Years ago after--actually during--a period of wassail, some of us thought it would be hillarious to send a telegram to a friend in Idaho. The telegram read, "Please ignore first telegram." He was a football player, 6'4" and very HUGE. Of course, we had sent no 'first' telegram. Months later we heard that he was looking for us. Seems he'd driven about fifty miles through a snowstorm looking for the first message and we understand he became quite insistent that there had to be one. So insistent in fact that the telegraph office people threatened to phone the police and have him removed from the premises. We phoned him to explain. Cost us five cases of beer to avoid hospitalization. Cheap at half the price, IMO. We remain good friends to this day. It's funny now; it wasn't then.