so i clicked on it and it said frank sidebottom dead.ht, well, why would chris -- who was the person behind frank, would kill off frank, and i realized he was actually dead. he had died at 51 of throat cancer. and, in fact, just before he died he posted onto twitter a photograph of himself having undergone chemotherapy. [laughter] and anyway, the next day, the next day there was an article in the newspaper saying that he had died penniless and was going to be buried in a poor perp's grave, and i thought what does that mean? like a journey back in time 200 years? so i said on twitter, that's a few thousand pounds he could be spared. by the end of the day, over a thousand people had donated 21,000 pounds which was more than enough to bury and exhume and rebury him half a dozen times. [laughter] and then somebody else on twitter started a fundraising campaign for a show like frank sidebottom cast in bronze to be up at his village. and he sent me, you know and again on social media we raised the money for this. it was a wonderful thing kindn