That is such sad news.

I really dont know what else to say.

My very best hopes & wishes to you & yours.

sorry to hear of your plight Stimpy. Really hope to see you back here soon.

and pray you have a successful operation. I have always regarded you as one of the regulars and you seem to have been on here forever. A bloody awful disease that seems to be all around us - my dad has bowel cancer and my brother in law had prostate cancer 5 years ago that hasn't gone away by any stretch of the imagination. I think this is exactly what this blog is for so bollocks to anyone who disapproves. All the best Stimpy.

We're rooting for you (I don't mean that in the Australian sense, btw).

..

Take care mate. Sending out all the positive vibes I can. Awaiting some more pictures of analogue synth-porn on your triumphant return in a few weeks.

All good wishes for a successful outcome

or should that be Clapton bless?

All the very best.

I can only really reiterate what others have already said. Hope the outcome is as good as can be.

...you're a brave man, and stoic too. My fingers are crossed.

All the best, Stimpy.

We're thinking of you.

Come back soon.

Hope to see you back here soon

As others have already said, wishing you all the best Stimpy.
Looking forward to your return here :-)

We look forward to seeing you back here soon.

So sorry to hear that. Will be thinking of you.

Please give the cancer a bloody big headbutt and get back here soon soon soon.

Much love
Hannah xxx

and heapings of good luck.

x

Give that cancer a kicking it won't forget, and report back here pronto, sir x

Hoping to see you in the virtual flesh at the Aspidistra and Hatstand so we can all buy you a round when you've slayed this dragon!
My very best wishes to you and your family.

Jeez Stimpers just back from a quick pint (or two) to see this so feeling a bit tired and emotional...give the bastard a good whack like a recalcitrant snare drum at the end of an extended jam on Freebird and come back and give us a proper drum roll triumphant reentry. This fucker has taken too many of my nearest and dearest recently. Give it 'ead butts.

I'm sure we'll see you back here soon ;-)

You're a class act, fella.
El Hombre will certainly open the Aspidistra up for you, because you're going to need a stiff drink when you recover after that op. First one's on me.

Oh, and have an up arrow. Forget the posting guidelines as to what an arrow is for - on this post, my friend, it's a little blue good luck totem, imbued with our heartfelt good wishes.

Stimps

Bob is in self imposed exile but sends his very very best to add to all the above.

toast the best of British luck you deserve and look forward to your swift return to our fold. Get well soon, mate.

It's all been said already by people far more eloquent than I, but dammit I hope everything goes well and you come back soon...

Looking forward to many more.
All the best,
Adam.

See you back here soon x

I'm sure you can beat this. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

you'll be back to raise a glass at the Aspidistra with us.

All the very best.

to you and your family. See you soon!!

Attitude counts for a lot. Dig in, bear down and get yourself back here toot-sweet!

Best of luck and I hope we see you back here soon.

............ we're ALL with you !

from me too, my virtual friend. Still hoping to have a pint with you presently so don't do anything untoward. Here's hoping.

...no two ways about it. And then you'll tell us all about those pretty nurses.

Best to you, my friend.

Not a decision any of us would ever wish to make. MY thoughts go out to you, Stimpychild. Thought I'd reiterate the well wishings of all here. I really do pray you'll be back here in no time. You will be missed.

I look forward to providing you a glass of good cheer on your triumphant return to the Aspidistra & Hatstand. All very best wishes and positive vibes going your way.

And I also look forward to more of your synth porn

Give that C a sound thrashing and get back to rude health as soon as.

and I look forward to your post-op update.

positive thinking your way Stimpy as you battle this fecker. Good luck and best wishes to you and your family xx

other than I know I'll be thinking of you on and off over the next few weeks and hoping you'll be back here soon.

Hurry back to us.

Good luck man, I'll cross everything for you.

In fact, I'll cross everything for you TWICE.

Best of luck and hope to see you posting here again soon.

I hope everything goes well for you in hospital and that you'll be soon be back out in the wonderful world of the internet.

and sincerely hope to see you back annoying the Word massive very soon x.

Love from afar...

