The Types of Emails not to Send Us (websummit.net)

Post by joshu » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 7:25 PM UTC

microcentury wrote: post #18

I would bet my house this is supposed to be a joke. It just falls slightly short of the mark in a way that's hard to define, and so looks like it might possibly be serious. It comes from the same school of humour that occasionally gets Irish people arrested by Homeland Security when they're asked if they have anything dangerous in their bags, and they roll their eyes and say 'Yeah, a bomb.'

Post by joshu » Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 12:59 AM UTC

edanm wrote: post #22

joshu wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law I think the followup emails make me think it is serious.

The second email made it seem more obvious it was a joke to me.