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
>