Fingers and all other appendages crossed for you old boy.

See you back here soon

Wishing you all the very best and looking forward to your return.....

....prove the doctors wrong..eh!

Good luck. Thinking of you a lot.

Hope to be reading more
posts from you soon.

Awful news Stimpy. Here's wishing you all the best. Hope to see you back on here asap. Best wishes

Let's see you post here again soon eh?

more except to wish you the best of luck and I look forward to seeing you back on the blog in the near future.

I don`t really know you Stimpy, read your posts here, but I admire your calmness and bravery, good luck my friend and stay strong.

Get back here soon

You're in the best hands I'm sure. All the best.

Everything above.

Good luck mate.

print this whole thread out and take it with you - all these good wishes surely have some real medical benefit!

See you back on the thread soon, mate.

Sure we will speak again

my thoughts and prayers

And looking forward to your post-surgery posts!

get it beaten soon and get yourself back here soon as you can.

I salute your courage, and I toast to your health,
and I wish you all the luck in the whole wide world

I feel I must add my good wishes too. I have a drink and I raise it to toast you. Your posts often cut through the crap and add a refreshing dose of wisdom and good humour.

Get yourself back here soon

I very much look forward to your next posts. Keep on keeping on... x

Hope it all goes your way.

That must mean double good luck.

except good luck.
Take care
Dave

and the Stimpettes. See you soon.

is exactly right.

We'll see you next time in the Aspidistra & Hatstand as per usual.

Tsk. Honestly. Some people will do anything to avoid standing their round.

All the best Stimpy, hope it all goes well!

and just remember, Stimps. You'll always be my favourite.

and we'll all be here waiting for you. Donna sends big hugs & many kisses.

may you be happy, may you be safe
All good to you and yours

This place won't be the same without you. Get well and get back here soon.

All the very best,

Patrick

as Nile Rodgers from Chic calls it. And he beat it.

Thoughts with you.

Hearfelt best wishes, fella. A manly, but not too firm, virtual hug from me :-)

I'll raise a glass the next time I'm in 'the office' (i.e. the pub).

...thoughts and cyber good vibes to you & the family.

Just beat the bastard and get back here..OK! .Love and best wishes to you and your family

and hope to have you back here soon.

See you back in these parts soon, sir.

and hurry back, I'm looking forward to you posting again in a few weeks.

hope to hear from you soon.

but all the best Stimpy. Get back here soon.

Buddy, you're clearly facing all this with admirable courage and dignity. You have my respect and I wish you all the very best.

Neil

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Can't add anything else to what has already been said - your post is bloody inspirational.
Get well soon

...good luck, Stimpy.

and all the best for the future.

Can't really add to all the thoughts above other than wish it all comes good for you.
Hope to read your contributions soon.

Stimpy.
This place would be a poorer place without you. Some people get through it, hope you're one of them.

You are a legend around here. Stay strong.

All the WORD mob will be pulling for you. See you back here soon.

All the very best, mate.

Rooting for you old bean

Good luck, Stimpy

Looking forward to hearing from you when you get back.

In the meantime, all the best for the road ahead.

I have always enjoyed your posts - you are smart, funny and thought provoking. I look forward to reading more of the same when you return. My very best wishes. Lee.

Hope you make it to Tonopah.

.

Really looking forward to your first post on your return.

Because you will

Every good wish
Beezer

Brave person you are Stimpy. Hats off to you and look forward to reading your next post.

Hoping it goes well and that you make a good recovery.

Specs

Best wishes, Stimpy, for a successful operation and speedy recovery.

What a brave post and what a brave person you are. I hope it goes okay in hospital and hope to see you back on here very soon.

You're one of the most popular members on here, and with good reason. Here's hoping you're back behind the wheel of the landie in no time at all, with The Smiths emphatically not on the stereo!

All the best x

Just adding my own best wishes to all the others - that so many people felt compelled to add their thoughts here speaks volumes for you.
Get Well Soon.

You probably won't see this until your return. But the very best of luck to you, and looking forward to you getting back on here.

