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WindowsInJudgement ago

Interesting definition of 'ball of wax' below from Google.

It's an old way of splitting up by concealing something (a name) in a ball or balls of wax. Similar to drawing straws is my guess. The list of people could be getting a share in something or it could be a list to pick the 'short straw' from

[1950s+; origin unknown; perhaps fr a manner of distributing the land of an estate to heirs, described in the early 1600s, in which the amount of each portion is concealed in a ball of wax that is drawn out of a hat in a sort of lottery.

throwaway345678 ago

more significant names could be hidden among meaningless lists