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... how about some nice mail from Mac's mailbox as a change of
pace. Sure she gets some. Perhaps even a few love letters :)
 

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Nothing very exciting, I'm afraid. There was this, yesterday, from a recently-terminated account:

Is it becasue [sic] your mother is a fucking CUNT WHORE?

That was it, in its entirety. No salutation or anything...

I fear we're letting down the team, with regard to what we're teaching people about business correspondence, of late.
 

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They could at least address you directly, McCannister.
 

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Well, geez, if I'd known you were going to take it so personally, I'd have spell checked.

And eliminated that glaring redundancy, too.

Maryn, ducking
 

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There's always the chance they meant it nicely.

Oh, wait - maybe not.


:ROFL:
 

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Nothing very exciting, I'm afraid. There was this, yesterday, from a recently-terminated account:



That was it, in its entirety. No salutation or anything...

I fear we're letting down the team, with regard to what we're teaching people about business correspondence, of late.
No heddrz? ;) :D
Lor Maryn, I told you how to spell becuase a million times!



:tongue
Literally!
 

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That was it, in its entirety. No salutation or anything...

A salutation is a courteous recognition. You were expecting My dearest Ms. MacAllister?

I dunno, Mac, considering the body of the letter, maybe your expectations are a tad high.:D
 

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Or the sender was high...

That could be. I have three brothers. The youngest was on an angry drunk one time and tried to call the rest of us sons-of-a-bitch, but he couldn't get the plural right and kept blabbering "You're all son-of-a-bitches . . . no . . . bitches with sons . . . three of 'em . . . no . . ."

Where's a tape recorder when you need one?
 

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Why do people always have to bring mothers into their insults?
 

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Why do people always have to bring mothers into their insults?

To muddy what we hold most dear. In my case, it's calling my Colt six-gun old and ugly.:guns:

Lurve your candid mailbox, Mac, and you, too. :ily:
 

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I'm so disappointed. I've been patiently waiting to see more of Mac's mail and when she finally gets one--it not only lacks creativity, but it's also way too short to hold me over until the next one. :e2bummed:


Congrats, Mac! Apparently you are wearing the haters down, *becasue they can't even manage to come up with something original.


*since should go there, but I really wanted to use becasue in a sentence*
 

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So vulgar. People with class say "C U Next Tuesday". (learned this from my high school girls.) (Not directly, of course.) -s6

Following in the steps of the master! Shakespeare made the same joke:


Malvolio:
By my life, this is my lady's hand these be her
very C's, her U's and her T's and thus makes she her
great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand.

Twelfth Night; Act two, scene five.

(Which is probably one of the reasons they don't teach Twelfth Night in high school....)
 

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Following in the steps of the master! Shakespeare made the same joke:
Malvolio:
By my life, this is my lady's hand these be her
very C's, her U's and her T's and thus makes she her
great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand.
Twelfth Night; Act two, scene five.

(Which is probably one of the reasons they don't teach Twelfth Night in high school....)
I think you're overestimating the ability of the average teenager to realize something classic can be dirty. They teach Romeo & Juliet, including "The bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon" and I've never yet met a teenager who caught that one, obvious as it is :D.

Of course, they're probably reading the "modern English" side of the page, which says something like, "The hands of the clock are pointing at noon," so they have no notion a cool dirty joke has been bowlderized...

ETA: I was horrified when I saw they have put out side-by-side "translations" of Shakespeare into "modern English." I am very glad to hear when schools stay with the original, which, face it, is *not* that difficult! And is much more beautiful. And a lot dirtier ;).
 
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No. We English teachers are not above letting slip that the material is ( gasp) dirty. I have even told the kids NOT to read selections because they are too "adult"--works every time! --s6
 

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No. We English teachers are not above letting slip that the material is ( gasp) dirty. I have even told the kids NOT to read selections because they are too "adult"--works every time! --s6

I used to do this with Chaucer undergraduate classes :D
 

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I think you're overestimating the ability of the average teenager to realize something classic can be dirty. They teach Romeo & Juliet, including "The bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon" and I've never yet met a teenager who caught that one, obvious as it is :D.

Of course, they're probably reading the "modern English" side of the page, which says something like, "The hands of the clock are pointing at noon," so they have no notion a cool dirty joke has been bowlderized...

ETA: I was horrified when I saw they have put out side-by-side "translations" of Shakespeare into "modern English." I am very glad to hear when schools stay with the original, which, face it, is *not* that difficult! And is much more beautiful. And a lot dirtier ;).

When I was in second grade our teacher read us a book called"[Something] and the Ass". When you read a book about a donkey and call it an 'ass' in front of a group of 7 year olds you cannot convince them by ANY means of logic you aren't swearing...

Not really dirty but your comment reminded me of that. :D
 
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