This is a message for Caroll Spinney. I don't know what the Wi-Fi is like where he is now but just in case he searches Google for his name and finds this page…
Mr. Spinney, we never met but I admired your work for a long time. Very few people in this world manage to be responsible for even one beloved, iconic character but you gave us two: Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. And I know you were a humble man and will insist that others created those characters and built them and wrote for them and even assisted you with the physical feats necessary to manipulate them. But they both shared a humanity and a spirit and a sense of humor that could only have come from the warm body inside them. They will live on with talented people doing fine Caroll Spinney imitations but for so many of us, they just won't be the same. Thank you for being so good at what you did. And give our regards to Mr. Hooper.