The Magic Eight Ball
Sometimes, I get really perplexing emails, and it’s hard to know how to answer them.
I decided that perhaps a Magic Eight Ball approach would work best. For example, consider this one:
>Name: doesn’t matter
>Email: mandie.cane@xxxxxx.com
>Message: do you really get trapped by the “Mormon people”??? you are quite dramatic about it. they sound like awful people.
Um, Signs point to yes.
Don’t like that answer? I’ll shake it one more time.
Hmm. Ask again later.
Now, I have a few questions for the old Magic Eight Ball myself.
Isn’t it kind of stupid to put “doesn’t matter” in the contact name of your email when your NAME is your email address?
The MEB says:
It is decidedly so.
Isn’t it fairly apparently this email was sent by a Mormon (possibly semi-illiterate or non-English speaking) who wanted me to feel stupid about my “drama,” and also attempted some irony by saying “they sound like awful people?”
MEB says: It is certain.
Wow, amazing how that works….
October 13th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Those magic eight balls are almost as good as the Holy Ghost!
October 14th, 2006 at 12:14 am
A good thing to resort to the unfailing wisdom of the Magic Eight Ball or we’d be worried
October 14th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Also, So glad you NOTICED! He he he. I was going to add that to my post, but decided to let it go, and see if anyone made that connection….
October 14th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
But can your MEB send a shiver down your spine, or speak to you in a still, small voice? Gotcha! To match the decisive level of the Spirit, you’ll need to step up to a full-fledged Ouija board, or at least some New Age crystals. But you can’t buy the HG at a game store, the Mormons have a patent on it. Anyway, with all this talk of Magic, Ghosts, and Spirits, I’m really getting in the mood for Halloween!
October 15th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Was this post hilarious! It is decidedly so.
October 15th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
You know Natalie,
some people really are just that…ahem…stupid
October 15th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
LOL…
I want a Magic 8 Ball.
October 15th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
There are days when I really love this job….