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What kind of emailer are you?

by Matt Beaumont
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Jack-e Collins
Her breathless emails usually begin with ‘you won’t believe this but…!!!’. No tit-bit is too small to fan into a firestorm of hot, hot, hot gossip. Close scrutiny of her PC will reveal a disproportionate amount of wear on the ‘!’ key.

e-nid Blyton
Like the best purveyors of literature for the immature, this lad (he’s usually a lad) always illustrates his work. He’s particularly fond of brightly coloured pictures of comedy genitalia, urine-drinking monkeys and ladies engaging in friendly hugs and kisses.

My personal favourite is the picture of the foreskin being nailed to a floorboard, which manages to both charm and inform (well, I didn’t know you could do that with a foreskin). Recently e-nid and his ilk have faced the sack from employers who haven’t taken well to their cheery pictorial exchanges – humourless, book-burning fascists, the lot of them.

Jeffr-e Archer
Forget your reading glasses. You’ll be better off with a machete because reading his emails requires you to hack through layers of clumsy construction and tedious repetition to reach the sense beneath. The trouble is that when you get there you invariably find it wasn’t worth bothering with in the first place.

Tom Clanc-e
This tech-head spurns any attempt at engaging his readers in an emotional, character-driven narrative. He much prefers to give them an arcane jumble of technical jargon.

Where Clancy has detailed descriptions of the workings of nuclear-powered hunter-killer subs and laser-guided smart bombs, this boy writes about LAN servers, ISDN links and other things I haven’t a bloody clue about.

But, listen up, Hollywood, his emails would probably make excellent action flicks starring Denzel Washington or Harrison Ford (and I understand that Alec Baldwin comes fairly cheap these days).



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Created: 19/02/2004  Updated: 19/02/2004
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