Give it a wallop, son.

average Harry very insignificant. Wishing you all the strength you need to fight through it. Looking forward to your return in due course.

No Black Muddy River, No So Many Roads, No Black Peter.

Help > Slip > Franklin's > Come back soon.

in the fucking nuts and get yourself back here sharpish

I *heart* Stimpy. Now get back for a manly hug asap.

You're stimply the best.

winging to you all the way from Toronto.....

very best.

Looking forward to your next post, and many, many more after it.

post Stimpy but still you can fill it with your usual good humour.

I'm sure that attitude will help tip the odds in your favour, I'll be waiting for your next post!

All the best

Steve

you'll be posting on here again before you know it, and all your friends will be waiting to welcome you back.
may the four winds blow you safely home.

..from a Stag weekend, a reduced version of the paintball and lager frenzy I've endured in the past, just me, a very old friend and my only brother. It reminded me of how valuable friends and family are, hugely so, and coming home and reading that only serves to confirm the fact. Your posts have been a vital part of this uniquely appealing corner of cyberspace and I'm sincerely hoping that they'll continue for a long time yet. Best of luck Stimpy, we're thinking of you and yours.

of luck to you in your current circumstances.
Sending you positive thoughts and hoping to see you back again soon "Right As Rain"

and expect it to be heralded by a blast from one of these

Get well very soon.

I'm sure you will pull through.

I'd smuggle something 3G in with you. I suspect the stuff about interfering with machinery is rubbish.

Best wishes

... Stimpy ol' son!

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

My best wishes to you. All available appendages crossed

good luck

Hope it all goes well.

I've got five weeks of radiotherapy around the beginning of October, to zap the remains of a pituitary tumour.

Positive thinking, Stimps, positive thinking.

Good luck, mate.

I've always enjoyed your posts and I hope that you will soon be sharing your wit and erudition with us again. Here's to a speedy recovery.

Best of luck and see you back here as soon as possible.

I'm sure we'll be seeing you again real soon, you seem to have been round here forever, so not away to long eh x

or, in other words, best wishes Stimpy.

What can I say that hasn't been said above? Good luck Stimpy and may our collective fight see you through this.

.... to you and yours, Stimpy old man; give it hell, and my thoughts and prayers are with you all the way....

for the op and look forward to seeing you back on here very soon.

Only joking - your posts have certainly entertained me and l wish you nothing but the best (unless you owe me money)

I wanted to ask you about that book that details all the gear the HJHs ever used ... so you'd better get back here soon. All the best for the next few weeks.
Steven

You take of yourself and get back here right away , sir. Cos I want that tour jacket.

the hundreds of messages of support you've recieved already. Good luck, and conquer the bastard.

Tom

Very sorry to hear that news.
Hope all goes well for you.

and a fast and full recovery.

good luck and best of British
take care
chris

Love every good moment, Stimpy. We're with you.

Wishing you all the best Stimpy

bundle of good wishes coming your way from me.

See you in the Aspidistra
x

losing her voice.

Fingers tightly crossed here. My sister has just been told that there is nothing more to be done for her.

I hope you give the bastard a good kicking.

Every cancer is different but back in May 1985 I had a similar chat with a surgeon;

In my case the chemo wasn't working so the options were either surgery or hope for the best.Not a hard choice but in my case I felt much better moving forward after I sorted out some unresolved differences with a close relative.If you have any outstanding disputes then please make an effort to sort them out before the IV lines and everything else kicks in.

I'm sure you have been through similar conversations over the past couple of weeks and my heart goes out to you.Stay positive because really there isn't any option.

I alway look out for your posts as you've always been a source of wry self deprecating posts. I'm not the only one around here looking forward to your return.

God Bless.

Mate,just hope all goes well.Our thoughts are with you and Sebastian has said everything i wanted to in his last 2 paragraphs but much more eloquently.take care.
Paul and Maria Elena aka Mr and Mrs Crout.

and look forward to your next thread of self regarding nonsense.

All the best.

And I mean that genuinely.

Nothing but positivity. Stay strong.

Best wishes

Cheers matey.

