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EMAIL ETIQUETTE
DUMB STUFF I SAW ON THE ROAD
BEFORE & AFTER
TASMANIA MANIA
THE SOPRANOS
200
'Don't type in all these--the reader might think you're yelling'
capitals
200
'A 1987 Accord (made by this company) said "four sale"; something tells me you can talk the seller down'
Honda
200
'Al Gore's environmental film that's a drug administered to get a subject to spill the beans in interrogation'
An Inconvenient Truth serum
200
'This large carnivorous marsupial was declared endangered in 2008'
the Tasmanian Devil
200
'He played a stuntman-mobster in "Get Shorty" before becoming the big boss Tony Soprano'
James Gandolfini
400
'Ask before sending a big attachment; big or small, this office product usually represents it'
a paper clip
400
'A minivan bore a "Child in Car" sign, an obvious ripoff of this sign from Safety 1st Corp,; C'mon, spring for the original!'
"Baby on Board"
400
'Star of 2008's "Incredible Hulk" who is a software program that gives spyware protection'
Edward Norton Anti-Virus
400
'Abel Tasman, the explorer for whom the island is named, first charted it in this century'
the 17th Century
400
'This "jersey boy" made several appearances as mobster Rusty Millio, till he got whacked'
Frankie Valli
600
'If you email in this "directional" fashion to group recipients, don't disclose everyone's email addresses'
forward
600
'A store had this word after "ATM", making it redundant; what a waste of money on that sign!'
machine
600
'Houston Rockets center who ruled over China from 1368 to 1644'
Yao Ming Dynasty
600
'It's the ocean to the east of Tasmania'
the Pacific Ocean
600
'For business or pleasure, Tony & the boys frequented this strip club owned by Silvio'
the Bada Bing!
800
'Let people know their message was received; sometimes email falls prey to an overeager filter for this'
spam
800
'A cinema marquee says "The Dark Night", leaving this letter off the Batman title; Seriously? No one notices this?'
K
800
'Coldplay singer known for portraying Jiminy Glick'
Chris Martin Short
800
'Illegal almost everywhere, the growing of these poppies for medicinal purposes is legal in Tasmania'
opium poppies
800
'On a trip to L.A. Tony's nephew Christopher jumped this "to have and have not" star & stole her gift basket'
Lauren Bacall
1000
'If not all the recipients know each other, don't give out their addresses--use bcc, short for this'
blind carbon copy
1000
'To the guy with a "Perot/Choate" bumper sticker: scrape it off already! they lost their White House bid in this year'
1996
1000
'Jack London story about the dog Buck who joins a Nick cartoon about Eliza, who can talk to animals'
The Call of the Wild Thornberrys
1000
'The rough waters of Bass Strait separate Tasmania from this Australian state'
Victoria
1000
'Lorraine Bracco played Tony's therapist & this director-actor played Elliot Kupferberg, her therapist'
Peter Bogdanovich