[geeks] What not to do..

[Joe Madjeski]

And I am the guy that will forward this too all of my friends telling them
they'll have bad luck if they dont pass it on!

Let's see how long it takes to come back!!! heheheh
-joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:24 PM
Subject: [geeks] What not to do..


> Saw this on Lowbrow (www.lowbrow.com - you'll get addicted) and just
> HAD to pass it on:
>
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> One day I made the mistake of admitting that I eat meat on a P.C.
> mailing list, and some vegan created the subject line of a thread to
> reflect disgust with me, complete with my name spelled wrong and a
> "blecch" emoticon. That subject line persisted for almost two months!
> Longest-lived thread I'd ever seen!
>
> Well, after repeated polite requests to change the subject line, I
> finally got fed up (on sirloin and beer, I believe...) and posted the
> following:
>
> ====
>
> Okay, fine. I eat filth. I eat everything in sight and I look like
> Jabba the Hut. I also pick my nose in the car next to you at the stop
> light. I fart in elevators. I was the one who used the last of the TP
> and didn't replace the roll. The IRS was my idea, and so was Y2K. The
> gum you just stepped in was mine, and if you picked it off with your
> fingers, I have the flu. I drained your car battery and let the air out
> of your tire late at night in the rain. I'm ahead of you in the
> cash-only express line at the grocery store and it's my pleasure to get
> price checks on every one of the 45 items I've carefully selected which
> have neither price tags nor scannable bar codes, argue with the manager
> about how many coupons I can use for a pack of Certs, then pay with a
> credit card which is no good. I remove every "Do Not Remove This Tag"
> tag I see, and litter them about on the floor. I run with scissors and
> don't play well with others, nor do I use my time wisely. I pull the
> wings off butterflies to stop the "Butterfly Effect" and speed global
> warming. I teach science to American students. I put the eyelash in your
> eye and made you bite your tongue; your funny bone is very funny to me.
> I overdrew your checking account and charged your credit card payments
> to the card with 21% interest and no grace period. I am the source of
> all junk mail, and when the occasional letter carrier discovers the
> truth, I make him go, well, postal. I design child safety seats, war
> toys, anorexic fashion dolls, and I'm just finishing up a book "Extreme
> Parenting: Pushing Your Child 23 Hours a Day for Success!" I park
> sideways across both handicapped spaces. I told Saddam that nukes are
> just like really big fireflies and are a really good solution to the
> recycling problem just after I assured Mr. Gates that everyone would
> love to pay a yearly fee for the privilege of using a buggy pseudo
> operating system. I took Barney's 13-strand DNA and made the
> Teletubbies. Pleased to meet you, I'm the Beast and proud of it.
>
> Two of those sentences are true. Change the damn subject line.
>
> ====
>
> That served to transmute the thread into a discussion of conspiracy
> theories, of all things!
>
> - kthernandez at hotmail.com
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>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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