This was the first month that really brought a flood of mail.  Well, a small flood, but there were at least 25 interesting mails this month.  Lots more than that total, but I'm not posting spam or dirty slang submissions or simple questions or that sort of thing.  Most of these were not posted on the site at the time they came in, so this is their first appearance.  If the interesting mail continues to increase, I'll probably start doing the mailbag bi-weekly.

Mails are presented chronologically.

Date: December 1, 2002
From: Brian
Subject: 

One could argue that Cleveland is the largest city without a major basketball team and hockey team. Go check the standings if you don't believe me.

Oh yeah, and Cleveland's airport is woefully inadequate too, surrounded by interstates in most directions, and the one direction they're trying to expand has a huge convention center. Oops?

At least you don't have a half foot of snow on the ground to get to it, too. Not that I'm complaining of course. Not me.

Nothing spurs argument more than a, "My city sucks more than yours." debate.  My opening comments that precipitated this can be seen here.

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Date: December 4, 2002
From: Bruce
Subject: Two obvious omissions and one not so obvious

My girlfriend and I were discussion alternate words for vagina, and I turned to your site for ideas, thanks!

Two obvious slang words missing are 'cunt' and 'pussy'.

The code-phrase we use is: "The center of the universe."

Thanks again for posting your webpage as 
a resource!

This is in relation to the dirty slang page. I've had other comments along these lines in the past, but as the intro on the dirty slang page says: 

...this page has only terms that I thought were funny, or at least really strange.  Saying "one-eyed monster" is funny, "dick" is not.  If you don't grasp the difference (pun!) then there's not really any way I can explain it to you.

Emails with additional terms are welcome.  All terms must pass our exhaustive screening process (making me giggle) before they are added to the list.  This ensures the highest quality in potty humor.

That's why I don't have bathroom stall lists of dirty words there.  I assume everyone reading knows the common terms, and if not you aren't in junior high yet, and shouldn't be reading this anyway.  I was initially planning the page to be an exhaustive dictionary of terms, but as I say in the page conclusion, it just wasn't any fun to read or compile.

I replied to him saying basically what you just read, and he came back with the following:

> It's not as if anyone doesn't know 
> the most common terms for things already, 
> after all.

Actually, *I don't*, that is why I was looking :) for a list of the common and uncommon slang terms for vagina.

Never-the-less, I welcome your website for exactly what you intend it to be, and thank you for going to the trouble of putting it on the Web for others to use and enjoy!

[perhaps I need to create a website about my take on this subject too!]

For some reason, *real* dictionaries avoid these slang terms, and even most slang dictionaries give it only slight attention. Your website is the most prominent site returned by Google that gives an 'unflinching' focus to the huge variety of the English slang sexual vocabulary. The subject is obviously important to us humans, and you should be proud that you have not shyed away and instead choose focus on it.

He's got a point, but I'm still not going to add every profane adjective on earth.  Just the ones that make me giggle.

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Date: December 12, 2002
From: Pascal
Subject: Serial Killers Fascination

Yes, it's fascinating! All those gruesome and weird stories about a person who finds pleasure in killing not one or two specific individuals but dozens of persons.

But you seem to enjoy it too. Either you are also in need of help or you have never thought about the pain and anxiety that their family have gone thru. All of the 60 missing women had a mother and a father, most had brothers and sisters, some had children and all had friends. That sums up to a lot of people who will find your interest in serial killers very sickening and as dishumane as the suffering that the victims had to endure. I suppose you have a mother, maybe a sister or daughter, and that you know personnally many women. It could have them in the pig farm remains.

Please try to find interest that will contribute to making this society a little better; there are a lot of other better things to do than relish on other people's crime and perversion. Especially Pickton's case. Or try to keep it for yourself : don't publish that on the net.

Seek help if you find my message to difficult to bear. Talk to someone you trust about your special interest and consider their opinion. Think about it.

All of which is true.  Yet wide spread fascination remains in Jack the Ripper, and Hannibal is a hero, and every other crime movie has a serial killer as the oddly-sympathetic hero.  I think a lot of people imagine if they could do it, or how they'd do it.  Could you murder people? Could you get away with it?  There's often said to be an inability to kill unless in the heat of the moment in self defense; people in movies often reach that point, and then back down, usually while sobbing, "I can't do it.  I just can't!"  See Sarah Conner in Terminator 2 for one example.

