Day: November 15, 2001

Not all the e-mail I get is spam. Some of it is actually quite entertaining. Fellow capper Erik Wilson (aka Generik) passes this along:

This was sent to me by a friend who used to live in Taos, New Mexico. He received it from a friend of his who still lives in the Land of Enchantment, and, well… I guess the message itself says it all. Enjoy.

(Those of you who may be qualified, please feel free to respond. And remember that trust and honesty is an absolutely must!!)

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Time Travelers PLEASE HELP!!

If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help. Also if you are from any of the following planets and can help me as mentioned please reply: Vadikar, Nefarious, Tralfamadore, Valnator, Travers, Edenad. I come to you for help, and need a way of doing this in the following way exactly in such a way that there will be little or no danger. I come to you in peace. Trust and honesty is an absolutely must!! My life has been severely tampered with and cursed. I have suffered tremendously and am now dying! I need to be able to:

Travel physically back in time.

Rewind my life (including my age).

Be able to (remember what I know now) so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with again after I go back.

I am in great danger and need this immediately! Only if you are a time traveler or nice alien and have this technology please send me a (separate) email to: Robby0809@aol.com

Thanks

You can learn so much just from reading your e-mail. For instance, did you know that “it is now quick, easy and inexpensive for you to permanently achieve the bust line you’ve always wanted”? Well it is! If “S. Sanders” is no longer embarrassed to change at the gym, why should you be? And with that increased bust size, isn’t now the perfect opportunity to “get involved with the $35 billion dollar a year adult XXX industry”? Maybe then you’ll be able to afford to refinance your dream home, buy that herbal penis enlargement treatment you’ve had your eye on, and double your life insurance policy at no extra cost! What fun!

Why doesn’t anybody I know ever send me e-mail? C’mon, even dead people don’t have an excuse anymore!

Because it’s three days later and I don’t think they’re ever going to print it, here’s a short letter I wrote to Penn State’s student paper, The Daily Collegian, in response to another letter to the editor.

While I agree with Robert J. Thompson that Penn State football fans are perhaps not always on their best behavior—and while I suspect he meant to call the hostility he witnessed at the Southern Mississippi game disheartening in light of recent terrorist attacks rather than in lieu of them—I wonder why he feels the need to reference the tragic events of September 11 in his letter to the editor at all. Certainly “vulgar and lewd comments” about one’s university and team are never appreciated or acceptable, and fans of opposing teams should be made to feel welcome on the Penn State campus, but what does this have to do with terrorism? Is Mr. Thompson trying to suggest that animosity between athletic rivals will in some way “let the terrorists win”? Please. The actions of a few mean-spirited football fans are not an affront to American solidarity, and although the hostility that visiting fans might sometimes face is unfortunate and deplorable, it bears no relationship to the terrorist attacks of September 11.

I’m not entirely convinced I said what I was trying to say, but that’s what I wrote, and there you have it. I’m just a little tired of this idea that every action or event in our lives now has to be viewed as having some sort of direct relationship to the events of September 11, or that every insult we may receive is now somehow especially disheartening in light of recent events.