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Subject:Re: John Wallace - save messages for him
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:13:17 +1200

>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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