Being as I usually think how stupid the good guys are to not kill when they have the chance, I think I could do it.  Not to say I'd have shot the guy in T2, if I'd been in Sarah's position, but in the usual, "We've stopped the bad guys and their evil plan to enslave the world and kill us all.  And now that we have them, we'll give them a good talking to and/or put them in jail.  From where they'll inevitably escape and return to try and kill the entire world once again."  Basically every cartoon series in the last 30 years has had this in every episode, and the good guys are always noble and dumb, and the bad guys never reform and always come back to try and kill again. And quite often they do, killing tons of innocent people, but failing in their end objectives.  So by not taking care of the problem once and for all (AKA killing them) when they had the chance, the good guys are responsible for hundreds or thousands of additional deaths the bad guys perpetrate.

And no, examples from movies and cartoons don't have much to do with me taking pleasure in reading about the horrible actions of serial killers in real life.

It's a tough subject. Crowds are notorious for chanting, "Jump!  Jump!" at a potential leaper clinging to a bridge or the side of a building.  Are those people inhumane assholes who can't imagine how they would feel if it were their brother or wife or son up there?  Probably, but that's just human nature.  We depersonalize things most of the time, especially death, or else life is just a constant heart break over one tragedy after another.  I root for the serial killer to be caught and his murders to be put to an end -- at the same time I root for him to tally a lot of kills, and to do the deed in spectacularly gruesome ways, so I can read about the gory details later on.  And I'm glad it's not anyone I know being cut into fish bait.  And I'm not seeking counseling over it.

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Date: December 12, 2002
From: Dwight Meredith
Subject: Thanks.

Thanks for the link to some of our recent writing at http://pla.blogspot.com. 

Thanks also for reading.

No, it's not an especially interesting email, but it's one of the first times anyone has written to thank me for a plug, and is the first time anyone has done so w/o knowing about the plug from seeing it here. I'm assuming this is a sign that enough people read my post here, and clicked to link to show up in the site stats there, and he followed the referral link back here out of curiosity, and saw what I'd written.

In the future this won't be anything to me, as the traffic here keeps growing and anything I link to will count on dozens or hundreds of hits, but for now it's nice to feel that I have some sort of power.  I remember years ago on the D2 site, in May of what was probably 1999 I posted some stuff about E3, mentioned the upcoming game Black and White, and posted a link to their official page, which was a very cool flash site with a lot of good info. It's been redone since then, and I've not looked at it, so I can't really say if it's as good or better or worse.

Anyway, the next day the webmaster of the site mailed to say thanks for the link.  I asked him how many referrals he'd gotten, and he said something like 5000 in two days, which was like 80% of their traffic for the whole month, or something like that.  We (D2 site staff) all walked around with an erection for about 3 days after hearing that.  Yes, even the girls.

Bonus irony: Black and White finally came out at least a year later, after endless delays, was big for a bit, and has now faded into oblivion, while D2 and the D2 site are still nearly as popular as ever.  So the link was sort of us showing them the torch, rather than passing it.

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Date: December 13, 2002
From: Bryan
Subject: Marshall's

It depends on the time, honestly. Some days it's absolutely hellacious. At my store, at least, they had the ability to have four cashiers at any one time, especially during the holidays, though it wasn't always enough. Especially considering going to four cashiers usually meant we only had one or two people on the floor, plus a manager if she wasn't busy, to run price checks.  The most horrible invention in the world, the Marshall's price check.

<BEEP> "Lindsay to register one for an arena one price check. Lindsay to register one. Thank you!"  <BEEP>

Horrid. Our really good price check people could usually turn it around in about two minutes, but that's still ridiculously long. The worst is when the same product has been sold out, and usually the area reps are good at knowing that ahead of time and sometimes they even know what it used to cost, so they'll bring an item that cost that. Which invariably leads to customer complaints that it's not the same item so we have to wait even longer for a manager to come and say "yes, but it's the same price." Worse is if we then have to go generate a tag because only at the customer service desk was there such a machine. Horrid.

>It looks like hell to work there, with everyone angry
>about the wait every
>single time they get to the register.

It wasn't the greatest, especially for only $6.75 an hour.  But it was a summer job that was usually low on physical labor. So long as you survived the mental trauma of stupid customers, you were usually ok. 90% of customers were great, but it is a discount clothier so there's a guaranteed 10% of idiots a day, mostly ticket swappers who try to get a leather coat for $10. I know we give good deals, but honestly people. It has an ink tag on it. INK TAG! We don't tag anything with ink unless it's over $100. A rare item gets to be $80 and still have the tag, but $10? hahah... funny.. or not, you be the judge. At my store in particular too, the cashiers had to do processing during what slow times there were. I never want to see another box of shoes to tag and lable again. Or hand bags. 

