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The Greatest E-mail Exchange in the History of the World
by kev on July 30, 2007 

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I was made aware of the Oscar the Cat story by my brother, Tim. He emailed me a link to the article. Later, after I wrote my blog post stating my belief Oscar the Cat was a serial killer, I sent Tim an email with a link so he could go read it. And so began the greatest email exchange in the history of the world:

Tim: Not your best work… You could’ve done better.
Me: It’s comic gold and you know it.
Tim: It’s funny, but you could’ve made it better.
Me: Probably, but my brain isn’t working today. Our coffee machine keeps breaking. Also, I skipped lunch. Bad decision.
Tim: You just jumped into the accusation of a killer cat feet first… You needed to set it up a little better.
Me: I did set it up a little…with my “which is more likely” rhetorical question.
Tim: It was very weak.
Me: Weak like a fox.
Tim: Yes, weak like a sickly, decrepit fox with muscular dystrophy.
Me: Have you ever met a sickly, decrepit fox with muscular dystrophy? The thing can still bench 400 lbs.
Tim: Have you ever seen any fox? They weigh at the most 15 pounds. Plus, they don’t have opposable thumbs, so they can’t bench anything.
Me: That’s what makes their brute strength all the more impressive.
Tim: Again, they are physically incapable of benching anything.
Me: Which, again, makes their ability to bench press 400 lbs. all the more impressive.
Tim: Except they don’t have the ability to bench press 400 lbs.
Me: Which makes their ability to overcome and bench press it anyway all the more impressive.
Tim: But they can’t overcome.
Me: Which makes it all the more impressive that they somehow do.
Tim: Except they don’t.
Me: And yet they do.
Tim: That’s the thing… they don’t.
Me: Except when they do, which is always.

I’m sorry, did I say this was the “greatest” email exchange of all time? I meant the “lamest.” I always get those confused.





7 Responses »

  1. Wow… so you get “greatest” and “lamest” confused, huh? That explains SO much - thanks!

    –sorry, but you really set yourself up for that one, and I couldn’t resist :)

  2. Yes, I guess I sort of set myself up for that one.

    This word confusion also explains my glowing review of the Mariah Carey movie “Glitter.”

  3. Sorry, Tim, but I’m with Kev. A fox who can’t physically can’t bench press but then does it anyway? I’m gonna go ahead and file that under “Impressively Awesome”.

  4. Well I already told you this the other day but I will tell you again (because I too think Tim is dead wrong on this)…this is one of your best pieces. I was laughing so hard I was crying (something you are very good at making me do). I guess I should also say that even if it wasn’t one of your best pieces I’d still disagree with Tim, just for the sake of disagreeing with him.

  5. No, I’m going to go with “greatest” email exchange, even if it started out a little weak…:-)

  6. Thanks! See, I’m with all of you - this e-mail exchange was comic gold.

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