From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Fred Grampp
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:42:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2M-QG7C1-NqRpG1sFo_ONfVR+KVu30G-vcvmgxjrf_Bow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:36 PM Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
> As I remember it, the Facilities folks were so upset about
> someone painting stuff on Their Water Tower that a complaint
> went to Vic Vyssotsky, then Executive Director of Division
> 112 (one step up from Sandy Fraser, who was Director of 1127).
>
> The story was that Vic and/or Sandy told them that there were
> 60 people in the research centre and no way to tell who did it.
>
> Word was then quietly passed to certain people--Vic and Sandy
> in fact knew exactly who--that things were getting out of hand,
> please lay off the Peter-face pranking for a while.
>
> I tried to start a rumour that Vic did the painting, but it
> never took off. I hope Vic at least heard it. He'd have
> enjoyed the rumour, surely laughed at the prank while knowing
> he'd have to calm things down, and 20 years earlier might well
> have been involved in something like that.
>
> It was Vic who, on learning I was a cyclist, urged me to try
> cycling on the newly-constructed but not yet open segment of
> interstate highway that ran behind the Labs. He apparently
> had done so and found it lots of fun. Alas, I never did.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
>
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 23:35 Norman Wilson
2021-03-11 23:42 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2021-03-12 13:34 ` William Cheswick
2021-03-12 13:30 ` William Cheswick
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2021-03-15 22:46 Brian Walden
2021-03-16 1:12 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-16 12:47 ` William Cheswick
2021-03-17 3:46 ` Tomasz Rola
2021-03-11 21:23 Norman Wilson
2021-03-11 21:39 ` William Cheswick
2021-03-11 15:06 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-11 15:31 ` Andrew Hume
2021-03-11 16:13 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-11 19:50 ` Ken Thompson
2021-03-11 20:06 ` Anthony Martin
2021-03-11 20:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-11 22:00 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-11 21:48 ` Brantley Coile
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