LeRex recently made a thread about Clive Harris (aka: Bill Shipton to many of us): https://umd.net/forums/12-years-still-missed

The response shows the amount of people that loved his work, enjoyed his humor, and miss him dearly. We are gearing up to shoot a silly business suited sploshing that is in the spirit of the old Splosh! shoots. Thinking of using the name "Bill Shipton" as the imaginary boss. Do other members on the board that remember him think that is ok? We used Splosh! magazines as props in our silly wedding sploshing ( https://umd.net/profile/i/jd-and-messy-andi/section/videos/video/a-sploshing-wedding ), but never mentioned him by name. And in case anyone cares, this will probably be Andi's outfit for the sploshing

-JD

If all else fails, call him Shill Bipton.

I think he would have appreciated "Shill Bipton" as long as the character was true to Bill's original ethos

The name Bill Shipton is like the name Santa Claus.

Both are character names that brought us great gifts .

Bill was very good friends with the owners of cult British cartoon magazine "Viz". There was an in joke that whenever they needed to draw a pervert, it always looked like Bill.

Bill also loved his play on words fitting for his risqué end of the pier humour!!!

Shill Bipton it is! Thank you for all the replies

-JD