# Thank you Chicago Reader & Straight Dope... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 23, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362 "2000-06-23T21:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/1 "2000-06-23T21:28:06Z")
Thank you for donating the space for the banner. You don’t know how much this means to all of us lowly posters. Thank you for opening your hearts and letting us put that up there! You independent newspapers are pretty dang cool! Liz techchick68 :wally ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/2 "2000-06-23T22:15:44Z")
Techchick, I was just about to start a similar thread when I noticed yours. They’re my sentiments exactly. Thanks for the banner space (and, of course, thank you, tech for the banner), thanks for the Wally smilie. It is very generous and sweet of you to do that. It really does mean a lot to all of us. (I guess I shouldn’t make sweeping generalizations - I means a lot to many of us :)) ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/3 "2000-06-23T22:26:45Z")
Let me add my thanks. This is very generous and greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/4 "2000-06-23T22:28:13Z")
I echo the sentiments. It may only be a banner, but it does mean a lot to those of us that love and miss Wally. And, I have to think it will be a fitting tribute that his family can see with joy. I will name my first 2 children Cecil just because of this. ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/5 "2000-06-24T01:43:52Z")
Here’s my thanks as well. I won’t be having any more children so I can’t name those buggers “Cecil” or “Cecilia”, however I probably add some more dachshunds to the brood… ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/6 "2000-06-24T02:20:09Z")
Thank you. When I opened the board today and saw the banner, it literally made me cry. What a wonderful memory of our Wally. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/7 "2000-06-24T02:26:13Z")
To the management of the Reader and the SDMB: thank you for magnanimously donating the space for the banner memorial. And thanks to techchick68 for creating the banner. ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/8 "2000-06-24T02:41:33Z")
Just another ditto head here. Thanks to all of you who made this happen. ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/9 "2000-06-24T03:01:31Z")
You’re quite welcome, and thanks for the kind words. I’ve passed your comments along to the honchos. ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/10 "2000-06-24T03:55:33Z")
Another thank you, SDMB, cool beans. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/11 "2000-06-24T05:10:40Z")
Like Ultress, the banner made me cry. How wonderful of the SD and the Reader to do this. The only bad thing is I won’t be able to read the MB without tears constantly welling up. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/12 "2000-06-24T05:12:33Z")
I remember sitting around chat offering to throw in $5 or so toward the price of putting up a banner in honor of Wally. Then someone brought up the idea to TubaDiva, and she said “It’s on us.” Totally cool. And cool of you, techie, to design it. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/13 "2000-06-24T05:15:12Z")
looks good, techchick - and thanks, SDMB ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/14 "2000-06-24T05:24:44Z")
Totally class act, all the way around, all parties involved. Keep this up and we’ll have to abandon cynicism and go back to attacking Ignorance. ::tip o’ the hat:: Veb ---
**Author:** ![mikan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mikan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/15 "2000-06-24T07:05:09Z")
TVeblen, you took the words right out of my mouth. But I’ll say it again anyway: totally class act, all around. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/16 "2000-06-25T17:32:14Z")
Well, let **me** be the one to register a formal (non-troll) protest against the Wally banner. It doesn’t do him justice, people. What, a few thousand measly pixels, to represent a lifetime? Because he didn’t start out as WallyM7, you know, like Athena springing from the head of Zeus. It took years of hard livin’ for him to become the Jedi Master of the Putz Rifle that he was. It should have been an entire Web page, with a mandatory link, that is, before you could log onto the main forums page, you would HAVE to read the Wally tribute, which would include all of his best threads, like “cybersex” and “gerbil”, with animated dancing girls, and excerpts from his best Pit flames illustrated by Slug. P.S. Techchick, FWIW, I’ve got a computer that’s the slower twin brother of Baloo’s (it’s a 486 with a 2 gig hard drive and Win95), and I’m not experiencing any difficulties whatso-effing-ever with loading times. ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/17 "2000-06-25T18:30:46Z")
Duck, there _is_ a wonderful tribute page for Wally. Opal set it up. I think it says worlds about how much Wally meant to everyone - it’s not like Opal and Techie and the Reader people are sitting around waiting to do something, they’re all **very** busy, yet they stopped and took the time to do this. Opalcat - the tribute page, Techchick - the banner, and the Reader - the smilie and the space for the banner - all with no charge. I am, at times, overwhelmed by the kindness and the generosity of these people. Click on the link in my sig, it will direct you to the tribute page. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2000, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-chicago-reader-straight-dope/23362/18 "2000-06-25T23:03:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > You’re quite welcome, and thanks for the kind words. I’ve passed your comments along to the honchos. > \*\* Very nice and a huge thanks to SDMB and techchick for the banner. Very classy. And btw Ed you told me **you** were the honcho. 🙂