I correspond by email with someone who overuses the Urgent flag. Her messages are never, ever urgent, no more urgent than anyone else's, anyway.
So today I had a bit of bad news for her.
And I marked it Urgent.
It felt so good. So good it needs an haiku.
Your urgent emails
Ricocheting back on you
Petarded hoisting
(*bows*)
Request read receipt:
Tch, could you BE more needy?
The power is mine!
Posted by: Big Dot | April 15, 2009 at 06:05 AM
Here's my thesaurus;
You don't know what "Urgent" means.
Please, look it up, dear.
Posted by: Tami | April 15, 2009 at 08:12 AM
Daily dilemma
Now what does petarded mean?
Thanks, dictionary
Posted by: #0.75 | April 15, 2009 at 08:32 AM
Petarded hoisting. I am adding that to my repertory stat.
Posted by: magpie | April 15, 2009 at 09:22 AM
But what I love best?...is the *bow*!
Posted by: Erin G. | April 15, 2009 at 02:55 PM
I just overcame my aversion to the apostrophe-deficient Visitors Map and discovered that I'm not a Big Dot at all, I'm a Big Square! That's much less cool!
Posted by: Big Dot | April 15, 2009 at 06:19 PM
Dot - "Big Square" is so 60s. Big Dot is very cool. ;-)
Posted by: #3 | April 16, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Big Dot - Sister-in-law sends even personal mail read receipt. Tch indeed.
Tami - She says urgent messages go to the top of the list so they are never ignored even if the reader has 300 mails a day. Still gsalling.
.75 - Petarded is really IN the dictionary? (Damn - looked it up - it was on Family Guy.)
Magpie - Relief. No one thought I was mis-typing the R word.
Erin G. - *blows kisses*
Big Dot - graphically, it's too hard to make a 2 pixel by 2 pixel circle.
3 - Well, I will leave you two alone.
Posted by: TheQueen | April 16, 2009 at 12:53 AM
I'm with Erin. The *bow* is the icing on the cake, as if 'Petarded hoisting' hadn't given me enough of a giggle fit...and the delicious confluence of e-mail, haiku, and Shakespeare - *wipes eyes*. You do rock, you know?
Posted by: Mare | April 16, 2009 at 04:12 AM
Queen - Actually I couldn't find it but I had already written the haiku. :(
Posted by: #0.75 | April 16, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Since a petard is an explosive, I just figured that petarded was poetic license.
You know, what with this being an actual poem and all.
Posted by: Tami | April 16, 2009 at 09:53 AM
This is really unhealthy, yanno.
Posted by: #3 | April 16, 2009 at 08:52 PM
Mare - *covers ears and looks away*
.75 - Now that's poetic license.
Tami - Without you I could never have spelled "license."
3 - No! I embrace it!
Posted by: TheQueen | April 16, 2009 at 11:46 PM