Maybe "John Wallace's body lies a mouldrin' in the grave" and he won't be back... Apologies to whoever wrote the original abolitionist song. Jim On Jul 29, 2005, at 12:13 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote: >> A week of Fridays. OK. I was sitting here reading the digest form >> of the >> list, chuckling at the clever ideas for John Wallace Day: songs, >> poetry, >> calendars, etc., when I clicked on the link to the new John Wallace >> badge. >> Hot coffee spewed from my mouth involuntarily as I gasped with >> laughter. >> Now folks, this could be serious. Had I not been wearing my >> heavy-duty, >> all-purpose canvas work pants, I might have been badly burned. >> >> I propose a set of what we unfortunates who work for the govt. call >> "IWDs" >> or "Integrated Work Documents", which lay out all the possible things >> that >> could go wrong, and the steps needed to prevent and/or deal with such >> happenings. We could call them "Integrated Wallace Documents" and we >> could think up every conceivable mishap that could occur as a result >> of >> getting "John Wallaced". I am willing to work on any committee set >> up to >> identify and deal with such possible negative consequences. >> >> Maggie >> '85 Westaru "Anne Bonney" > > Man oh man, is that wally ever going to be embarrassed when he gets > back! > > To that end, how about someone saving every John Wallace message in a > John Wallace mailbox, then when he eventually returns (he could be > paged by the list to see if he's back) every one of these messages > could be forwarded to him, so he doesn't miss a single one. > -- > Andrew Grebneff > Dunedin > New Zealand > Fossil preparator > <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> > Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut > |
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