I have my most brilliant and shining ideas when I'm about to fall asleep, and last night was no different. Let's say your name is Mildred Smith, and you have received the following email from a doting professor:
Dear Mildred,
I hope you found the problem set easy enough! On a related note, what do you think of narwhals? I prefer them to almost any other horned creature.
Yours,
Millicent Roberts
As is expected of you when you have received correspondence containing a query, you respond. It may start out rather mundanely:
Millicent,
I am pleased to see that you've finally gotten the hang of email. Congrats!* In response to your question, I think the narwhal is nearly as impressive as the dugong.
Here is where you can mess with Millicent, or, really, any unsuspecting interweb user with whom you are in email exchange.
Sincerely,
Mildred Roberts-Smith
If Millicent then inquires as to why you have hyphenated her last name onto your own, as if you had married her, you can simply explain that you had accidentally copy-pasted her last name into your reply email. Whoops!
On another note, long underwear is probably what God (or, as vowel-hating Jews** would say, "G-d") wears. I am pretty sure it's divinely inspired.
*If you don't like spelling, you could conceivably substitute "Congrads!" here.
**Vaguely anti-Semitic comment #3!
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