Anyhow, I think this (sanitized) email speaks volumes. I'd analyse it for you, but 1) that might be a bit unfair to the dude, 2) my Voo Doo would be showing (as many a SIPB member is wont to say). Which is to say, it wouldn't be a nice sort of analysis. Despite the fact that, at the time, I thought we had a very pleasant conversation. But... the email is just too creepy to ever warrant calling him up. I'm similarly disappointed that the completely crazy guy I ran into over by Tosci's a few weeks ago hasn't emailed me yet. He was hilarious. He had a geode where the crystal inside looked exactly like Australia, and he had it copywrited and was going to sell it to the Australian government for fat wads of cash. He'd made these really nice prints of photos of it and everything. I was looking forward to his art gallery/halloween party announcement. Sad me. Anyhow, for your reading pleasure.
From: CREEPY DUDE
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 10:48:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Nice Meeting You
To: stupidwoz@wtfwereyouthinking.com
Hi ----, It was fun meeting you last night/early this morning. You have an interesting e-mail ID. As an Architect, "you" are an icon in classic form! I also have a Master's with concentration in Anthropology and Archaeology, have climbed Mount Olympus in Athens and stood as close to the Erechtheion's porch of the "Caryatides" (Archaeological alternate spelling) as I was to you when chatting from the ladder. Your personal character affiliation with this kind of statuary is telling of your inner sense of how you caption your role in life ...
Would really like to continue the "download" - seems we have much in common, and with a little exploring, will likely discover dissimilarities with good fits for exchange. Call me any time at the number I gave you - It's a satellite voicemail/pager toll free 1-222-333-4444. Gives about 20 seconds of voicemail, or you can tap in a reply phone number - gets to me either way in a few minutes after sending. If you want me to call you instead, you can e-mail me here with your phone or cell phone number.
Kindest regards, Phil
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As punishment for this post, I can't sleep. So I'm cleaning it up a bit.
Okay, I 'fess. What really grinds my gears is that he focused on some random, trivial detail; my "email ID" contains the substring "karyatid".
Caryatid \Car`y*at"id\, n.; pl. {Caryatids}. [See {Caryatides}.]
(Arch.)
A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the
place of a column or pilaster.
[1913 Webster]
Classic Greek architecture. See also: Fallen Caryatid With Urn and Heinlein's interpretation of such in Stranger In A Strange Land. Also a D&D monster from the first Monstrous Compendium.
It's odd to assert that I have a "personal character affiliation" with a caryatid. Olympus isn't in Athens. And I would never refer to a pleasant exchange between two consenting adults as a "download" unless one refers more to The Republic and the classical belief in the seminal transmission of knowledge.
Which would be, in this instance, uncool.
First things first: Thomas Hunter, sir, you are (Wahbygesture) awesome. "Tried and true," indeed.
Obviously this guy never read "The Rules." I mean, come on!
Rule #74: any likening of a real-world interaction to something two computers might do is grounds for a swift kick in the nuts.
Rule #23: a conversation that begins at someone's username ends badly.
Rule #114: anyone who refers to "The Rules" is a goddamn dork.
Well, shit.
-repak
Pops, Kris' employer is Catholic? I thought she worked for a hospital, and had a PPO or somesuch. Ick, in any case. Her doctor should have some method of prescribing a form of progesterone that isn't packaged as BC.
Riad, the fact that you use the (wahbygesture), as such, is comedy gold. 10 points for referring to the Rules. Isn't there another key rule, or maybe it's Goodwin's Law that I'm thinking of?
He is going to be mortified (instructively) if he googles you.
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