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Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 13 Jun 2000 22:19:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Hrm... unless Brad made the donation from his personal funds, this last
> > sentence is probably not accurate. Since everyone is picking nits here, I
> > suggest the following rewrite to avoid Scott from jumping on it.
> >
> > "However, I _would_ say that an employee of LEGO with apparent authority
> > to do so caused a disbursement of LEGO corporate funds to happen which
> > constituted a financial donation to LUGNET."
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> That's quite accurate.
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> > [...]
> > In that light do you agree with the clarifying rewrite, or was it actually
> > Brad's own check?
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> That part is a bit fuzzy in my mind. The bank draft (check) was not of the
> regular LEGO type (for instance what they pay employees or freelancers with)
> but was cut from an "operating account" and printed on a what appeared to be
> an inkjet printer. It bore the LEGO logo but did not come from Enfield. It
> was marked with an Enfield return address but was postmarked from New York.
> Obviously it was not a personal check, but it may have come from a completely
> discretionary pseudo-personal spending account. Not that that probably really
> matters much, but we found it curious.
Sounds like a check from Lego Direct to me. I've never heard of such a
thing as a pseudo-personal spending account.
KL
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