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This Official E-Mail From The State Of Oklahoma Got Someone In A Lot Of Trouble
Culture Buzz Can you spot why the Oklahoma Insurance Department had to apologize profusely after this e-mail was sent to hundreds of people? This mass e-mail asking for nominations for awards at the National Tornado Preparedness Summit has one very unusual criterion. Busted (works on a few levels here)!
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Insane Investment Banker E-Mail, Presented By American Psycho
Culture Buzz Excerpts from the alternately hilarious and horrifying e-mail from a jilted investment banker to a woman who would not go on a second date with him, presented by Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman. Read the whole, sad thing here. Typos and creepy stalker language are all his.
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Epic Whole Foods Resignation E-Mail, Presented By Cats In Whole Foods Bags
Culture Buzz A disgruntled ex-employee of a Whole Foods in Toronto fired off a very cranky farewell e-mail to his former co-workers, referring to the grocery chain as a “faux hippy Wal-Mart.” Here are some selections from the massive missive along with some photos of cats in Whole Foods bags. Names have been redacted to protect the underemployed. The entire sprawling screed can be read at Gawker.
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Joke About Indian With One Testicle From Sarah Palin’s E-mail Dump
Culture Buzz To be absolutely clear, she had nothing to do with this. It was forwarded to her, and she wisely appears to have let it die in her inbox. Unfortunately for political reporters, this awful (AWFUL) joke was the most interesting thing to come out of the e-mail dump from Alaska.
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Image: Dear College Republicans
Thanks to the following “reply all” to a mass invite for “Conservative Coming Out Week,” a professor at the University of Iowa is in a fair amount of hot water. Liberals using politically incorrect language and conservatives getting the vapors over vulgarity. You've just enrolled in Bizarro College.
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Man Takes Adult Kickball Very Seriously
Culture Buzz A hilariously spiteful e-mail from the captain of an adult kickball team in Atlanta who was apparently under the impression that people took the game seriously. Here is that e-mail, with names redacted and grammar left uncorrected. It is presented alongside photos of adult kickball that convey the stoic dignity this team captain obviously thinks the sport commands. Joke.
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Can Muslims Be Good Americans?
Politics Buzz According to an e-mail forwarded by this Kansas state legislator, nope. Joe Seiwert, a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, says he was passing along information and not opinion. And Carl Paladino only forwarded bestiality porn because he's an amateur zoologist. Anyway, it's good to see Kansas reclaiming its bigotry crown from us elitist New York Islamophobes.
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Link: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Is Embracing the End of Email, Here’s Why
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“If you want to know what people like us will do tomorrow, you look at what teenagers are doing today,” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told the audience at Nielsen's Consumer 360 conference yesterday. And according to Sandberg, only 11% of teens email daily—clearly, a huge generational drop. Instead, they are increasingly turning to SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communication.
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Seriosity
Tech Buzz This Palo Alto start-up thinks you’d have an easier time sorting through your inbox if all correspondence was “paid for” in a system of currency — called “Serios” — that attaches different levels of priority to each e-mail. But, much like the eternal “if a tree falls in the forest” question, will your mom consider her political blooper forward as urgent as a direct memo from your boss? (Answer: Uh, yeah.)
