[semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

10 posts ยท Feb 25 1999 to Mar 1 1999

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:44:02 +0000

Subject: [semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

Hi all,

I had a letter a couple of days ago from our ex-Listfuhrer, Jon White -
sadly Jon hasn't resubbed to the new list location yet, because he had a nasty
road accident just after Christmas and is still recovering. I don't have any
more details, but he asked me to post this message just to let everyone know
what is going on, and why we haven't had any posts from him recently.

From: Matthew Seidl <seidl@v...>

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:54:19 -0700

Subject: Re: [semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:44:02 +0000, Ground Zero Games writes:

You know, this scares me a little. I hope the good karma from some of the
other lists I run's old admins helps offset the gzg lists obvious bad karma.
Jon W. should be happy he wasn't the admin at the time of the accident. The
extra jinx might have been enough to push him over the edge.

But I do hope he recovers. If anyone has more words from him I'm sure they'll
post them here.

From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:08:00 -0500

Subject: Re: [semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

Ground spake thusly upon matters weighty:

> I think everyone will join me in wishing Jon a very speedy and

Please convey to Jon W the best regards of the list.
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From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:10:20 -0600

Subject: Re: [semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

*whew* For a sec I thought I was experiencing deja vu, but Jon White announced
yesterday his accident, and said something about typing with one hand.
'...on
the mend, thanks for asking.

Jonathan, I'm assuming you will be looking at the list from time to time; no
need to reply, given the difficulties of one-handed typing. ;->= But
continued best wishes on continued mending! Consider this a list 'hip hip
hoorah' by three.

Oh, and Matthew? Don't sweat it: list non-admins suffer plenty of car
accidents, as I can too readily attest personally as of a few years ago. I'd
say your karma is doing just fine.

The_Beast

From: Mark A. Siefert <cthulhu@c...>

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:52:02 -0600

Subject: Re: [semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

> Ground Zero Games wrote:

> I think everyone will join me in wishing Jon a very speedy and

Indeed. Please extend my best wishes for his convalescence. Later,

From: Mike Wikan <mww@n...>

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:00:57 -0800

Subject: RE: [semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

Heal swiftly!!

Michael Wikan Game Design Slave Zero Accolade, Inc.
http://www.slavezero.com
mwikan@accolade.com wikan@sprintmail.com "We sleep safely in our beds because
rough men stand ready in the night to
visit violence on those who would do us harm."-George Orwell

> -----Original Message-----

From: Jonathan white <jw4@b...>

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:29:54 BST

Subject: Re: [semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

> On 25 Feb 99, at 22:44, Ground Zero Games wrote:
Hey, cool, does this mean my catalogue's in the post then:)? As it turns out I
was cleared to return to work a few days after I sent the letter to GZG, which
I wasn't expecting. It turns out my according to my GP, far from my arm
needing rest he actually thinks typing (or trying to type) with it will be
good physiotherapy..

> With the tragic loss of Adam a couple of years back, then this

takes up bungie jumping or anything. It's my experience that probability

doesn't like people taking the mickey.

Thanks for the thoughts everyone.

                                TTFN
                                        Jon

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:06:32 +0000

Subject: Re: [semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

> On 25 Feb 99, at 22:44, Ground Zero Games wrote:

From: Rick Rutherford <rickr@s...>

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:22:45 -0500

Subject: RE: [semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

Um...

... "taking the mickey"? I assume you're not talking about Disney's mouse.

From: Jonathan white <jw4@b...>

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 10:00:12 BST

Subject: RE: [semi-OT] News on Jon White, ex-list admin.

> On 26 Feb 99, at 16:22, Rick Rutherford wrote:
Um no. I guess this ties into the language thread yeh?:). In the UK 'Taking
the mickey' is a phrase for ribbing or joking at someone's expense. The less
polite version is Taking somthing else.

                        TTFN
                                Jon