IMF wants to know if you really died...

[Skogsgurra]

I receive so many letters from guys that want me involved in sending them money. Or something. But Mr. Braunwalder Garland gets the prize: He asked me "Did you" (die, that is).

So, I answered him like this:

Thanks a lot for your kind letter, Mr. Braunwalder!

Yes, I died last year, not last week as Mrs. Brown says. She also got it wrong as to the cause of my death - it was from cancer - not a car accident. I can understand that she confused car accident and cancer, there are a lot of common letters in the two.

I wish that I died in a car accident, much nicer than cancer. At least that is what my late friend Bob Pease (the well-known author in Electronic Design, Penton Publishing) has told me when we met in Heaven. God bless him.

I am glad that you write me now. The first weeks were bad; the smell and the bodily decomposition and all that. My wife didn't allow me in our house when lumps of flesh fell off my body, so I couldn't get to my computer for an orderly answer. It is much better now when I have turned into a rather handsome - if I may say so - skeleton with a few interesting features like broken arms, a divided breast bone (from a heart surgery) and a few other less prominent, but still - at least for the connoisseur - interesting features. But I digress, sorry for that.

You have really put me in an awkward situation. I cannot give you any other address than Heaven, upstairs, second cloud to the left and my name is not any clearer - I think that S:t Gunnar would be correct.
Occupation? "Stiff" maybe? Sex? Not easy to tell any more - that organ was one of the first to rot and fall off. So I really cannot say, anymore. HBQTNL perhaps?

Also, I do not have any access to my immense riches any more. All gone. But if Mrs. Brown can find any - she can have it all.

Live and die in peace, dear Mr. Braunschweig. I am sure that you deserve it.

BR from Heaven (it is nice up here - a little boring, perhaps but all the letters from IMF and other earthen organizations keep me busy and also somewhat amused)

Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

 

[waross]

It must be nice to be remembered, Gunnar.
IMF?
International Monetary fund?
Definitely not Intelligent Message Filter.
For a more helpful answer I'll have to ask ask the questions that we usually ask in this forum.
Voltage? Frequency? HP? etc.
In context these may seem like silly questions, but given the original message from the IMF, a silly message may often elicit a silly response. grin
Glad to see my friend having fun.
I almost forgot: If you see my friend Bob from Toronto, please say hello. Thanks.

Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter

 

[Skogsgurra]

Thank you so much, Bill. It lived me up, so to say.

Sorry that this appeared in the wrong forum. It was supposed to be in the an invitation-only forum where this kind of stuff belongs. But, there you are.

And, your question is an appropriate one. DC in Swedish is "Likström" which means "Still Current" or, "Corpse Current" if transalted word by word. So electric etc Forum wasn't that bad. It could have been worse. Like the Failures & Disasters or Lighting & wiring fora.


Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

 

[waross]

I am enjoying the repartee.
You can keep it public by moving it to the Hobbies forum.
I understand that the moderator in that forum allows almost any valid question.
Are you dead seem an important question and it will probably be allowed there.
It will probably fit in somewhere between Brontosaurus and soccer.
Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter