more entertaining chain of e-mails sent across MIT campus
subject: Found iPhone (NOTE: e-mail was CC'd, NOT BCC'd, to all the dorms)
Found an iPhone at the entrance to Building 1 & 5, across from Maseeh. Looks like it belongs to a "Danielle." email me at derekj@mit.edu if it belongs to you.
Shall we start the bidding off with $50 of Max's money?
$100 worth of Bitcoin.
I am so glad you found this phone! It belongs to very important Nigerian businessman MR. OLUSEYE OJUMU as gift for his only dauighter and lost it right before my current trip. He has been very distraught and offered a $100,000 REWARD in DOGECOIN to whoever find it.
Please send his daughter email to CHINUA "Danielle" LAGOS ( chinua.lagos@hotmail.com) for fuller directions on how to send me phone and small processing fee to receive your reward. THIS MONEY YOU DESERVE!
an iPhone, an iPhone, his kingdom for an iPhone!
iPhones? No way! Those use non-free, user-enshackling software. That's why for my mobile communication needs I rely exclusively on carrier pigeons.
yeah at least make it a GOOD flame war, jesus christ
Found some natural fertilizer at the entrance to Buildings 1 & 5, across from Maseeh. Looks like it was dropped by a carrier pigeon. Will sell for $52 of Max' money.
Stop spamming all the dorms.
(I realize that I am spamming all the dorms to say that, but it's been over an hour and people are still emailing.)
Wow guys. It’s super obnoxious to reply-all to an email like this and try to derail the discussion. This was just someone trying to be helpful and spread the word about a lost iphone, and you had to go fill everyone’s inbox with spam. I hope you understand how discourteous that is.
I know you think you’re being funny with your “trolls” and your “flames,” but you’re really not. Finals are coming up and some of us are using our inboxes for really important academic emails right now. Thanks to you, I’ve had to mute an entire conversation that I wouldn’t otherwise have had to. I hope you’re happy.
Your living group ought to be ashamed. I hope you know how much of a bad impression you give of your living group when you reply-all like that. They have a responsibility to teach you about the email norms at MIT and they have clearly failed.
This is why you use bcc.
This is how we get ants.
Aw, this is probably my last flame war... *tear* will miss muting these emails... :P thanks for the rookie mistake, it's been too long since we had a good war of flames.
Sounds like you need a flame-war finder.
Excuse me sir. For you to imply that my "flames" and my "trolls" are of any less merit due to my immediate living group is extremely insensitive and obtuse.
Additionally, my ancestors have been cultivating our $100 in bitcoin fortune for generations, and I would like to think at this point that we have the right to buy any iphone we would like with it.
Now please, stop spamming these poor folks' inboxes, and come fight me in real life if you have a problem.
This isn't even a flame war, it's friendly banter. I mean, now that people are complaining about it, it's getting there, but geeze.
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For $100.0000001 in Bitcoin, I will buy the iPhone and a link to Next's i3. How about that?
(note: Next House is a dorm.)
Unsubscribe.
(Note: this message was sent by unsubscribe@mit.edu -- clearly not a real person.)
Let's turn up the heat a little bit.
Baker isn't shit.
(Note: Baker House is a dorm, and is generally regarded as the most "mainstream college"-like of all the dorms, from quad-occupancy rooms to large parties.)
This is the best thread of all time
> important academic emails
Like what, your professor made a typo? I wish people wouldn't waste all our time with these emails, I love reading the words of my glorious professor and how he admits his mistakes in his beautiful prose and is therefore revising the pset the day before the pset is due. These flame wars are trading off with time that I would rather spend rereading my class emails again and again to make me happy because my happiness comes from nowhere else. Stop it guys, please.
And then there is a partial reply-all that sub-circulates:
>> Oh no. >> >> Is a thread developing inside another thread? >> >> Oh >> >> oh geez
>> Let's get the next-cameracomm fire extinguishers out.
> Nikon fire extinguishers or Canon?
If we keep on adding more people, maybe we can spawn a thread inside a thread inside a thread. Or get back to the original thread.
Trees hate fire. I protect trees. Stop flaming.
My self-identification as a flamer is an essential part of my queer identity, and I don't appreciate your attempts to silence me.
PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE
Seriously guys. I'm tired of people emailing threads "unsubscribe." It doesn't freaking work!
Just go to webmoria and deal with it yourselves don't annoy everyone else!
Come on people. If you're doing it because you think your "trolling" is "funny" then you're just wrong.
(Note: WebMoira is a webpage where users can manage their e-mail list subscriptions.)
As long as I don't think about the server load of sending stuff like this back and forth, these e-mail chains are pretty amusing.
Especially in their later stages, when people start posting things like entire chapters of the Book of Mormon and Atlas Shrugged or the entire Wikipedia article on Vlad the Impaler.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
What's really bizarre is that Columbus is more populous than Boston
(I know, I know, that's only counting the cities proper and not their entire metropolitan areas, but still)
I've noticed that there's a few of us who tend to nonsense-post, and then there's another group of us who tend to conversation-post (or content-post or whatever you want to call it, but basically something that's not nonsense).
Well, we frequently all do both, but more like, based on what each of us individually tends to do more often.
I mean, it's one thing to post something on a whim because you thought it was cool. It's another thing to post something because it's this random idea/thought you had and you just wanted to throw it somewhere to see how people would react to it, without much care for relevance.
So, like, right now, based on the threads that are cropping up to the top, it seems that the contentful-posting people are around, while the nonsense-posting people are mainly not around.
I guess you could count me as a nonsense-posting person. Though when people just keep on actually talking about stuff, rather than talking about nothing, it's just not exactly as fun to post loopy disconnected bullshit.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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subject: Found iPhone
(NOTE: e-mail was CC'd, NOT BCC'd, to all the dorms) (note: Next House is a dorm.)
(Note: this message was sent by unsubscribe@mit.edu -- clearly not a real person.) (Note: Baker House is a dorm, and is generally regarded as the most "mainstream college"-like of all the dorms, from quad-occupancy rooms to large parties.) And then there is a partial reply-all that sub-circulates: (Note: WebMoira is a webpage where users can manage their e-mail list subscriptions.)
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Especially in their later stages, when people start posting things like entire chapters of the Book of Mormon and Atlas Shrugged or the entire Wikipedia article on Vlad the Impaler.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
http://mitflames.blogspot.com/2007/10/found-item-cosmetics-bag.html
thanks, Yarrun
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
if I ever move to a different part of the country, the lack of Arbys' is going to be the biggest adjustment.
That's a good game, btw, especially now that they've fixed most of the stability issues.
I deeply apologize for sending all of our German-speaking readers into conniptions.
yntkt
Well, we frequently all do both, but more like, based on what each of us individually tends to do more often.
I guess you could count me as a nonsense-posting person. Though when people just keep on actually talking about stuff, rather than talking about nothing, it's just not exactly as fun to post loopy disconnected bullshit.
I still see it that way but I've also come to understand that some people use this place as a general chat area.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
then the letters "WLHTHEKHQRKOXUPZ" are written on it, with dropshadow
the result is left as an exercise to the reader...or so itliterally says below it .
i think the point is more so, i feel bored, let me poke something to see how it reacts.
it is significantly less interesting when it doesn't react, of course.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
:-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DreamWorks Animation owns all of the non-publishing rights to Where's Waldo
Which aren't worth a lot (other than licensing Waldo out to costume manufacturers?) but still