I am the "webmaster" or our local cycling club (yahoo group) & I posted today's ride with a start time of 5:15 p.m. & distance at 150 miles. I had two emails from club members asking if 1. it was accurate and 2. if we could finish that distance if we didn't start until 5:15!!!
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04-01-2008, 06:12 PM #1
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04-01-2008, 06:21 PM #2
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left a note for boss to call Ellie Fant
the number was for the local zoo.
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04-01-2008, 08:39 PM #3
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Nice one! You just made me think of a bunch of good ones a person could pull in a hospital (having these fictitious people paged overhead):
Originally Posted by sandra
left a note for boss to call Ellie Fant
the number was for the local zoo.
"Angie O'Plasty, to the cath lab, stat!"
"Billy Rubin, to the liver transplant unit"
"Vee Tac to telemetry, please."
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04-01-2008, 11:00 PM #4
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this was my prank. it went to all 1,500 women in the club. lots of women appreciated it. one woman didn't realize it was an april fool's joke and got pretty femi-n@$! on me via half a dozen emails.
http://velogirlscoaching.blogspot.co...-for-2008.html
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04-02-2008, 05:14 AM #5
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Nice one Originally Posted by velogirl
That one woman sure wasn't the brightest bulb in the box, though...
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04-02-2008, 06:16 AM #6
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That one woman would have made the prank entirely worthwhile for me, but then, I like to get under uptight peoples skin - kind of like a hobby! Originally Posted by velogirl
NICE!!
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04-02-2008, 09:11 AM #7
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Boy, I would really like to read her emails! Originally Posted by velogirl
(The letters section is one of my favorite parts of the newspaper.)
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04-02-2008, 09:21 AM #8
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My friend has chinchillas and is on a chinchilla forum. They posted a message about how they were going to start charging people to post, and if a member wanted to be inactive they'd have to pay for that too. My friend was pretty angry--and not amused when she learned it was a joke.
The problem is, it is entirely believable that that particular forum would do something like that! They are really mean spirited there. You have to have x number of "validated" posts (posts with useful information) before you can ask questions, another level lets you post without pre-approval, and finally, apparently, once you reach what can only be described as god-level, you can also be demeaning, condescending, rude, etc. When she was relatively new she tried to post something along the lines of, "Hey, can't we just get along?" and she was reprimanded for being disrespectful.
I keep telling her to drop that forum like a bad habit. I would never put up with it.
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