First, First, Again & First

Time to open the stupidest inbox in the blogosphere. Please store any excess IQ points in your desk drawer because reading some of the things in the inbox may cause you to misplace a few. Tonight’s drink warning applies both to spitting and spilling…from waving your arms around. Welcome to Friday Follies!

A First

Tonight, you are in for a new Folly. In a first for M3, last week’s Friday Follies got its very own hatemail. Hatemailing from Michigan, Marcia wanted to call me to task. She did not take the normal tack of admonishing me for airing M3’s dirty laundry in a post. She was not even concerned for the identity of my victims. Can you guess what had her riled up at me?

Are you always so cruel? These lovely people came to you out of geniume concern for the safety of the people you could be putting in danger by blogging. You should be writing posts to clarify the concerns these people have so you are not creating more victims.”

I have already admitted in a SEP M3 is my first time actually reading some of what I write. Mostly, I read it to see what in the world the hatemailers are seeing. This one had me reading the 26th edition of Friday Follies and the posts again to see if somehow I could see what could be misinterpreted. Alas, my reading comprehension is too high.

What did I send her?

Despite rumors to the contrary, all of my victims survived, and no charges were filed against me. I am still hung with the tag Cruel and Unusual, but I rather like it.

M3, like most other websites, carries terms of service and legal disclaimers in The Office. Feel free to read them at your leisure. M3 is not responsible for any readers misinterpretation and routinely suggests therapy for those who do misinterpret.

As to my treatment of those who hatemail M3, you must have missed the portion of Friday Follies where I specifically answer all of the hatemail personally. Occasionally, I do use form letters when I get a group of people who are shy on intellectual capital and/or reading comprehension. Please do note the post script for this response, as it may apply to you.

PS M3 is not responsible for any errors or misinformation based on Google Translate’s inability to properly inflect idioms, sarcasm or humor from American English.

Does anyone know of a competent mental health facility in the Detroit area? Marcia may be in need of services. Or is it me because I think this picture is hilarious?

Of course you should dress your baby up for Halloween...as your entree!

You Are So Right

Mantra has not been doing a good job of staying away from the inbox crazies. She came under fire this week for Just Write Poetry. Unlike other posts and poems where writer’s block has been the subject, tonight’s hatemailer tagged me with another first. Hatemailing from Utah, Mark was very disappointed.

It is entirely possible to write your entire life and never use such language.”

But, Mark was not the only one to notice the first [expletive] to hit M3’s posts. In a hatemail from Virginia, Lawrence was also (nearly) nonplussed by reading Poetry.

When web sites who claim to be wholesome and helpful stoop to using such language they validate all the gangsters and wrappers who think it is OK to use a foul mouth all the time in person and in song.”

Am I the only one who conjured the image of a large present wrapped in a doorag and giant wristbands with a huge gold rope chain as a ribbon and a giant bling tag on top?

And it was not just the men who went ’round the bend. Lita hatemails from New Mexico to complain about the sailor talk as well.

What a horrible example to give budding writers and poets! People like you who think you have to use foul language to impress people make this world a terrible place. You should not encourage such things. Before you know it, all of our literature will be nothing but slang and curse words.”

Wait for it… After opening the fifth hatemail venting about my abusiveness, I decided it was form letter time.

M3 does not come with a warning label because the American public has deemed the words used therein as suitable for any child over the age of 13. Furthermore, impressionable children and young adults are routinely advised to use the Internet with caution. Minor children should always be under the supervision of an adult when surfing the Web. Please have your parent or guardian read this message to you so they may set the parental controls appropriately to limit your access to the Internet.

Knowing expletive is a trending search term for M3, I am quite secure in my position the English language, as well as its American counterpart, are safe in my typing hands.

Play it again, Sam!

I have recently resorted to sending myself email. As if the more than 500 emails I get per day were not enough, I needed to see what header I was sending to people. Surely, a mislabeled email header was the only way I could attract this many of the same person.

*SIGH*

When I got my email, it came appropriately from Momma’s Money Matters. No help there. I was certain I was broadcasting from a suicide help line…not hot line…help line. Why? The torrent of email on last weekend’s Saturday Evening Post. It is the one night were we take a very personal look into life, specifically my life and the ways it intertwines with M3.