But that's another rant..

This was his reply to my reply to his original mail, which came in reply to my blog about the annoyances of Xmas shopping for women's clothing.  Yes, I know, it's such a "guy" thing to bitch about. My initial comments were posted Dec 12, at the bottom of the update, if you want to check them out.

There are websites with nothing but reports from disgruntled workers all through the service industry, and basically everyone who ever had such a job could add their own tales to it.  Most people can't write an interesting description of events, even if they have a good story to tell, but you can get the gist of things, at least.  I write about the idiocy at work from time to time, but I try not to be too nasty/honest, since after all, I could in theory get fired for it.  I don't tell anyone at work about my website, but that's mostly since I don't really know them or care about their opinion on things.  And I don't want people in real life asking me about whatever I was popping off about on here yesterday.  True, most of the stuff here is my actual opinion, but I'm usually exagerating somewhat, and able to be a lot more honest about things than I would face to face with someone, especially since they might have personal beliefs that would at great odds to my comments.

What does that mean anyway?  Okay, I'm worried that some Christ Crispy in the company office would get their knickers in a twist over some comments, dig up other comments about the job, misrepresent them and screw me over.  Basically.  I almost expect this to happen, eventually.  And I would probably not mention anything about work at all, if I actually wanted to keep the job.  Read Flux Gets Fired for background details.

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Date: December 13, 2002
From: EFRAME
Subject: Stupid website and article

Hey Einstein: I thought your article on movie editing was inane, poorly researched and written, and plain stupid. There is a huge market for edited movies. If you'd done your research, you'd know that there already is a foreign market that gets edited movies that Hollywood keeps from the U.S. market. The directors already are getting a lot more money because these stores buy more videos to edit to a population that wouldn't see them otherwise. It doesn't appear you graduated from college or you would have had the basics in economics. Why do you criticize others that don't have your views? Why are people weird that don't want sex, profanity and violence? From your website I can tell you're a loser that wallows in the muck of humanity. Sit back and watch as good people spend their dollars where they want and create new markets.

I was sure I'd posted this on the blog around the time it came in, but I can't see it in the archives, and a search for a phrase from it comes up dry.  So I guess this is the debut. It's one of the best flames I've gotten, and I do enjoy getting them.

He is referring to the blog entry that later became the Clean Flicks article, in which I talk about the legally-dubious practice of companies taking films, editing out the dirty parts, and then selling/renting their neutered versions.  There is apparently a pretty good market for this sort of thing, mostly amongst very religious types who feel a need to keep themselves shuttered from realistic depictions of reality.

His mail is clearly from the PoV of someone who supports removing anything potentially objectionable from a film, and not from a film maker.  As the serial killers mailer said, put yourself in the place of the victim.  You've spent 2 or 3 years of your life creating a film, working 12 hours or more almost every day, editing it, doing the sound, working in the special effects, etc.  And you finally complete it, release it just as you want it to be, and some assholes chop out whatever they see fit to chop out and start reselling it without your permission.  If I were that director, I'd think about hiring some mafia guys to burn down some Christian video stores, personally.

That aside, the mailer never addresses the real point, which is if this is legal, or should it be.  Most movies get a PG version made to show on TV and/or airplanes, but that one is official, with the blessing and assistance of the director or at least the movie studio.  Clean Flicks is just chopping up whatever they like, and they have no legal right to do so, since it's altering copyrighted material.  There is an argument to be made that movies should be censored for viewers who can't take them in their pure form, but the emailer didn't make it.

Though I do enjoy his, "From your website I can tell you're a loser that wallows in the muck of humanity." line. That one is catchy.  He's probably the type who read every word on the dirty slang and sex acts pages, twice, all the while thinking how horrible it was that someone would put that sort of thing on the internet where children might see it.  People motivated by imaginary things unsettle me.

(Oh wait, I did finally post it on the 17th.)

