Best E-mails of the Week 11/9/03
I
love this! This is what a computer is supposed to do.
Click anywhere on the link below and type in your name.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~geoffo/humour/flattery.html
Subject: TRY THIS!!
1)
Key-in the first 3 digits of your phone number into the calculator
(not the area code)
2) Multiply by 80
3) Add 1
4) Multiply by 250
5) Plus last four digit of phone number
6) Plus last four digit of phone number again
7) Minus 250
8) Divide by 2 at last
Is it your phone number?
It works for the 7 digits not including your area code!
| Hi Pete & Mary, Here I am, a bit late, but grateful nonetheless for your thoughtfulness. "Bilberry" is a new one on me, but it tastes good! Thanks for thinking of me. Life here has quieted down after a very hectic month. My eye has improved drastically since the laser surgery three weeks ago and I'm thrilled to say I've been left with far more sight than I'd dared to expect. How are you both? I've been thinking about you and all of our other family members who are in the throes of building during this rainy and miserably uncooperative week. How frustrating it must be! Are you closed in yet? Hopefully you are by now. We're both wishing you well in your exciting endeavor and hope that all continues to run smoothly. Love & Hugs, Aunt Lorraine |
| Dear Aunt Lorraine, It is rainy and miserably uncooperative, but somehow we keep going forward to build our new house. Here I am in my hydraulic excavator on a typical day. Pete |
How I really responded:
Here is the house with the shingles and real grounds not as wet:
We are submitting these two pictures to get our $25. per square shingle rebate from GAF.
Speaking of Rebates, do you read this hilarious column every day at Dilbert.com?
| Dear Pete: Thanks so much for the "Dolley sightings." I've been working on other areas of the book and had not yet re-visited my Burr materials to look for Dolley cites, so you saved me a LOT of work! I think I have all the books, but I've printed out your list and I'll check them all out. One thing I did not yet find was the reference to Granger's blackmail. That alone got you into my book's Hall of Fame [acknowledgements section]. I don't carry any particular torch -- yea or nay -- for The Colonel (tho' yes, I'm quite fascinated by him), but I do find it refreshing now that I have in you a bright, well-read 101% Burr zealot to talk to <BG>. I'm sure we'll be in touch often. Keep me posted on anything else Dolley-ish you may come across. I want the Dolley book to stand up to any and every kind of scholarly broadside which could possibly be fired against it. Best wishes -- Dick |
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Pete, this one is good enough
to put on your website! My family will LOVE it.
Sue
Subject:
OLE AND SVEN
Ole and Sven die and wake up in hell. The next day the devil stops in to check on them and sees them dressed in parkas, mittens and bomber hats warming themselves around the fire. The devil asks them, "What are you doing? Isn't it hot enough for you?" Ole and Sven reply, "Vell, ya know, we're from nordern Minnesoda, the land of snow and ice and cold. We're just happy for a chance to warm up a little bit, ya know." The devil decides that these two aren't miserable enough and turns up the heat. The next morning he stops in again and there they are, still dressed in parkas, hats and mittens. The devil asks them again, "Its awfully hot down here, can't you guys feel that?" Again,Ole and Sven reply, "Vell, like we told you yesterday, we're from nordern Minnesoda, the land of snow and ice and cold. We're just happy for a chance to warm up a little bit, ya know." This gets the devil a little steamed up and he decides to fix the two guys. He cranks the heat up as high as it will go. The people are wailing and screaming every where. He stops by the room with the two guys from Minnesoda and finds them in light jackets and hats, grilling walleye and drinking beer. The devil is astonished, "Everyone down here is in abject misery, and you two seem to be enjoying yourself." The two Minnesodans reply, "Vell, ya know, we don't get too much warm weather up dere in International Falls, we've just got to have a fish fry when the weathers this nice." The devil is absolutely furious, he can hardly see straight. Finally he comes up with the answer. The two guys love the heat because they have been cold all their lives. The devil decides to turn all the heat off in hell. The next morning, the temperature is below zero, icicles are hanging everywhere, people are shivering so bad that they are unable to wail, moan and gnash their teeth. The devil smiles and heads for the room with the two Minnesodans. He gets there and finds them back in their parkas, bomber hats, and mittens. They are jumping up and down, cheering, yelling and screaming like mad men. The devil is dumbfounded, "I don't understand, when I turn up the heat you're happy. Now its freezing cold and you're still happy. What is wrong with you two?" Ole and Sven look at the devil in surprise, "Vell, don't ya know, if hell froze over dat must mean da Vikings won da Super Bowl."
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| I did feature the Vikes with Randy
Moss' picture on Best Emails at the beginning of this season. And I was
thrilled with their undefeated 6-0 start, but the losses the last two weeks
better be reversed if they expect Super Sized Status. Ole and Sven also
sound like the couple of Bills fans who died and went to heaven on Best
emails last winter. Something tells me Jake's team the Cowboys are going to do it this year. Rich, what game will we watch here when you visit us at Thanksgiving? Dolphins at Boys? And how bout dem Chiefs? 8 and Oh!!
(Pete,
You have FAMILY that loves dem Chiefs!
ME!
Rox)
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Gerry,
If you were grading that college student's project, what grade would you assign it?
| Well, Yeah, Hey, Pete |
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