For a fifth time, welcome a hatemailer who completely misses the point. Shanna hatemails from Colorado.

I hope somebody files a complaint and has your website taken off the net. In case no one informed you, since you obviously do not know how to research or read about these things, assisted suicide is illegal in the US. At least when you go to jail for helping people kill themselves they will pull the plug on this God forsaken blog.”

Perhaps someone with superior SEO knowledge than mine can explain to me HOW these people find M3. Suicide is not, I repeat not, a trending search term on M3. In fact, I am the only one who has internally searched M3 for the word.

Maybe after reading the post, you can tell me what she is seeing. Any clue what I should write back to Shanna?

Tribute

For the first time, M3 is going to publish a hatemail which was meant for an M3 Reader. I have always withheld the nasty retorts and hatemail which comes from the discussions we have in the comments. As a general rule, the posts get hatemail, so it follows the discussion will ruffle more feathers when the M3 Readers explore the portions of the topic left unsaid.

If you were here last Sunday, M3 put up a post named Per Request. After the SEP, Laurie of Wondering Through Life asked me to give the writer’s version of the poems Shanna misunderstood. I was happy to oblige, as Laurie spends her time writing on request. (Not to mention, it is fun when someone asks where poems that old originated.)

A hatemail from Newfoundland arrived late Thursday evening. Jarrod had a mouthful to say. The pertinent part follows:

Hasnt Laurie heard of email? Or the telephone? Couldnt she just write in like everyone else. What a complete waste of time. Nobody cares what the writer meant to say in a poem. POETRY is about what the people reading it get out of it. Unless the poet sucks. Then you have to give an explanation because nobody understands it.”

Now, I am the first one to admit I am no stellar poet, but I have to say, the ensuing conversation after the SEP had a number of people pegging the intent even if they had no possible knowledge of the inspiration. Since this one is shared with Laurie, I am going to let her answer back. Feel free to chime in with suggestions.

Not in my Yard

Is it a far leap to understand MAD stands for Make A Difference? I know I break all of the capitalization rules by making the acronym stand out, but is it really that bad a breach of grammar for a Nazi? I am doing it for a good cause, after all. Yet again, we have some mad complainants about the MAD post this week.

Honorable mention goes to Katja, hatemailing from the Ukraine, compliments of Google Translate.

I cannot to meet my neighbors what live by me. The man would kill me for to go to his house. He eats dogs.”

The remainder of her mangled hatemail was a mildly paranoid rant about apartment dwellers of  her recent past and drunken parties. I Google Translated her back.

You have nothing to fear. Humans taste more like chicken than dog.”

Happy Labor Day!

Some of the hatemail which fell to the cutting room floor ranted about neighbors who:

  • refuse to mow
  • own junk cars
  • park crooked
  • play loud music
  • Christmas lights up in June, still
  • have parties (without inviting them)

Gizelle beat them all. She intimately described her five nearest neighbors from Arkansas. Some were from the list above. One, however, stars in the following excerpt from her hatemail:

It would not be so bad if the neighbors who like to swing were attractive people. How do you politely tell someone you would rather do it yourself than do it with them?”

Let’s get interactive. Since this was a last minute addition to Friday Follies, I have not drafted but one response. Thumbs up or thumbs down?

If you prefer not to be confrontational, may I suggest an anonymous post card or email. I do suggest one with good graphics so you message is not obscured, similar to the following:

Alternatively, you may use one of my favorite lines, as I have been using it long enough it can no longer be considered copyrighted until I put it into print. It may also do well as an e-card:

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And that is a wrap from the stupidest inbox in the blogosphere. Tune in next week for the 28th edition of the M3 Friday Follies. I hope you week has be free of hatemail, thongs, redneck neighbors and expletives. Until next week, have a great weekend!

What shall we tell Shanna? And does my answer to Gizelle meet with your approval? Do you have ideas for Laurie?

Just a bit of business: The Weird-O-Meter poll will be closing tomorrow. Please vote on the term you think is the strangest way to find M3!

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  1. Gak

    I don’t know where to start, so let us just start with suicide, no no no. I even went and did a google search. You didn’t come up. Not even when I searched for assistance.

