# Who is/was Wally?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-was-wally/49060
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [January 8, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-was-wally/49060 "2001-01-08T22:29:56Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-was-wally/49060/1 "2001-01-08T22:29:56Z")
I’ve only been on the boards six months or so, and I keep seeing references to Wally. He seems to have been very well-thought-of, and people seem to miss him.
But he was before my time.
Can anyone fill me in on this SDMB patriarch?
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-was-wally/49060/2 "2001-01-08T22:50:51Z")
So a search on “WallyM7” and read up on his posts, **BW**. I strongly recommend everything he wrote. I don’t have any threads handy off the top of my head, though I’m sure someone does.
Wally was a really great guy. I’m sorry you didn’t get a chance to meet him, wd. He was my friend, and I miss him a lot.
He left us with 3124 posts. Which might help explain a couple sigs.
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-was-wally/49060/3 "2001-01-08T23:05:31Z")
Opal has a nice tribute page set up here: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/wally.adp](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/wally.adp)