FYI - he’s been dead since 1984. The speech was written in 1973. Sure, it’s touching. It’s a nice speech. But FUCKING MENTION THAT IT WAS NOT WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO THE WTS TRAGEDY IF YOU FEEL YOU MUST POST IT ON EVERY FROG-FELTCHING MESSAGE BOARD IN EXISTANCE!
Better yet, REFRAIN from posting it. I’ve seen it on every goddamn message board I’ve gone to. Now someone feels it’s necessary to send it to all 3000+ employees in my company. If you haven’t noticed, your co-workers don’t live in a vacuum. If you found it on one of YOUR message boards, chances are I’ve seen it already on one of mine. In fact, I saw it a year ago, when someone posted it on the bulletin board in the company break room.
I try not to jump on people for sending well-meaning glurge; I politely ask them to refrain. However, I’ve received the Sinclair speech twice today and the first sentence says, “Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator.” That was such a laxative (it irritated the shit out of me) – obviously I was not the only one to have that reaction.
Has anyone been spammed with a notice saying we should all stop in our tracks at 7:00 PM on Friday to light a candle? What is this supposed to show? That even though we are all emotionally distraught, we are still consuming scented wax? Jeez.
The thing says, “We Stand United,” but it doesn’t mention if 7:00 is Eastern, or Mountain, or what. I guess we all stand united, as long as we all live on the East Coast.
heh heh… No disrespect to my country or any of the victims, but I agree with the OP, enough is enough.
It was really funny hearing this dopey disc jockey from WYSP in Philadelphia who read it over the air today . . . instead of “ma” and “pa” it was “M.A. and P.A.”, and the guy who was co-hosting with him, who is a news anchor and should know better, said “That was a nice letter.”
There has been so much ignorance and misinformation spewing out of the media and radio stations the past three days, I’m ready to puke.
PEOPLE: PALESTINIANS ARE NOT DANCING IN THE STREETS IN NEW JERSEY. YOUR GAS IS NOT GOING TO BE $5.00 A GALLON. What next? :rolleyes:
I’ve gotten that damn Gordon Sinclair thing too. It was sent out to our entire company. I responded to it with this:
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I thought that was a civil way to address it. Apparently I was mistaken. Apparently I’m an insensitive prick. I just received this:
Well fuck you too. I am also hurting from this horrible tragedy. Pardon me if I have an interest in FACTS. I e-mailed her back (she was not the one who sent out the original) with this:
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I am still receiving flak, most of it is being whispered. FUCKING WHISPERED BEHIND MY BACK!
I ask you fine dopers: Am I an asshole for doing this?
Apparently, so am I. When I politely corrected my girlfriend much the way Athena did, she e-mailed me back to say she merely forwarded the e-mail and didn’t write the damn thing, and added “It’s really petty of you to try and score points off me during a time of tragedy”.
I e-mailed her back saying I just wanted to spare her further embarrassment, and suggested she remove the paragraph I quoted in my post earlier in this thread before forwarding that speech again. She’s lucky I thought better of adding this sentence: “If I sent you MLK’s “I have a dream” speech with a preface implying it was written in response to Tuesday tragedy, would you think it petty to inform me that King had been murdered decades ago?”
She hasn’t responded and I’m going to let it lay; like woodstockbirdybird said, she’s most likely too embarrassed to have been caught out by yet another hoax/glurge e-mail.
Whew, I feel better. Thanks all. Now a quick update.
Though I fear some in this company remain angry with me, several other coworkers* have made a point to stop by my office and thank me for sending the correction out. It seems that the vast majority are in agreement with me. I am glad to see that they aren’t all dense. It’s also good to know that I am not an asshole (well, I am an asshole, but I didn’t act like one in this instance.)
[sub]***it’s “coworkers” not “co-workers” right? I wonder because every time I see “coworkers”, I read it as “cow-orkers”. I am not sure how one would go about orking a bovine, but I expect the experience would not be pleasant.
I’m on the forward list of a FOAF, and I’ve finally gotten to the point of commenting on her useless stupid FWDs that a ten second search on Snopes would disprove.
When I sent her the Snopes link to the Life In The 1800’s, she said she’d prefer to believe that some of the “facts” were true. That’s nice, nimrod. I’d “Prefer” to think that Camelot existed (It was a silly place), and that international tensions could be solved with fish fights. I’d prefer to think that historically left handed Houstonians who are blond and blue eyed and are should be granted free gasoline for life. Damn facts!
What the fuck is the problem with saying “This is a speech that was broadcast over twenty years ago, yet it has as much significance today as it did back then?” Oh, yeah. Then you’d have to deal with those mother fucking facts.
Well, actually, yes it is. Our gas here DID get to $5.00 a gallon…and people were lined up around the block waiting to fill their tanks up. Some places it’s gotten to $6.00 per gallon.
I went to a place Tuesday that advertised $1.79/gal and offered it at $1.62. Apparently they were changing it so fast they didn’t have time to reflect it in the sign.
No, it was Sylvia Browne. She was on Larry King Live the other day and predicted that James Randi would find a copy lodged in his left ventricle.
It was either that or John Edwards spoke to Mr. Sinclair last Tuesday afternoon, who gave his implicit permission for his speech to be mangled and redistributed as “new”.