Looks like you have to get a massive round in for all your wellwishers when you get back to the Hatstand matey. Best of Irish luck to you (furiously rubbling rabbit foot on Leprechaun...)

Best of luck

Stay strong, and hope to see you back here talking bollocks like the rest of us.

All the best to you and your family.

that this is just a ploy to get the most 'ups' ever. I'm late posting, so you better bloody get back home safely to read this. Good wishes, hopes and finger-crossing to you and yours.

That ain't no self-regarding nonsense.
That is the most dignified, self-restrained, quietly bloody heroic and moving post I have seen here.I hope those doctors read The Word so they know who they're dealing with.
We're all with you, ain't no fat lady here either
See you later

I just read your post and I'm reeling a bit. I've always been an admirer of what you say on here and how you say it. I'm hoping to have a moment when I can jump and punch the air in delight: when I see your next post.
Keep on keeping on pal.

Good luck Stimpy.

Will be praying for you.x

(Great username) - I'm late posting as well, so you'lll see this on your return, having kicked that sucker in the nadgers...

All the best of British, old fruit. You WILL return, or I will Have Words.

Take it easy, Zarir (man.of.soup) xx

Get your arse back here soon. You hear?

We'll hold your coat while you give it a sound kicking and await your return to the Word-o'sphere.

Take it easy Stimpy and good luck!

very soon to where you'll always belong.

The very best of luck, Stimpy.

I just went from listening to the Danny Baker podcast to opening the Word blog and saw this news. Please God you will have DB's good fortune with the bastard C.

All the very best, Stimpy.

to what's been already said above really. I've always regarded you as one of the good guys on this little corner of the Internet and am truly hoping you return.

All the best, stimpy.

and we wish you all the best

Does anyone know how to find out how the op goes?

Bless you brother. Our collective love goes with you always.

Genuinely thinking of you, and hope all goes well. And if they offer you homeopathy, tell them to Fuck Off.

Good luck, Stimpy, and my thoughts are with you.

My mother-in-law has just been in hospital for her third operation in two years, including two life-saving emergency ops, and I have the greatest sympathy for anybody facing a serious procedure.

I can fully imagine the stress and anxiety faced by everybody at Chez Stimpy, and I hope everything goes really well.

Wishing you all the best. See you back here soon auld son.

Kev

good wishes expressed here work, you'll outlast the lot of us! All the very best to you, see you later.

Keep that pecker up.

If you think there is a lot of replies on this thread, wait and see the number when you return!

Take care.

you're clearly a brave chap so as said before good luck!

Everything crossed for you.

You've never met me. But believe me, after I read your post this morning, I have been thinking about you all day. All the crap about bravery in fighting cancer is crap. But that post, THAT is bravery.

I love reading your posts, and I hope to see many many more of them.

You're stronger than you know and with the massed good vibes of the Massive behind you, you'll be back on your feet in no time. Sending you love and strength.

to infinity. Everyone will be thinking of you.

To the first three more from Stimpy a little later.

Martin

you are going to be missed for a couple of weeks but we WILL see you back here.

My thoughts are with you.

Hope to see you back here soon. Good luck.

but get well soon Stimpy.

Looking forward to seeing you back on here soonish.

Everyone here is pulling for you.

mental attitude thing licked, now just go and kick the big C in the nuts - Good Luck

Best wishes mate.

All best wishes, mate.

and all that.

I'm new to the site and just read some of your back catalogue ... those sort of musings are why I joined tbh. Come back soon :-)

.. your post. You may not see it at this point - so I'll send it telepathically too.

Keep your chin up & make a speedy recovery !

Oh & remember - Elephant & Castle - Stick it up your arsehole !

All the best old egg. Show that cancer that you're the boss.

Always loved your posts. Looking forward to the next one from you.

and the Stimpettes. Bless you mate.

.... looking forward to seeing you back on here as soon as!

You'll win through!

What can I say that would be of any use and hasn't already been said? But I'll say it anyway. Good luck and I look forward to seeing you back here soon.

and just came back to see this terrible news.

My thoughts are with you. Come back to us soon!

Promise to take care of it.

