My laugh of the morning

Those of you who are currently on, or who have been on, bounce mailing lists such as Yahoo! Groups will be familiar with the person who forgets they're on a list and how to unsubscribe from it. They then send a one line message to the list saying "unsubscribe", but instead of being unsubscribed, the entire list gets the one-line post.

I got a "twist" on this situation from one of my lists today:

On Jan 1, 2006, at 4:01 PM, {name deleted to protect the guilty} wrote:

unsubscribe

{to which someone replied:} Sorry. You are subscribed as a "life member" and your request cannot be completed.

Thank God the holiday season is just about over

I really dislike the Christmas and New Year holiday season here in Ould Blighty. Everything shuts down or has morbidly shortened hours, so you never know when anything is open. Everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING!) shuts down for Christmas Day, with the exception of the corner stores owned and operated by Muslims. No public transport, no large stores, no nothing. Again, on New Year's Day, everything is shut. Today everything shut at 5 pm.

Tomorrow the world regains its equilibrium. Stores are open normal business hours. The shelves are almost free of Christmas junk. The first trayful of chocolate Easter eggs will be put out in Tesco's.

God's in her heaven, all's right with the world.