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November 08, 2007
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I was sitting in front of Rob's laptop tonight when someone IM'd him around 11:30. Rob was getting ready for bed, so naturally I wrote, "Hi sugar!" The person responded with "LOL". Hmm. I'm not buying it. Do people actually laugh out loud when they type that? I doubt it. Is it really that funny to make someone explode with laughter? I hope not. Then again, According to Jim is still on the air, so maybe it's easy to laugh at the mundane. Rumor has it, beginning December 1st, LOL is being retired from the Internet. Take note. ROFL.
Anyway, a few months ago, Jimbo -- who just celebrated his 2000th post and is now suffering from carpal tunnel -- sent me an email that someone took a dump in the bathroom at JR's and it stunk up the place. I'm always glad he thinks to notify me about such things. I reckon he did this cuz he knows I'm very anti-dumping in public restrooms. The odd thing was he cc'd a number of other people on this email. So, since he dragged all these innocent people into this shit, I replied to all explaining my position on public dumping.
This prompted a long reply-to-all discussion about it with all the other carbon copied kids. It got quite graphic, with Jimbo talking about dropping meatball-sized turds outside in a field while he was living in Kazakhstan. This was immediately followed by someone asking to be removed from "this email thread". Uh-oh.
I didn't recognize the name of the person requesting unsubscription so I asked Jimbo who it was. He didn't know. I'm like, "But you included him in the original mass email." He still didn't know. Then he looked at his list of contacts and realized he sent it to the wrong person, and that the guy was a colleague of a friend from years ago that somehow still managed to be included in his contact list. LOL!
Apparently several people didn't see this guy's request and kept replying to all about proper shitting etiquette. Poor guy -- probably a gentle Christian man having a rough day at work and then getting his inbox pummeled with potty humor and feces stories.
I realize this probably isn't funny to you at all, but I was seriously LOL and eventually ROFLMAO.
So, let this be a lesson: Be very careful when replying to all. Don't shit in public bathrooms unless it's an emergency. And don't forget about December 1st. LOL.
Posted by durban bud at November 8, 2007 12:12 AM
Comments
FOOMBLMAO (falling out of my bed, laughing my ass off). Ah, yes. Reply To All. My boss (owner of the company) once responded to an email from our customer service listserv to the effect of "my god, but these people are a bunch of asshole whiners", and, yes, it went out to every single customer of ours. Nannee nannee boo boo. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Posted by: Raybob at November 8, 2007 01:33 AM
You are not the boss of me.
DB: LOL!
Posted by: Jeff at November 8, 2007 02:05 AM
That's it, I'm unsubscribing. ZOMGLOLBBQ.
Posted by: Signalite at November 8, 2007 07:55 AM
So have you decided what we will use to replace LOL when it is retired?
Posted by: Herb at November 8, 2007 07:59 AM
So...who was the person who IM'd Rob?
Posted by: joe at November 8, 2007 08:26 AM
Love the post. I'm LOL! Really.
Posted by: Mark at November 8, 2007 08:42 AM
I LIVE for moments like that. Except when they happen to me.
Posted by: cb at November 8, 2007 09:52 AM
That reminds me of the bathroom at the Parthenon- worst experience ever.
Posted by: homer at November 8, 2007 10:57 AM
this is some funny crap!
Posted by: J at November 8, 2007 01:03 PM
it was mister fister, who was celebrating his birthday.
Posted by: the other half at November 8, 2007 04:58 PM
Damn, I never get on the good email threads.
BTW, my favorite internet acronym is: JEAOMK
(just ejaculated all over my keyboard)
Posted by: chrisb at November 8, 2007 05:19 PM
Of course, the one time I'm NOT included in an "e-mail thread", you talk about poop!
I'm like Sarah Silverman when it comes to that shit.
Posted by: johnny at November 8, 2007 06:00 PM
I rate this post a 9.6
Posted by: R.B. at November 8, 2007 10:02 PM
"ZOMGLOLBBQ"
"Zombies! Oh, My God! Laughing My Ass Off! Barbeque!"
Posted by: Raybob at November 8, 2007 11:41 PM
Well you know what the say? "Into every life a little shit must fall". OMFG LOL
Posted by: moby at November 9, 2007 03:44 AM
I was just about to post a poop story of my own the other night, but I figured it was too lowbrow for my clientele, so I hit the delete button. I guess I was wrong, eh?
POL - (pooping out loud)
Posted by: Bubala at November 9, 2007 10:10 AM
I think it's important to talk about natural body functions. It is the evangelical puritan roots in this nation's past that makes you feel shame and disgust about poop, and you don't even know it. People should talk about these things more often.
Still, I don't want anyone to start smoking poop.
Posted by: jimbo at November 9, 2007 12:31 PM
I prefer people crap in the restroom, than say, on the dancefloor, which is what is rumored to have happened at this year's Black Party.
The real problem is that too many restrooms are built without proper ventilation, are tiny afterthoughts added to meet regulations.
When you gotta go, you gotta go, and it makes no sense to walk around the bar with prairie-dogging anxiety.
Posted by: Mike at November 10, 2007 10:17 PM