Comments on: More on service http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/08/27/more-on-service/ "A man needn't go far to find a subject, if he's ready with his salt-box."--Uncle Pumblechook Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:15:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Frothy McBaldman http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/08/27/more-on-service/#comment-1102 Frothy McBaldman Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:17:18 +0000 http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/08/27/more-on-service/#comment-1102 Even so, I think (at best) I would hand a committee member a folder fulla notes and head for the hills. That of course assumes I was feeling gracious at the moment of the hand-off. And eventually I hope to collapse beneath the weight of all my pseudonyms, forcing people to point at me like Donald Sutherland in Invasion Body Snatchers. Even so, I think (at best) I would hand a committee member a folder fulla notes and head for the hills. That of course assumes I was feeling gracious at the moment of the hand-off.

And eventually I hope to collapse beneath the weight of all my pseudonyms, forcing people to point at me like Donald Sutherland in Invasion Body Snatchers.

]]> By: jbj http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/08/27/more-on-service/#comment-1078 jbj Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:05:50 +0000 http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/08/27/more-on-service/#comment-1078 No pseudonym. :-) The thing is, I of course didn't know it was lame duck at the time--it's a retroactive lame-duck sort of thing. *Sigh.* No pseudonym. :-)

The thing is, I of course didn’t know it was lame duck at the time–it’s a retroactive lame-duck sort of thing. *Sigh.*

]]> By: Frothy McBaldman http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/08/27/more-on-service/#comment-1066 Frothy McBaldman Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:42:52 +0000 http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/08/27/more-on-service/#comment-1066 You are a better man than I. Were I asked to assume a lame-duck, make-believe chairmanship for the sake of spinning the wheel so a committee could get its act together, I don't know that I could be quite so civil about it. You are a better man than I. Were I asked to assume a lame-duck, make-believe chairmanship for the sake of spinning the wheel so a committee could get its act together, I don’t know that I could be quite so civil about it.

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