In Bernies' absence, I'm relaying the following joke.... A skeleton walks into a bar and says: "Give me a beer...........and a pail"
----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Downall Date: Monday, October 20, 2008 10:56 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - Bernie Lis owes a donation To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > Bernie, > We shared the "retired" person joke that you emailed to Paul > Dewey with > everyone at the conference. Actually, the way we told it, you > were the one > who walked out of the store and confronted the policeman writing > a ticket. > It worked pretty well as a joke that way. > > However, Bernie, since there was a political reference in your > joke, even > though you weren't here, it was decided by acclamation that you > owe a > donation to Project Bundle Up. You can send a check payable to > "ProjectBundle-Up," and mail it to RBTI, attn: Donna Memon, 3935 > Old William Penn Hwy, Murrysville, PA 15668. > > So can everyone else reading this, who wants to contribute to > the favorite > charity of the R:BASE Developers' Conference for 9 years now. > The first > year, 2000, we raised $253. Razzak matched it, and we donated > $506 to > Project Bundle up. It looks like this year we will approach 20 > times that > amount. > > Read about Project Bundle- Up and the conference proceedings on > the blog: > > http://rbasedevcon.blogspot.com > > We miss you, Bernie, and we miss everyone else who couldn't make it. > > Bill >
