June 23, 2006

I've told you before Skippy, use a bloody ashtray!



Here's the picture I included in my quiz about Aussie stuff yesterday. I thought that the kangaroo with a ciggie hanging out of his mouth would give away the fact that the rest of the picture is perhaps also misleading... but clearly I was mistaken. Plus, he's drinking it with a straw, what self respecting Aussie would do that??

Today I would like to say thanks to all the people who e-mailed me! No particular reason except that there's been a bit of a drought in the mail department recently and so when I found six mails waiting for me to read earlier on I was very excited indeed. You can never receive too much correspondence. Unless you are hella famous and perhaps have someone stalking you. That would be too much. Also it might be too much if you are dyslexic and find reading a real pain the arse. Or if you were receving heaps of correspondence from people you didn't want to hear from and they were sending banal crap or those chain letter thingos... actually there are a lot of ways that lots of correspondence could be a bad thing now that I think about it. I take my previous statement back, or revise it to; you can never receive too much correspondence from those you want to hear from who have something worth saying. Yep.

And what is with chain letters while we are at it? Do people actually believe that if they don't send it on they will get the badluck that is foretold? Because that is a whole other level of illogical thinking. It simply doesn't made any sense for you to believe that a letter typed up by an ordinary Joe Schmo can bring you good or bad luck, even if you believe in such a thing as good and bad luck itself. These letters never claim to have been written by anything like the omnipotent being that God is supposed to be, so what gives it the power to terrify people into forwarding them on? Or perhaps people really are just sheep and if The Letter says to send it on, they will.

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