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Date: December 14, 2002
From: BRIA478
Subject: Chilis

To whom it may concern, I never been to Chili's before and I talked about it all weekend about going there, and when I got there to sit down and ordered my food, it took about 35 minutes for me order to be ready and I was there with my aunt and her husband, I order the baby back ribs and chicken and she also ordered the same thing and her husband order the steak, to be a big disappointment the ribs were not good, his steak was not done all the way the corn on the cob was the driest corn on the cob I have ever seen and the waiter was not the type of material for the job, because she ask us was we ready to order if not she do not have time to stand around and I did not think that was nice! Of course the manager came out and talked to us and payed for every thing and gave us a free dessert, but I think that things should have been better, because that is a resturant you would not think things like that would happen like you would at a fast food resturant, so I will not be going back there again. I think there serves need to be a lot more better.

This rather breathless account of bad food and worse service arrived, unheralded, with no intro or conclusion.  Just this.  Not even a signature.

That is one thing I notice about email, and especially about AOL emailers.  They don't see to ever include any form of salutation, and very seldom a signature.  You know, like a real letter would have.  It's just a sort of long-form instant message.  The other thing that I notice is that they never have a real name for their sender.  It's just their email address, usually something like ParteeGrrl4321@aol.com.  That's a hypothetical, BTW, but not at all different from the ones I get every day at the D2 site.  I don't know if it's impossible to enter your sender name as anything different than your email, or if it's just that by the time people learn that much about how email works, they bail from AOL and get a real ISP.  Or just use @hotmail or @yahoo to hide their shameful connection.

Anyway, as for this letter, what can I say.  He went to Chili's and it was suxor.   The mail was obviously occasioned by my "review" of Chili's, which now that I look at it is pretty much lacking in introduction or conclusion as well, and is very similar in tone to the email.  So perhaps I inspired his formless form.  I've not been to Chili's in months, since the last few times there the food was crappy, and my usual dining companion (and father) hasn't wanted to go either.

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Date: December 15, 2002
From: Bryan
Subject: Black Champagne

I would like to express my displeasure at Yahoo! Mail and it's damnable time out crap. I had a great letter all written but no.. so now you get the abridged version.

The link to your comic review page doesn't work from the links page, but it did somewhere else. I don't remember now where I accessed it, but it did work.

In the letter somewhere was a rant about the premium member crap of Keenspace as spawned by the fact that I couldn't read the back comics of Pentasmal because I wasn't a premium member.

Later I mentioned checking out MegaTokyo by Fred Gallagher as it's a good comic well drawn with enough humour and lasting story arcs to make it a well balanced comic.

I finally mentioned that your site is very interesting and I look forward to reading it. I also like seeing stuck up bitches get their due, so your essay portion was especially good today. I also find interest in relationships and how humans treat each other, so I never mind when you start lapsing into diatribes regarding such..

So as he says, there was more, but it was eaten by the browser-based email service he uses.  I hate that; half the time I write a good post for a forum, it seems like it crashes or times out while I'm waiting for it to go up.  I've learned from experience that it's best to do a cut and paste of whatever you're trying to post before you hit "submit" or "preview".  The D2 site news script is hell on eating posts if you try to preview them, and typing it out again with all of the <a href=" crap is tedious, especially if you have to go find all of the links you had included.  Again.

He obviously saw the online comics review page, where I say how good the old Pentasmals were.  I haven't looked at them in years, but sucks they are unviewable if you don't become a premium member.  They're not exactly the best comics in history, but I liked the guy's wit in them.

His closing comment is in relation to the blog from December 15th, in which I relate a time that I (entertainingly) delivered a comeuppance to a stuck up bitch.  Not that I would have exactly described it as such, but I can't really argue his appraisal, no matter how harsh his wording.

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Date: December 17, 2002
From: Doug
Subject: Devine Urinal

It's amazing to me as I look out across the pristine, frozen plane that I survey, that the grey wolf, in all his pride and prejudice when urinate in the snow. Instincts notwithstanding, what would motivate him to empty his bladder on this beautiful canvas of Gods'?

No, I don't have any idea.  Check about 10 days later for a follow up mail from this fellow.

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Date: December 18, 2002
From: Mike
Subject: Quote

"Asteroid fields are about as dense as Japanese tourists in Nebraska."

Very, very funny. I don't laugh out loud much, but I did when I read this..

Nice to hear I proved amusing.  I do not know where this quote came from, but I vaguely remember writing it.  Possibly in one of the Star Wars reviews.

