[Rhodes22-list] Screw the subject line

[Chris Geankoplis]

MJM wrote:
2. "Aw c'mon. Who the @#$% is going to find out?"
-- Bill Clinton, 1998

..
 1.5 "Geez, I didn't think they'd get this @%#*^ing mad."
-- Saddam Hussein, 2003

and a drum roll please............!

#1. Change the @#$% subject line!
Ed K,  2006

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michel Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 7:34 AM
Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Screw up about subject line


> 11. "What the @#$% do you mean, we are sinking?"
> -- Capt. E.J. Smith of RMS Titanic, 1912
> 
> 10. "What the @#$% was that?"
> -- Mayor Of Hiroshima, 1945
> 
>  9. "Where did all those @#$%ing Indians come from?"
> -- Custer, 1877
> 
>  8. "Any @#$%ing idiot could understand that."
> -- Einstein, 1938
> 
>  7. "It does so @#$%ing look like her!"
> -- Picasso, 1926
> 
>  6. "How the @#$% did you work that out?"
> -- Pythagoras, 126 BC
> 
>  5. "You want WHAT on the @#$%ing ceiling?"
> -- Michelangelo, 1566
> 
>  4. "Where the @#$% are we?"
> -- Amelia Earhart, 1937
> 
>  3. "Scattered @#$%ing showers, my ass!"
> -- Noah, 4314 BC
> 
>  2. "Aw c'mon. Who the @#$% is going to find out?"
> -- Bill Clinton, 1998
> 
> ... and a drum roll please............!
> 
>  1. "Geez, I didn't think they'd get this @%#*^ing mad."
> -- Saddam Hussein, 2003
> 
>   
> --
> Watch out for this!! - it is going on right now at mall parking lots in
> the Southern Illinois area, might be in your area too.
> 
> Two good looking 18-21-year-old women come to your car as you are
> parking; one starts wiping your windshield with a rag and Windex, while
> the other comes to your window saying 'hi' while bending over with her
> blouse half unbuttoned, impossible not to look at, and when you thank
> them and offer them a tip, they say "no" and beg you for a ride home
> from the local Mall. You agree and they both get in the back. On the way
> they start having sex with each other in the back seat. Then one of them
> performs oral sex on you, while the other one steals your wallet.  I was
> assaulted last Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. 
> 
> Be careful!
>  
> 
> --
> When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious
> diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what
> with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning .. uphill BOTH
> ways .. through year 'round blizzards. Carrying their younger siblings
> on their backs ... to their one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained
> a Straight-A average, despite their full- time, after-school job at the
> local textile mill .... where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to
> help keep their family from starving to death! 
>  
> And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in
> hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard
> I had it and how easy they've got it!  But now that...  I'm over the
> ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the
> youth of today. You've got it so easy!
>  
> I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate
> to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
>  
> I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to
> know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up
> ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email! We had to actually
> write somebody a letter .. with a Pen! Then you had to walk all the way
> across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a
> week to get there!
>  
> There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to
> hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had
> to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually
> talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! 
>  
> And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to
> steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy
> of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!
>  
> We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone
> and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we
> didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had
> no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your
> bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!!
> You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! 
>  
> We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with
> high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
> "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy
> was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there
> were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And
> you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and
> faster and faster until you died! ... Just like LIFE!
>  
> When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium
> seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old
> broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just
> screwed!
>  
> Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15
> channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had
> to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were
> screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and
> walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon
> Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you
> hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you
> spoiled little bastards!
>  
> And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up .. we
> had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire . imagine that! If we
> wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it
> over the stove forever like an idiot.
>  
> That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too
> easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in
> 1980!
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-
> > bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of ed kroposki
> > Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 7:35 AM
> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Screw up about subject line
> > 
> > Previous email should have been to Hank, already have gotten on
> > Art's case about subject line.
> > 
> > Michael,
> > Then you should have changed the subject line in your reply to
> > SUBJECT LINE.
> > 
> > Yes, changing the subject line to the correct subject is easy to
> > forget, however, an appropriate effort should be made for the benefit
> of
> > those who hit the delete button on topics that do not interest them.
> Or,
> > more importantly, those looking for previous discussions of a topic.
> Some
> > discussions on this list make other list look like amateurs with no
> clue.
> > 
> > Ah, that cool breeze this AM gets your attention, and reminds
> one of
> > Shackleton's voyage in a 22 foot sailboat.  Here I am just waiting for
> an
> > ice berg to roll down the street.
> > 
> > Ed K
> > Greenville, SC, USA
> > 
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