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[anonymouswriter]

So, in my campaign to stop getting annoying forwards, I decided to target the people I used to work with. After head office dismantled that department, a book was sent around to collect e-mails --- a means of keeping in touch, even though I had zero desire to do so. But I didn't want to seem like an anti-social bitch, so I put down a rarely-used e-

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[sa_sagesse]

I think there is definitely some serious bitch in that e-mail "reply-all" to you - if she had just replied to you, it could be that she just writes e-mails like a frigging moron (I know some people who are really cheery in person and when I talk with them online/get e-mails from them, they sound so bitchy - it's just the way they type I don't think they're actually being bitchy). However, because she obviously knows the difference between "reply" and "reply-all" and chose to slam you in a "reply-all" e-mail, I think that was intentional and totally bitchy.

My reply to her? Would've been:

Dear pot,

I'll take that under advisement.

Regards,
- Kettle.

[anonymouswriter]

Shit. I wish I'd seen this first and that's what I should have written back to her. It sounds so much better than my simpering, "polite" response. Just reading it over now, I can't help but think about that line from Grey's Anatomy: "There is a land called Passive-Aggressiva and I am their Queen."

[sa_sagesse]

Hehe. That was a good line.

I just got the craziest forward, I haven't had one like it in ages - a GIANT powerpoint slideshow with a 'chinese proverb' that was about 8 slides long. It started in the Netherlands and went around the wrold 8 times. But it was sent from a missionary in South Africa. If you don't send it within 4 days, your children may fall ill and die - but if you DO send it, you'll be a millionaire. The whole damn thing must've been twenty slides long.

Even though the whole zillion slides of the proverb were about how money can buy a house, not a home, blood, not a life, etc etc.

Hahaha, oh my God. Friggin' Internet.

[anonymouswriter]

You won't believe the shit storm I've been weathering since I sent that e-mail.

One woman wrote the nastiest e-mail and another woman got all snotty on me.

I got tired of it after awhile and just automatically hit delete.

My theory? They're all middle-aged women. The Internet is this novel, relatively new experience for them. They do not understand that forwards just aren't cool. It's like flooding your mail box with junk mail. How cool is that? Not very.

What irritates me is that my friend actually called to tell me about one of the replies (she's one of the people on the list who had the fortune of reading the "reply all" response from Bitch 1 and Bitch 2) even though I told her not to tell me about it. Like, WTF?