You never know what will strike someone funny, as I'm learning weekly with the D2 column. I also hear a lot from people that they don't often laugh out loud.  Or at all.  That seems quite sad to me, for I "LOL" dozens of times a day, quite often at something I've just written.  But also at jokes or comments by other people, and sometimes even at cartoons, though that's much rarer.  I am loathe to ever say, "LOL" when someone says something funny in chat, perhaps since I laugh out loud so often it doesn't seem worth remarking upon, and also I'm supposed to be the funny one.  Other people laugh at me.  Me!  My jokes!  You no funny! Me funny!

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Date: December 21, 2002
From: Tuty
Subject: On ruffling feathers, the former Mrs. Tom Cruise, etc, etc...

If you are in the constant habit of viewing issues objectively and immodest enough to dream of becoming famous, then good for you. I wouldn't have it any other way. Have you thought about a career in freelance journalism? You could have a wider platform to make comment on whatsoever you like, even if it ruffles the feathers of a few corrupt politicians and those who waste money to get them elected. This is my honest opinion, and one which I hope will be taken seriously, as I look forward to reading your own syndicated column sometime in the near future. Judging from the regular postings on your website, the con artists running the media industry will have something to look out for.

But I am also looking forward to the day when the US finally inaugurates its very first freethinking
President. With the delicious ex-Mrs. Tom Cruise No.2 for First Lady, standing proudly by her man through thick and thin, for better or worse, come what may. Just don't let her get carried away to the extent of converting the entire Senate to Scientology, will you. But there is such a thing as the power to veto, even if it has to be used against Nicole Kidman.

Okay, this is like the best mail ever.  It's clever, thought out, detailed, well-written, and somewhat creepy.  There's nothing she says that I don't provide the information for, with my regular Nicole Kidman comments, but it's still sort of weird to see it all put together and back at me.  I mean this is the sort of thing I'd write in a sarcastic and weird way, so it's strange to see someone else say it.

Long ago I was driving a new semi-girlfriend home from class after college.  We had talked in class and lot and on the phone, and felt pretty close, and we might even have had sex a couple of times by then (I don't remember the exact chronology).  So we were close, but not falling in love, and hadn't really spent that much time together, aside from in class.  Anyway, I was driving and we were talking and bonding, and some car in the next lane came about halfway over to my lane, forcing me to change lanes to the left to avoid them.  And she (the semi-GF) banged on the window and shouted, "Hey, one lane per customer, buddy!"  Or words to that effect.  There was no way the car could hear her, since it was night and the windows were closed and we were going 65MPH, so it was just a comment for herself and for me to hear.

I was convulsed with laughter and delight, since that was so much what I was thinking, and what I might have said except that I didn't know her that well, so wasn't being totally open or "myself" as they term it.  And didn't know how she'd take me yelling at a car in the next lane.  She turned to look at me, wondering why I was giggling so, and I tried to explain, and did a horrible job of it.

I said something like, "I love that, it was just what I was thinking.  You're like a female version of me."

At the time that was all I could think of, but in retrospect it's a really dumb comment. No one wants to be a version of someone else, and certainly not a person they hardly know.  I think she took it neutrally, I don't recall any comment about it then, and we dated for some weeks after that, so it didn't exactly poison the relationship. But it's still a really dumb comment.

Funny how that's about my most vivid memory of interaction with that woman, and we knew each other on and off for about 3 years, and dated (had sex) for a while early on, and then again like 2 years later.  You'd think I would have some other more meaningful memories, and I do, but that remark in the car is one thing I think of regularly.  Usually when someone else seems to think or says something just like I was about to say. Which is what makes me think of it now.

Digression aside, this mail from Tuty is wacky, but delightful.  She first wrote and was quoted on the page on Dec 18th, commenting on the Honor/Shame in Islam article.  I replied to her and quoted her next reply the next day, in which she asked me if I'd ever considered running for office. (I said I was totally unelectable, at least in America, and would never run for anything given our current lobbyist/corporate donor "purchase a senator" election scam, where you must spend $50m to have any chance of being elected to anything.)

A few days later the mail quoted here came in.

I'm pretty sure that if (when) I do become famous enough to score Nicole Kidman (or some other famous actress of equivalent fame/talent/facial beauty/tight-assedness)  spending all of my time in a high pressure/long hours job like President of the US would be near the bottom of my "To do:" list. If I were president I wouldn't be the afternoon nap/constant vacations on the ranch type Dubya is.