Oh, and no back-backers.

from me too

Just beat it!

... And I come back to this !

Best of luck with everything, Stimpy.

Can I have your posts?

I can barely consider myself as a member of this fine board, and though I don't know you (and vice-versa!), I want to wish you the very best of luck in your fight.

Inner strength is a rare & much sought after commodity. I know from posting at similar boards that the sense of community you can find from places such as this can actually forge it. I hope this is the case.

Fight the good fight. I look forward to your story of conquering it.

...just to say how much I'm already missing your "trivia", I'm still getting my head round this so all I can say is get well soon, you'll be missed while you're away.

Best wishes Stimpy.

... hope all goes well.

If somebody who visits Stimpy would be so kind, it would be great to print this and take it to him in hospital.

When I was in intensive care a few years ago, anything that indicated anybody in the outside world even spared a second's thought for me was an unbelievable source of strength and comfort.

There are so many messages on here that maybe somebody else has posted this idea and I apologise, but I'll gladly take the risk of plagiarism this time around.

And I'll pay for the reams of paper and thousands of inkjet cartridges.

Get well soon, Stimpy.

Hope everything works out for you

Get Better and Get Back

All The Best

Just back off a short hoiday so I hope you get to see this before you go in - otherwise all the best, good luck and I very much look forward to you telling me off for my doomy leftism and your enjoyable discursions on Landrovers and drumming

...from indulging myself in the sun and read this. Good luck, brave man x

Hope you beat this.

... minor disappointments into perspective. Good luck, Mate, we're all rooting for you.

But want to echo all the comments - hope the op has gone well.

I rely upon you to find that tangential take on life that often eludes me. I've been out of the country for a while, and missed this thread until my return last night (Twang tipped me off); I wanted you to know I was sending my best thoughts. I'd light some incense, mutter an incantation, consult the crystals and offer up some prayers to something or other, but as neither of us has much time for any of that bollocks, I'll just say Good Luck, and hope to see you back here as soon as you can make it.

But only if you ask nicely.

Hope you're back here soon, having given it a right royal kicking.

May your medical team have skill, empathy and guidance. Keep on drumming, my man.
Non illegitimi carborundum and all that.

Not up to posting regularly yet but I think I've made it through :-)

:-) :-)

In a place that we are destined to return...

keep kicking bottom, son and feel the love

This makes me HAPPY!

fantastic news, welcome back!

Rest properly, eat well and only listen to good music and you will be back in full force in no time.
You can hardly doubt that you're welcome back!

We've been holding our collective breath until your return. We never doubted you would be back. Never mind posting, just feel the love from the messages above. Phew.

I know I'm not the only one who has been watching for news. Even the GLW has been asking after you and she sends her best wishes, even though she thinks I spend too much time on here.

Never been so happy to see a post on t'internet. Welcome back.

In the last few days when I've seen a new post, there has been a sense of trepidation as I clicked it. I'm so pleased this time it's good news.

Rest up and get ready to start posting like a good 'un.

Welcome back!

Glad you're back!

You created quite a stir, you know.

Great to have you back.

xx

(In a very manly way, of course).

Keep fighting man.

So glad you're back.

Glad to have you back old chap

- the sky is black with hats round here!

Now, where do you stand on Srewart Lee?

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So glad to hear that Stimpers. Good for you. get better and keep buying synths! I have an irrational desire to buy a Wasp. Any good? They are stupidly expensive though I remember them coming out and they were cheapo.

Truly excellent. Proper good news.

Got something in my eye now.

Just Hurrah!

Was out of the country when I read your post on my phone, and kept checking back every time we hit wi-fi. Don't trust myself to post from my phone, but hopefully the good vibes from deepest Wyoming got through!

Right, I'm off to the Aspidistra and Hatstand - what are you having?

in fact hurrah cubed

to buggery by that news.

:)

Really excellent news and so pleased to see you back.

I'm seriously considering a Landrover - anything cheap to run (I'm fairly mechanical) you could recommend for a Northumberland winter?

But mainly - GET WELL SOON - that's really relieved me and cheered me up too