn well that somebody would come back (often myself) with a smartas* comment. So the first graphic is to say THANK YOU!”

 

Finally, let us give Cheers the send-off she deserves

Saying goodbye …

 

Now the balloons rising to the heavens to say: Well Done Cheers

 

 

 

GOODBY DEAR FRIEND… WE SHALL MISS YOUR WISDOM, HUMOR AND LOVE.