memo

[fox]

to:  my aunt
from:  me
re:  e-mail

okay, you've got to stop.

the jokes, the cute things with animation, the endless forwards -- just stop.  you've had e-mail too long to still be doing this crap.  also, may i alert your attention to snopes:  wearing a ponytail is not going to make me a rape victim.

fried out from writing papers into the middle of the night,
me

Comments

[orange852.livejournal.com]

Replying the link to the debunking article at www.snopes.com has deterred more than one forwarder to my inbox.

Absolute failure to reply to anything not family-related finally got through to my mom, but your aunt may be made of sterner stuff.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

it'd probably work on my aunt, but i don't want to give the impression of -- well, of saying exactly what i said above in the Memo She Will Never See, which is that i am sooooo much more worldly and internet-savvy and all the rest than she is. if my mother (or their brother or other sister) or one of my cousins did it, i bet it'd go over better. (actually i'm sure it'd go over fine if i did it. but i'm okay with just clicking "next" rather than upsetting anyone. [g] also, i sent the snopes link to my mother, and my brother and i have both mentioned it before, so who knows, she may one day say to her sister, "you know, the kids showed me this debunking-urban-legends site ...")