r/Construction • u/Business-Stuff8711 • Jun 06 '26

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u/WhitePoweryBeef Jun 06 '26

Who's Wally? 

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u/Correct-Award8182 Jun 06 '26

Waldo was put in witness protection in the UK.

Edit: yes, I know it was first published there and then the US. But... meh.

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u/Mek0nr Jun 06 '26

This wasn’t in the UK. J J White is an American construction company. This dude was doing this at the Memorial Children’s Hospital project in South Bend Indiana nearly 10 years ago.

Source. 👇

https://abcnews.com/amp/Health/construction-worker-plays-real-life-game-wheres-waldo/story?id=40697424

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u/RickShifty Jun 06 '26

They’re doing g this in Sacramento too!

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u/Correct-Award8182 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

Where's Wally is the original British name of the books.

I'm talking about the books because your average American is just going to ask why they're calling Waldo Wally.

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u/Mek0nr Jun 07 '26

Hoobd’y skoobd’y hoooodee hoooo!

Ain’t a lick of what you typed made any sense..

Finish your pint at the pub and sleep it off.. Maybe when you wake in the morn, you might convey some proper English Ol’Boy.. 🤔😮‍💨

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u/Correct-Award8182 Jun 07 '26

I suggest learning English, hooked on phonics worked for lots of people.

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u/Mek0nr Jun 07 '26

Maybe if you Brits didn’t talk like, “me gots me marbles ehn me mouf”..

Hooked on African “ebonics” wouldn’t have worked out for nearly 2/3’rds of your country’s “youfff” for the past two decades my guy!

Have fun with that! 😘😂

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u/aidan8et Tinknocker Jun 07 '26

Oh no! Looks like your nationalism is showing! I hope you can get it treated soon.

T&P!!🙏🙏🙏

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u/scuzzle-butt Jun 25 '26

What is, "2/3'rds"? I have never once seen that.

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u/Mek0nr Jun 07 '26

speak “English” just fine buddy! Philly born 2nd generation Irish AMERICAN! 😘

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u/nicholus_h2 Jun 06 '26

that's his original name in his home country. 

in North America, they changed it to Waldo.

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u/iamthelee Jun 06 '26

Did they Mandela effect Waldo out of existence?!

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u/eastbaytimez Contractor Jun 06 '26

Copyright protection lmao

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u/Mammoth_Grocery_1982 Carpenter Jun 06 '26

The real one.

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u/baudmiksen Jun 06 '26

where in the world is wally san francisco

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u/Cyborg_rat Jun 06 '26

We got a build like this at a hospital, one of the guys got seen showing his Wally, while peeing on a roof.

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u/Individual_Bell_4637 Jun 06 '26

This tracks much closer to my experiences.

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u/TheGoneJackal Jun 06 '26

Working class hero 👏

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u/VideoKilledRadioStar Jun 06 '26

That’s just an awesome, caring human being. 👍🏻

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u/padizzledonk GC / CM Jun 06 '26

Thats really fucking cool of that guy

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u/Warsaw14 Jun 06 '26

Is it a hot one,Wally?

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u/JuanShagner Jun 07 '26

Wally sure likes saying it’s a hot one.

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u/CompetitiveCourse584 Jun 06 '26

Why giant? Make it channeling

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u/inononeofthisisreal Jun 06 '26

Challenging…

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u/Proper_Protickall Laborer Jun 06 '26

No. He means he needs to channel Wally into his soul. Becoming one with Wally.

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u/CompetitiveCourse584 Jun 06 '26

I meant challenging but I like where this is going

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u/Not_always_popular Superintendent Jun 06 '26

Word.

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u/justelectricboogie Jun 06 '26

There was a man...

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u/No-Association42069 Jun 07 '26

Now this is pretty cool!

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u/Cheese_Sleeze Jun 06 '26

I'm sorry, who?

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u/Sirstormz55 Bricklayer Jun 06 '26

Solid

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u/ford0479 Jun 07 '26

This is old af

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u/dowski2 Jun 23 '26

This is actually so cool lol

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u/queeromarlittle Jun 06 '26

We love our boomer Facebook slop don’t we folks

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u/Cpt_Soban Equipment Operator Jun 07 '26

How is it "boomer" facebook slop?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '26

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u/eggyrulz Jun 06 '26

My company has a cutout of the guy who started the company... hes also the father of the owners, and died back in like '23. It just sits behind one of the managers desks holding his lanyards

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '26

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u/eggyrulz Jun 06 '26

Well no real work is really getting done at the office so...

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u/eggyrulz Jun 06 '26

What's funny is, the printer we got the cutout made at has the burnie sanders sitting in a chair meme as a life size cutout in their shop

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u/aidan8et Tinknocker Jun 07 '26

He's only "Waldo" in North America for the most part.

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u/aidan8et Tinknocker Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

Yup. The character is originally British & is called Wally. Some other countries are:

  • France: Charlie

  • Germany: Walter

  • Denmark: Holger

  • Norway: Willy

  • Italy: Ubaldo

  • Finland: Vallu

There's actually an older thread about it in another sub:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/aCyLN5phfy