According to an e-mail I just received, I’ve been nominated for a prestigious honor shared by thousands of executives and professionals throughout the world each year, considered by many as the single highest mark of achievement, and they don’t even know my name. There was no salutation line, just this:
It is my [...]
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My mom sent me the following e-mail today. Now I know for sure where I get my grammar amusement from. I get it from my mama, of course.
US tourist drugged, killed by train in Rome
Published: 5/26/08, 9:25 PM EDT
By MARTA FALCONI
ROME (AP) – An American tourist was killed by a train as he [...]
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E-mails like this one I got today make my job both very difficult and very rewarding. It’s hard when you know that a lot of the people who write for you may not have very much longer to live. But it is also rewarding to know that you, if even in a small way, have [...]
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From my inbox:
Congrads on your new position as editor.
Seriously? Come on people. For clarification, this was not some casual e-mail sent to me by a friend. If it were, I would have ignored it. (After all, I don’t spell check casual e-mails I send to friends. I don’t always spell check my blog.) But it [...]
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From my Inbox:
One suggestion I do have is to possibly get on a call with our president…He can talk about mold and its affect on allergies, and he can also provide solutions, with a VERY soft sell of our product (fact sheet attached). Let me know if that’s something worth while to pursue and I’d [...]
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I recently received an annoying forward (copied below) urging me to “pass this on! IF YOU ARE AGAINST CHILD ABUSE.” For starters, I really hate forwards. Moreover, I really hate forwards that ask me to pass them on, especially if the original forwarder implies that by not passing it along I don’t love Jesus, or [...]
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E-mails like these (in reply to an acceptance letter I sent for her poetry submission) totally make my day and make the occassional stress worth it.
Laura, You cannot image how your email lifted my sprits yesterday. I teach struggling high school students, and by the end of the day yesterday, I rather felt that my [...]
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Dear Mr. Brown,
I know you want to steal my money, but did you really have to bring Jesus into it? Hasn’t he been through enough already?
Thank you.LS
Dear Friend In Christ,I believe you will treat this mail with the fear of God. It is with tears that Iam writing you this mail; I dont need your [...]
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