Or perhaps I could make my desire to do other things part of my campaign strategy, like the old days (1700's) when it was deemed unseemly to actually want the political power, and you had to campaign very half-heartedly, with a whole, "I do not want this, but someone must do it, and the others so-eagerly seeking office are not fit for dog catcher."  I'd have the advantage now since all of the others running for the spot wouldn't be saying the exact same thing about me.  Unlike in the old days.

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Date: December 24, 2002
From: Dave
Subject: 

vant to touch da titties he-he-he

I assume he's mailing in regards to the Boobies article, which has something sort of like that for the email link.  I thought it was an amusingly-short mail, at any rate.  The fact that he sent it late Christmas Eve adds to the fun.

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Date: December 27, 2002
From: Dave
Subject: Wow

Ive seen alot of closeminded garbage on the internet and everywhere else for that matter. i just wanted to say I agree with your point of view 97% of the time after reading just 5 articles nice to see that some out there looks at things from all sides and have a fairley unbiased opinion and a sense of humor regarding touchy subjects.

I will have to look at some of your D2 stuff.

Sincerily ,
Some Internet Surfer

I thought I'd put in at least one straight "you rock" email, since my fragile little ego requires stroking every now and then, like a demanding feline.  So he likes the open-mindedness here.  Or possibly we're just close-minded about the same things.  I also like that it's from a person who wasn't ensnared by my semi-regular self-plugging on the D2 site, but actually found their way here in some other way, probably from a search engine.

One day my army of readers will dwarf the D2 site's traffic, and links from me there will be Elly's only hope!  Mwahahaha!  Of course that might be the case in about five years regardless of what I do here, with the game like 8 years old at that point.  Been to any Sim City fansites lately?

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Date: December 25, 2002
From: Russ
Subject: What happened to Joanne Whalley?

Check her out in "The Man Who Knew Too Little" - very attractive. Especially in the French Maid outfit!

Russ

 

Date: December 30, 2002
From: Steve
Subject: willow is Joanne Whalley good looking

i think that she is englands best actress and she is very the fit ist and hotist eva. i think that sayng that is is ( she doesn't look good in a single one of them) is wrong she is a very good actress in all of here films

from a williams 15 15 years old

Grouping these two mails together, for obvious reasons. These are in regards to the Joanne Whalley article, where I wonder, at length, if she was beaten with an ugly shovel after Willow.  Well more precisely, if she were beaten with the ugly stick as a child, received a quick thrashing with a "hot as hell" stick just for her part in Willow, and then fell victim to the ugly shovel immediately afterwards.

In other words, she's mediocre in everything else, and fantastic in Willow.  What's odd is that she's in her early 20's in that, and other movies made around the same time she looks at least 4 or 5 points less "hot".  Movies made before and after Willow.  Her decline has continued to this day, and she's sort of an ugly Julianne Moore at this point.

For the first mailer, here's a bunch of shots of her in The Man Who Knew Too Little.  She's not hideous, not all bug-eyed and pasty like in some of the UK TV movie pictures.  But I don't think she looks very good. Maybe the body is nice as she's hopping about in that thigh-baring costume, but I can only go by the still pictures.  I wouldn't actually have known it was the same woman, just by the French Maid outfit pics, her face is so much older.  The three shots of her with the short brown hair are not good though.  She looks like her mother.

For the second mailer, I recommend an English tutor.  I mean good lord, it's like an AOL audition.  On topic though, I have no opinion of her acting.  I've only seen her in Willow and she was acceptable in it.  Nothing memorable other than her appearance, but it's not like anyone else in that is exactly worthy of an Oscar.  I'm purely judging her attractiveness, based on seeing her in one movie and seeing pictures of her from others.

My judgment stands unchanged.

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Date: December 31, 2002
From: Doug
Subject: One must reconcile his own existence somehow

Furthermore, the grey wolf must be concerned with where his next meal is coming from. Do any of us? Are we ever so concerned about our very survival that we are reduced to securing our most basic of needs? Would we trudge through chest high snow for days for a can of spaghetti? Do not mock the wolf. Who are we to denigrate such a creature. So the pristine canvass of white is slightly stained by his bodily wastes. I can live with that. It will snow again soon, painting his yellow trickle back to the colorless, pure, redemptive white that we strive for. 

Keep fighting the good fight

GP/(45)

This is the second wolf urine related mail from this guy this month, and I have no explanation for either one.  It's a nice way to end this mailbag though, with a reminder that the Internet can be a very weird place. (Not that I imagine too many of my readers need to be reminded of that by now.)

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