    Wrappers? Really and truly I think we can pass this one. My vision is black shiny paper with gold plated chains that are peeling .. I can’t help it. The cards would all say F**K it.

    Leading into, I love the Thongs!
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    • Red

       /  June 1, 2012

      Oh, do you not just want a Festivus pole surrounded with those gifts??? ROFL!

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  2. Laurie

     /  June 1, 2012

    Jarrod,
    I’m sure you’ll find that Red has sent this to you exactly as I wrote it. Please find someone to read it to you as you seem to have a lack that capability.

    Yes, I have heard of email and the telephone but I would prefer to voice things meant to be said publicly, publicly. Have you heard of the apostrophe or preschool grammar? From the lack of meter and annoyingly infant like stance I can tell you must be in your sixth year of first grade. One must be able to read in order to write.

    How I spend my time would be my business. Now, run tell your aid it is time for your medication, you would be bothering grown folks.

    “Bless your little heart” and may you learn to only voice those opinions someone cares about. (You will find yourself mute for the next century if you put this into practice.)

    Best regards,
    Someone that actually gets paid to write for a living. Laurie 😛

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  3. Laurie

     /  June 1, 2012

    oh pooh, I got a typo and an extra word…..edit me.

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  4. The typos fairies are out tonight like fireflies 😉

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  5. G. Devan Smith

     /  June 1, 2012

    That just goes to show you got love all over the world.

    Now, I may have chilled on the cursing, but that doesn’t mean I’m a prude. These people kill me.

    And the one about kids on the internet? I bet you that woman NEVER watch her kids’ online usage.

    And when I grow up I wanna be a gangsta WRAPPER!

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    • Red

       /  June 1, 2012

      ROFL! Wait, you’re not a grown up? Ah, PFT. I used the word “shit” in a poem. This is a bad case of “OMG are you stinking serious?”

      Good to see you tonight!

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  6. Well Red, I can tell it’s Friday night again. Nothing better after a long week than to come home, kick off the shoes, lay back the recliner and start reading your loads of laughs. I don’t know where you find the idiots, but if you get an overflow, send some my way. Why do you get all the fun? As for the thong, you could have kept that to yourself. It looks somehow vaguely familiar. Oh well, have a good week. I’ll check my subscription again next week. God Bless You, Grant

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    • Red

       /  June 2, 2012

      Even this post says I have no idea where some of the manage to find a link here!

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  7. Please refer Marcia to Henry Ford Kingswood where she can get the help she needs.

    Tell Shanna that no one ever committed suicide by reading a blog, but that if she wants to try not to tell anyone since attempted suicide is a felony in Colorado, however, it is no longer a capital crime.

    No ideas for Laurie, but your advice for Gizelle hits the mark pretty good.
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  8. ANOTHER HM
    Dear all I have come here from a mail forwarded to us from our god fearing brithers and sisters who are doing the noble job of reading the blog ,sending a hate mail and then forwarding both to all of us equally god fearing innocent human beings
    infact by now the number of people who hate M3 have grown so big that we have become a Nation ..and it will be called ANTI- M3
    i was such a naive innocent husband and god fearing women and following what lord had made women for…keep silent at all times
    but now i use gangsta language and write poetry which is blasphemous
    other day i called my husband saying-YO WHAT’S UP GEE,to which he replied YO BABY and then i came to know he was reading M3 too !!

    god help me as i join all my brithers and sisters who are neglecting house work and their kids just to create awareness against M3
    Katja- i know what you mean by he eats dogs,sista blame M3
    Shanna sista i feel bad but even if she goes to jail she wont stop she will keep writing from there ,may be we should call the aliens to help us
    -concerned god fearing husband fearing wife
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    • Red

       /  June 2, 2012

      ROFL! I think you have found a really different Muse, Soma! *giggles*

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    • Red

       /  June 2, 2012

      Oh, my! Everyone needs to read THAT one! That is so fabulous! Glad to see you tonight LS Bear! <3

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  9. Shakes head and watches brains disintegrate. The dust is getting thicker. Aggghhhhh!
    Jo Ann Schlicker recently posted..Shelter for Life’s StormsMy Profile

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    • Red

       /  June 2, 2012

      LOL! Good to see you this morning, Jo Ann. Welcome to the Friday Follies! You need to leave a link to your blog in the Green Room.

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