{"id":68,"date":"2004-10-01T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=68"},"modified":"2004-10-01T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T18:52:00","slug":"catching-up-on-the-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/01\/catching-up-on-the-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up on the mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy lately, so I&#8217;ve gotten behind reading through the e-mail in my Inbox, so let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s in there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subj: add 3 inches to ol johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this e-mail was sent to me by mistake.  It was intended for a Mr. Johnson, who seems to be looking into methods to make himself taller.  I&#8217;ve heard that it&#8217;s possible to undergo a surgical procedure that can make a person several inches taller, but involves breaking both legs and there is a danger that they won&#8217;t heal properly.  I would advise Mr. Johnson to look into platform shoes, or perhaps take a self-esteem class &#8211; adding three inches of height won&#8217;t necessarily fill the emptiness he feels inside.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone knows Mr. Johnson&#8217;s e-mail address, let me know and I&#8217;ll forward the message on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subj: U R Stupid Dumbass If You Pay Full Price For Softwarees!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gotta give the sender an &#8220;A&#8221; for marketing.  After all, do I want to go around thinking, &#8220;I M Stupid Dumbass?&#8221;  Of course not!  Therefore, I will seriously consider buying his softwaree, or so0ftware or soooffftwares as it is referred to elsewhere in the message.<\/p>\n<p>The main program they are promoting is W1ND0WS XP Pro.  They point out that when I shop and buyyy it in a box I paayy $299.00.  But they can seeell it to me for only $32, which according to them is a saav1ngs of $254.  These people obviously have the world of software figured out.  I don&#8217;t know whether to be more impressed with their spelling skills, or their math skills.  I better start ordering those softwaarres now.  Oops, I accidentally deleted the message.  Too bad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>V1agra, Xan@x, more &#8211; no doctor visit required! zxqvba shjol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This V1agra must be good stuff, because I have received over 1000 messages about it over the past month.  Obviously a lot of people I&#8217;ve never met before are concerned with my health and well-being and thought I should know about this.  The world is full of wonderful souls, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>As for Xan@x, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s great too, but don&#8217;t you think people might mistake it for an e-mail address?  Someone might think it&#8217;s used to send mail to Xan at x (I think they may have meant Xan at x.com though) and miss out on the amazing benefits one gets from taking Xan@x.<\/p>\n<p>And no doctor visits &#8211; that&#8217;s just brilliant.  I hate going to see doctors.  They poke you with needles and charge you lots of money.  Who needs doctors?<\/p>\n<p>I clicked on the website listed in the e-mail, and discovered to my delight that they also had Phenterem1ne as well!  How lucky am I?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;ll do it for e-mail today.  Feels good to be all caught up.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy lately, so I&#8217;ve gotten behind reading through the e-mail in my Inbox, so let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s in there. Subj: add 3 inches to ol johnson Obviously, this e-mail was sent to me by mistake. It was intended for a Mr. Johnson, who seems to be looking into methods to make himself taller. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/01\/catching-up-on-the-mail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catching up on the mail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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