Regular readers will know that one of our bloggers, “Adolf Finkensen“, has been battling cancer for the last six months, which includes eating lots of ice cream.
But his Son In Law has just let me know that the ice cream diet is not working:
[H]e smiled and nodded his finger when I said I’d spoken with you and the lads from No Minister. He always sent me blogs and usually called roaring with laughter. It meant a lot to him.
So I thought I would put up this post for anybody who wants to say a few things to him (nutters will of course be excluded), starting with those from current and former No Minister bloggers.
I walked down to the Te Haumi beach and looked out on that incredible vista that you would have seen so many times. Our thoughts and prayers from both Pam and I are with you. Thank you for the invitation to contribute to NM. It’s been an incredible journey and I wouldn’t have missed it for worlds. I envy you as you begin another stage of life’s great journey. For me the old adage that it’s only the good that die young comes into play. 😅😅
Cheers and thoughts
The Veteran
Addie you grumpy old bugger someone says you are in palliative care. Is that an excuse to stop taking the rubbish out or do you just want to give up on the Sunday funnies? They are the highlight of my week. We have not yet met face to face. The first email I can find in my inbox from you is nearly 15 years ago but that appears to be when you were going through a pious but irritable phase and objecting to use of the f word.
Which raises the question are you finkelstein Finkensein or some other F word if you ask some of our past no minister commentatorsI will be in Adelaide around christmas. would be lovely to have a beer.
Just for shits and giggles I bet that most of you did not know that I am closely related to the former Green MP Eugenie Sage. Our politics differ.
Phil
Here’s that email sent to his fellow No Minister bloggers on Mon, 10 May, 2010:
Morning All
In a fit of irritation I’ve taken the liberty of deleting a comment from one Cal Richard’s whose alphabet appears to start at F and end at K. I wonder if he is a reincarnation of Sinner.
I hope you don’t mind but I did ask him to tone it down.
Cheers
Irritable Adolf
And here’s his first post on the old No Minister site, the first post of all in fact, published on June 30, 2007 as the site was born out of the ashes of the even older Sir Humphrey blog:
Caucus Meeting
On the last day of the financial year was held the first caucus meeting of the ‘No Minister Party.’ Both left and right factions were equally represented. Nothing was agreed.
Hey Milt, I feel all funny – using the keyboard again! Many thanks for all your effort. How many hours and how much money did it take to get set up thus far?
I’ll try to give you a call on Monday.
No Minister 
I’ve probably been reading this blog for 15 years, only occasionally comment. I suspect there are a lot like me, who quietly appreciate it. Please pass on to Adolf my thanks for the entertainment over the years.
actually, I found an email to me from Adolf from March 2006! Sir Humphreys, which I assumed pre-dated NoMinister?
Thinking of you, Adolf (same first name as my Swiss grandfather as Adolf was a perfectly good Germanic name in 1910 🙂) and wishing you all the best.
For those who are missing the “Ho, Ho, Ho” posts, visit the Powerline Blog at https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/category/the-week-in-pictures
Adolf, I have been missing the Ho, Ho, Ho posts. I don’t comment much any more, but still lurk in the background.
We’ve never met but have conversed for years under our pseudonyms. We would more than likely pass each other on the street without recognising each other.
Thank you for the years (decades?) of posts, entertainment, and laughs. No Minister has been a home for thinking people of both right and left (come back Milt) and I think the world is richer for it. We’ve not always agreed, and that’s as it should be.
Whilst we will miss you, you’re on for the next adventure of life. I hope we meet in the afterlife so I can thank you personally.
As Winnie the Pooh says: “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever “
Thanks Adolf, you inspired me to have a go and make my small contribution to No Minister.
I loved your wit, your Ho Ho Ho posts were always something I looked forward to every week, and your sharp acerbic comments.
I dont know who will fill the gap here at NM, perhaps no one, and that’s perhaps fitting in itself.
I am not religious but perhaps this bit of poetry says it better, for me anyway
High Flight, Adolf
I’ve always appreciated your contributions here at ‘No Minister’, Adolf.
You always reminded me a lot of my grumpy uncompromising grandfather who I always appreciated and respected.
I miss those ‘Ho Ho Ho’ posts
Trying hard to avoid any of the cliches that you wouldn’t appreciate, and sorry is such a small word in the face of this news. I’ve known you only through your blogging and always appreciated your forthright views, appreciation of good music and the laughter you’ve engendered. There will be a place for you in a heavenly choir and a hole in this blog.
I always remember this one, from the Insolent Prick blog about resident freak commenter Roger Nome.
Adolf Fiinkensein said…
Roger nome seems to have much to say. So he’s a student, you say? You mean not yet a graduate even? Still wet behind the ears? I thought so. What credibilty. What gravitas. And such a serious student. Would that he was studying economics or business or geology or how to copulate with spiders or something useful. But no, he’s just another wasted corpse, chewing up my money studying POLITICAL SCIENCE for fuck’s sake!
There’s nothing scientific about political ‘science.’ Just a load of leftie wankers indulging in mutual self congratulation that they have found a way for being paid to be completely unproductive.
Do they realise that when the Caliphate gets here, they’ll be the first to be shot? After the homosexuals, that is.
Dead shits, the lot of them.7/15/2007 07:20:00 pm
Roger nome? Now there’s a blast from the past.
At that time, 2007, he was banging on about Peak Oil across just about every blog. Here’s my response to the twat about that on Kiwiblog that year.
Fracking seems to have caused him to STFU.