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in Greensboro, among the other remarkable things he has done throughout his 27-year career with Linpac and the companies that acquired it. “We were all such a family in Greensboro, which was why it hurt so much when Greif “Other than me, the only other employee who came from the UK was Tim,” said Nigel of the loveable Tim Ling- ard. “I met Tim when I was working for Linpac in England and he was a sales rep for a box company in Lincolnshire and requested to come to America. He reminded me of a miniature version of the English actor Dudley Moore, only funnier. He was about five-foot-two and weighed probably 90 pounds soaking wet, but his heart was huge and he was known for, well, being outrageous. He talked himself out of so many DUIs you wouldn’t have believed it! Tim also gave me what he called the ultimate pick-up line: You go up to a woman in a bar and ask her, ‘Have you ever slept with an Englishman?’ When the woman replies ‘no,’ you ask, ‘Well, would you like to?’” Cole Patrick was “fortunate enough” to find his way through college and graduated in 1982 before interview- ing with Lingard. “To say the least, it was a very interest- ing interview with someone who was ‘fresh off the boat,’ as they say,” said Patrick. “Anyway, we hit it off well and finally closed the plant.” And Then There’s Tim
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