This week’s journal theme: Odd emails. Here’s an autoresponse that made me laugh.
----Original Message----
From:
Subject: windy
Sorry - due to the excessive amount of unsolicited spam received on this account, the email address you’ve contacted is no longer in existence. If you’ve sent spam to this email address, sucks to be you and we hope you get nailed with big fines in the future.
“Watch your step as you exit the train, and if you’re late, just remember that life is a lot like being on this train: we may not be there yet, but we’re getting there.”
“According to Golf Digest, from 1996 to 2007, Woods made $769,440,709. Golf Digest predicts that, by 2010, Woods will become the world’s first athlete to pass one billion dollars in earnings.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)