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Thread #37065   Message #516765
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
28-Jul-01 - 04:23 PM
Thread Name: Help: The last thing I want to read...
Subject: RE: Help: The last thing I want to read...
So, anyone on the Cat who wants to get in touch with me, send me a PM instead of an email. Aside from anything else, it doesn't get lost in the spam.

Moreover, the free email forwarders I use has just decided to ration users to 25 emails a day, so that doesn't leave all that much room for real emails once the spam has been deleted unreasd. I mean the real soam - all the get-rich-quick and the dirty postcard brigade. The Space Invaders whom I blast with Block Sender - but there are always more of them coming up behind.

I'm afraid I tend not to open any threads about viruses, because i can't understand them. And if I do understand them, I get worried. I'm the same with articles about illness.

"The last thing I want to read" is a nice ironic ambiguous phrase. For example, what Litle Hawk wrote: "The last thing I would want to read just before dying would be a spiritual text or a philosophical text reminding me of the goodness of life, humanity, and creation" - you could read that either way. In context it was clear LH meant it unironically. But I can imagine Brendy writing exactly the same words, and I wouldn't see it as meaning the same thing at all.