[Taxacom] on returning loans

[Richard Zander]

No, no. The key phrase is "requested by dead people." If you died before requesting the loan, then this doesn't apply. If you requested the loan then died, it doesn't apply. You have to request the loan AFTER dying. This is the magic, spiritual element of the thread here, as introduced by the incantation: "wtf!"

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-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Barry Roth
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:16 PM
To: Jim Croft; TaxaCom; Stephen Thorpe
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] on returning loans

The logic escapes me.  If I died tomorrow, my loan would not suddenly become older.
 
Barry Roth

--- On Wed, 3/3/10, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:


From: Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] on returning loans
To: "Jim Croft" <jim.croft at gmail.com>, "TaxaCom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 5:45 PM


Death is no excuse!


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From: Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>
To: TaxaCom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Thu, 4 March, 2010 2:36:56 PM
Subject: [Taxacom] on returning loans

Today's phrase of the day (#pod) brought to you by Brendan Lepschi,
Curator of the Australian National Herbarium:

"wtf! We have loans here that are so old they were requested by dead
people!  They are the are bloody well going back!  Deal with it!"

rofl... :)  but there will be tears, possibly blood...

jim

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