...will not be down for breakfast (threads)

[Honda Enoch]

With all the deaths lately, maybe there could be a forum for all these threads.

[Big Wallaby]

An interesting thought, and for many I think it would work. but in some cases, like Roy E. Disney, the DEFINITELY deserve their own thread.

[BRWombat]

With all the deaths lately, maybe there could be a forum for all these threads.

We could call it "The Breakfast Club."

[kurtisnelson]

I vote these just go away.

[darph nader]

I vote these just go away.

Can't stop people from dying kurt,sorry. Be grateful we don't start throwing in non-famous people. Just a bad streak of deaths lately,sad to say. :(

[CujoSR]

I personally feel every one deserves their own thread. I will think about a separate forum though.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I personally feel every one deserves their own thread. I will think about a separate forum though.

Thats not a bad idea, a memorial forum.

[Goofyernmost]

This seems like the right time to say this so, here goes...

I have as dark and foreboding a sense of humor as anyone around and at first I had no objections to the "won't be down for breakfast" series.

Then the monorail thing happened. You guys, and I'm not saying you're wrong here, start to go ballistic every time you perceived someone as not showing the proper respect and concern over YOUR loss. Yet...the won't be down for breakfast lightheartedness continued on for all you had no direct connection with. That always bothered me. Why was it a capital offense for someone to make a "less than mournful" statement concerning the train "wreck" and how they should be punched, drawn and quartered and run from any Disney park for a life time and at the very same time, it was thought of as humorous to make comical statements about someone else's death.

They had families too. Their lives were important to many people. They aren't any less dead then if they had been a Disney CM, are they?

To make it clear...I don't personally have a problem with the "series" but it isn't consistent with the reaction shown when you lost one or two of your own. Let's not be hypocritical about this. That' s all I'm saying.

[Big Wallaby]

I've never heard "will not be down for breakfast" as being disrespectful, and I have never meant disrespect by it. It is how we communicate it in the thread title. I have never seen that and laughed, even with people that I did not necessarily like. If their families came to this board, I don't think they would see disrespect or joking about it at all.

That is a sharp contrast to people who come up on the Monorail platforms, smiling, making crashing motions with their hands (use your imagination) asking how much they could pay us to make it happen again, right now, so they can see it. I can tell a definite difference between what we do and people who were joking about Austin or saying disrespectful things about him (too bad he fell asleep at the controls, etc.). We may show humor about their lives, but not their passing.

Just my friggin' $ .02.

Sorry, I got carried away with that last line. I'm not mad at anyone here... unless Jason Garcia has an account (which I am researching even now, since I have his e-mail address and IP address. I am forever angry at the people who have done and continue to do that sort of thing.

[TdcOgre]

I've never heard "will not be down for breakfast" as being disrespectful, and I have never meant disrespect by it. It is how we communicate it in the thread title. I have never seen that and laughed, even with people that I did not necessarily like. If their families came to this board, I don't think they would see disrespect or joking about it at all.

That is a sharp contrast to people who come up on the Monorail platforms, smiling, making crashing motions with their hands (use your imagination) asking how much they could pay us to make it happen again, right now, so they can see it. I can tell a definite difference between what we do and people who were joking about Austin or saying disrespectful things about him (too bad he fell asleep at the controls, etc.). We may show humor about their lives, but not their passing.

Just my friggin' $ .02.

Sorry, I got carried away with that last line. I'm not mad at anyone here... unless Jason Garcia has an account (which I am researching even now, since I have his e-mail address and IP address. I am forever angry at the people who have done and continue to do that sort of thing.

I agree with Big Wallaby. I don't feel that "...will not be down for breakfast " is in anyway disrespectful. Nor do I think that the CMs here taking umbrage at some of the discussion of the monorail accident is hypocritical. I've never seen a "will not be down for breakfast" thread that in anyway demeans or ridicules the person who has passed away. These are more a way of celebrating the life of that person as well as letting others know of their passing. I've always tried to follow: De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est