# Look, I'm as patriotic as the next guy- SO SAVE YOUR FUCKING EMAILS!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 13, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422 "2001-09-13T19:24:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/21 "2001-09-14T13:30:49Z")
The worst part about the deluge of glurge is that you don’t even have to argue it or debunk it to be branded some sort of emotionless terror. I mentioned to someone that I was deleting the prayer chain requests my sister was sending me (I’m not going to write her back and tell her not to do this) and they were saying, "Would it kill you just to forward them? _Some_ people are trying to cope with this. All you have to do to be a heartless bastard, apparently, is NOT be sending this stuff out. We’ve also begun the wave of “If you’ve never given blood until now, fuck you! You should have been doing this all along!” or “Fuck you if you didn’t own a flag until today!” Apparently they’re giving out prizes for Most Religious, Most Compassionate and Most Patriotic. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/22 "2001-09-14T14:01:04Z")
SEALEMON, thank you for clarify that. I second everything you said in your post. I continue to be amazed at the number of assholes who show their true colors under circumstances such as these. ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/23 "2001-09-18T12:06:57Z")
"For Tonight Monday September 17 Pretty impressive and another statement to be made if everyone participates… 10:30 EASTERN TIME… 9:30 Central, 8:30 Mountain, 7:30 Pacific I just heard on the radio that the U.S. has asked that everyone step out on their lawns tonight at 10:30 and light a candle. **They will be taking a satellite picture of the U.S. and posting it on the news tomorrow morning. Please pass this on to as many people as possible."** HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! WHAT a bunch of SUCKERS!!! YEAH RIGHT!!! I wonder how many moron rednecks were standing outside their trailers with their candles . . “Hey Martha, we’s gonna be on tee-vee!! HEY JL! Turn up that thar Lee Greenwood song!!” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/24 "2001-09-18T15:50:48Z")
Maybe we should start a Loyalty Oath Crusade, like in Catch-22. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/25 "2001-09-18T20:35:57Z")
One of my cubemates forwarded some numerology idiocy to me in work today… He’s also forwarded the Nostradamus crap and the slide show. I figured out that he’s tending to take his cues from me - when I tell him how moronic I think it is, he does too. If it wasn’t all so sick and if I could keep a straight face, I’d pretend to buy all that nonsense just to jerk his chain. At least I got him to pass snopes cites on some of the worst of this… He may be trainable yet. ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/26 "2001-09-18T21:22:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Harvey \* > \*\* > > There’s also a secret message if you use Wingdings 2. > > “Stop! ET is THAT way!” > > \*\* LOL! 😃 I tried it with Wingdings 2, also, but couldn’t figure out what it could be said to mean. Reminds me of the tabloid I saw last night: Gasp! Hillary Clinton is having an affair with an alien! (Supposedly the same one that got WJC elected in 1992…) Pathetic/hilarious, take your pick. :rolleyes: Oh, and a new smilie: ;j Cool or what? ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/27 "2001-09-18T21:32:41Z")
I hate the slide show worst. It manages to be both hokey and horrific, what with the stupid crying eagle and the terrible pictures of the people falling. Those pictures were the worst for me and I can’t look at them at all, and you’re sending them out as a slide show?!? I clicked on it because I didn’t think that a member of my own family would send me anything too awful. I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/28 "2001-09-18T21:33:53Z")
I think Wingdings 3 is a dance chart from Arthur Murray. Looks like the Electric Slide to me. Or maybe it’s the Tango; I never was much of a dancer. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/29 "2001-09-18T23:02:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sealemon88 \* > \*\*Hey, **mswas** , please explain how **jodi’s** reply to that steaming heap of horseshit was “contrived” or “kneejerk”. She didn’t reply with predictable, rote patriotic replies, and she didn’t belabor the obvious. > > Our government was responsable for the deaths in Pittsburg, Washington, D.C. and New York? Fuck you. No one ever claimed the U.S. was Magical Happy Fairy Land, but nothing our government EVER did deserves an unprovoced attack on civilians. There is NO justification for terrorism. > \*\* Pay no attention to him, **Sealemon88**. He’s been spreading that crap all over the boards. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/30 "2001-09-18T23:31:58Z")
The crying Eagle thing would be bad enough if it was done well, which it isn’t. If I get that picture emailed to me one more time, I’m gonna hurl. ---
**Author:** ![Waldo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Waldo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waldo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/31 "2001-09-19T07:59:31Z")
OK, wingdings is the same everywhere, and it might be a coincidence that it “reads” out like that for NYC, but isn’t there a certain sexual phrase that you can put into MS Word and get back an answer with AutoCorrect or Spell Checker? I’ve actually seen it done, but I don’t remember the phrase. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/32 "2001-09-19T09:03:52Z")
**Waldo** - it doesn’t work in the current versions of Word, but it used to be the case that if you typed “zzz” (as in the soound of someone asleep), spellcheck suggested “sex” as a corrected spelling. Wits worldwide concluded that this meant that Bill Gates dreams of the dirty. Obviously. pan ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422/33 "2001-09-20T04:00:48Z")
So, **Vinnie** lives in Catawba County, **Cisco** lives right down the road from him, and I used to live in Cabarrus County. Freaky. I wonder what would happen if you put _that_ into MS Word and changed the font to Wingdings… 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-im-as-patriotic-as-the-next-guy-so-save-your-fucking-emails/81422.md?page=1)