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It's been mentioned in previous threads, but is it known for real why Mike/Bruce didn't go to the 50th Tour farewell dinner?

To send a message about dumping everybody for the M&B band again.

Was Cowsill also not at the dinner ?    Guessing a true insider is going to have to get you your answer.  We can all surmise however I don't think a lot of the posters really know.  But also guessing that some of these "gut feelings" are right on the mark.

They weren't hungry?

I'm not sure why Mike did, but I know why Bruce did. Mike told him to.

And every post is conjecture.

New conjecture: M&B didn't approve of the uncomfortable seating there.

New New conjecture: the restaurant didn't offer a vegetarian option for Mike. That's gotta be the reason.

Mike was fasting!

Could it have been that the dinner was a Facebook invite only, and the invite inadvertently wound up in Mike's spam folder? It does happen sometimes.

Or maybe he received the Facebook invite, clicked on "Join", but not enough people clicked the "like" button for this action of his, causing him to be offended, and then he changed his reply to "Not Attending". Maybe then it's all Mark Zuckerberg's fault.

Mike fasting would have led to him being led away in a straitjacket.

Do you think anyone would honestly question that Brian's no-show at Mike's ELLA award was motivated by anything *but* sending a message, or basically just out of feeling hurt? C'mon. Yeah, anything could be considered conjecture... But obviously it was for those reasons, just as it should be obvious that Mike's non-appearance had to be influenced by similar reasons. I might add: I can understand how hurt/scorned people often don't show up at events. Understandable. If there's anything to debate, it's perhaps if we feel the respective people's reasoning for feeling the way they feel is off-kilter or not.

They just wanted to skip straight to dessert.  They were spotted at a nearby Dairy Queen at the time.

Considering how many people in that photo are members and post here, and beyond that how many in that photo may not be members but still browse and read this board, I'd say that's simply not true. Unless the only two people in the universe who know why Mike and Bruce did not attend are Mike and Bruce, others who worked with them would know why they did not attend.