# Wally's Last Night **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 22, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218 "2000-06-22T18:35:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218/21 "2000-06-23T01:51:47Z")
Wally sent this back to me some time ago when I asked him to listen for my records in Canada to help me monitor my airplay royalties. It has been in my inbox for several months and I didn’t delete it because I really cherished hearing from him. What a nice and wonderful person he was. Dear Mike, ``` Forgive me for not responding sooner. I remember the Five Americans. I think your debut was "I See the Light." We have two oldie stations in my area: CHUM1050 Toronto and CKOC1150 Hamilton. Both of these stations are AM and in Ontario. I listen to both of them, especially when I'm driving. I will certainly inform you whenever I hear one of your songs. It's going to be tough, keeping to myself the fact that our own aha was a recorded writer\musician in the crazy Sixties. Of course, I have no intention of betraying a confidence. I think that perhaps you don't want this fact to be widely known is for fear of being innundated with a gazillion questions. Thanks for writing, Mike. I'll let you know if I hear one of your numbers. I promise. Best Regards, Wally ``` \*Walk slow old son because none of us are too far behind you. We’ll see you again… and until then, here is a three stooges poke in the eye for ya. putz. (watery eyes) Repectfully Mike/aha\* ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218/22 "2000-06-23T02:21:15Z")
At the risk of coming off sounding trite and corny, this reminds me of the Wizard’s words to the Tin Man. “Remember, a heart is measured not by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.” Truly, Wally had an enormous heart. Godspeed. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218/23 "2000-06-23T04:04:02Z")
La vie est peut-être absurde, mais cela ne signifie pas qu’aucun dieu n’existe. Comme évidence, je vous presente Wally lui-même. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218/24 "2000-06-23T04:05:19Z")
Thank you is such an inadequate phrase, but it’s the best I have right now, Shayna. I can only imagine how hard that must have been for you to type. I pray that God will wrap His loving arms around you and bring you comfort. I’m here for you, always. So many wonderful sentiments expressed here, I echo them. I received an email from one of the dopers\ and one sentence struck me in my heart: > [@](#): > > \*\* > …but I feel like all across the country, there are many of our hearts holding hands. If Wally did anything for this board, it made some of us love and hold onto each other a little more. \*\* Amen, my friend. I am _ **proud** _ to be a part of this community called Dopeville, especially the MPSIMS neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218/25 "2000-06-23T05:05:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > La vie est peut-être absurde, mais cela ne signifie pas qu’aucun dieu n’existe. Comme évidence, je vous presente Wally lui-même. > \*\* I have to go with Coldfire’s sentiments instead. trisha ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218/26 "2000-06-23T06:21:50Z")
Thank you Shayna. It is hard knowing what happened, but not as hard as not knowing was. I am so glad to know that he and his family had such a wonderful day before the accident. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218/27 "2000-06-23T15:15:30Z")
Thank you, everyone, for your kind and loving words. I am still bitterly sad, and will be for a long time. But knowing that this post meant something to those who also loved Wally means a great deal to me. And Ruffian, I will take you up on that hug, girlfriend. I could sure use a real one right now. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218/28 "2000-06-23T20:13:18Z")
Rats. Like many other posters, I never met Wally. Unlike many posters, I had the opportunity…and I blew it. Wally and I are from the same neighbourhood. We didn’t realize it until one of his posts sounded just to damn familiar. (You know that one about the stolen cop car?) We e-mailed back and forth and found out we had the old neighbourhood, friends and stories in common. I don’t get back to the old neighbourhood very often, but he did say we would share a beer at the Eastwood (local favorite watering hole) if I stopped by. I never did. This weekend I will make apoint of going to the Eastwood, ordering a draft, and saluting a man who made me laugh long, loud and often. 'Bye Wally. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218/29 "2000-06-23T20:33:19Z")
I’ve been debating with myself long and hard over where to put this little bit of comfort. I don’t know that this is the best place, but I don’t know that any place is better. I was walking to my final exam for psychology yesterday and was naturally more concerned about other things than about the actual exam. We had just covered old age/death and dying the previous day and I’m glad I wasn’t able to be there, else I might have fallen completely apart. Anyway, I started thinking about Wally . . . wondering if he was okay. And I got an incredible feeling of joy/happiness . . . and a sort of mental image, I guess, of him watching over me in particular. I don’t know quite what to attribute this next bit to, but there were sections of the final exam that I just didn’t know . . . so I read the questions and came back to them, and I _knew_ the answers. This is stuff where I wasn’t in class when the material was covered, and I didn’t get the book for the class. ALl I can think of is that he made damn sure I passed that exam. Probably would have called me a putz if I hadn’t. FWIW, I write with my left hand, the same that has “Putz” written on it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallys-last-night/23218.md?page=1)