It all began innocently enough. Someone wanted to send me a picture. I’m usually so smart about these things. I usually only give out my hotmail address; however with pictures…sometimes they are too large for hotmail. So I gave out my personal address. The person even joked, “I won’t send you too many jokes.”
Famous last words. They started slowly; a one liner here, a picture there. Now I like a good joke as much as the next guy. But if I am away on business, the sheer volume clogs my personal address to the point is no longer useful.
What do you? I mean you can’t really ask to be taken off the list. Well you could, but that would crush the guy. I mean he obviously lives for this. He never even asked if I wanted to be on his list…it is like he was just looking for email address like some spammer. Every now and then, he sends out an e mail apologizing that he is going on a trip and he won’t be able to give us our normal supply of jokes. (I wonder how many others are cheering).
I need a new kind of spam filter. One that deletes any urban legends, any feel good story that ends with, “send this to as many people as you know” or, “send this to 10 people in the next 10 minuets...don’t break the chain!” I need it to get rid of all the jokes I have heard too many times to count (unless they are really good ones that I like reading a second time). However, this filter needs to let through all the funny, dirty jokes…especially ones with pictures.
Well I have to go; I’m in the middle of reading this e mail about a guy who woke up in a bathtub full of ice with a note about his kidney…..
1 comment:
The sad thing is, most of them I like. So it is hard to say you don't want to get any of them...then you will miss the good ones.
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