I got an e-mail today, the entirety of which was "Hi."

This is consistent with the ongoing trend towards shorter and shorter messages. The problem, of course, is that there is little left to remove once you get down to "Hi."

I suppose I will now get several messages saying either "h" or "i," after which everything I receive will be completely blank.

After that, someone will come up with a way to create negative-character-count e-mails (which, of necessity, will have fewer than zero letters in them), containing less than no information whatsoever.

I am convinced this is possible, as so many have already managed it with their profiles.

i've gotten a question mark.

You may be farther along in the process than I am, then.

At least I have another thing to look forward to!

yessss.
i'm in first place.

I actually received 2 messages this week that contained multiple (2 or more) sentences

I think I'm in a different sub-group

Dearest Lex,

We are sorry to hear of your recent plight, regarding insincere emails. In light of this, we have sent you a heartfelt, sincere email, regarding the Holiday season. We do hope it finds you in good spirits, and look forward to your reply.

Regards,

Mark

Once I got a huge dot shoved up my azz so far that for a week I couldn't connect it with anything.

It turned out to be one that was missing from an internal email from Prez Obama to some dry cleaners in South Hokkaido, and they were extremely glad when I returned it, because finally they could close the accounting books on literals and exclamation points for the fiscal period.

This showed me that the republic is safe from having our president's dots stolen from us or taken by force.

You are in a sub group? Hehe. I bet there is a long line up there.

I am still in the sub-sub-sub-sub group. Dirt is good eatin' here. Yumm.

Oh, Joozus Kris, Marcecea... when did you get here? Now I'll get kicked out for sure for being stupid and obnoxious.

I claim... I claim... the fifth. The fifth of your kingdom. Call it a settlement.

I am not drunk. I think I just fogot to take my pills. Same difference.

OMG, I got an e-mail with complete sentences and actual content!

Thank you, Mark!



Oh wait, this one here is a forum post.

But the e-mail was nice, too!

IDK if Lex and henderson are subs - we;ve never talked about sexual prefences

The meatball sub at Subway is really good.

Some guy emailed me saying hi. So I responded with the same. Then he asked how I was and I did the same. Then he told me I was boring and he had been waiting for me to reply with more. Uh, you put little effort into it, you get little effort in return!

Well Lex, I've already received the completely blank e-mail....but it was offsite. I mean completely blank. No name or ID, no subject, no message. I get at least one of these a week now.

Very odd.

And disconcerting.

I've actually sent you several negative character count messages. You will not only not see them, they will delete any single character messages that you have in your box. Two of them will delete one "Hi" message. So you may have been getting more "Hi" messages than you thought, only my messages deleted them.

As I believe education is the cornerstone to something or other that stems from education, I tried sending a few of these people messages that said "You'll have to do better than that." None of them took it well.

That could have been from me.

This is why people always have problems understanding quantum mechanics.

That's hilarious.

They are truly "boring" and they have the nerve to call you "boring."

Those are the kind of men who expect you to entertain them.