Glee - best idea I’ve heard all day. If I had the money for postage stamps I’d do it, too. 
~Tasha
My goodness, you’re such a sweet, naive person.
Obviously you don’t put stamps on the envelopes. (Here in the UK, the person getting the letter has to pay double postage. :rolleyes: )
Don’t forget to mispell her name (after she criticised yours!). Spell it differently every time.
Years ago a friend and I pranked the Nevada Appeal by writing letters on god knows what topic (probably religion), taking the most extreme opposite sides of opinion. Our letters were sent about a week apart. My friend used the name Mary Kate Olson in his letter and I of course was Ashley Olsen. Those names may raise red flags now-a-days but around 97-98 they weren’t as obvious.
Anyways, they were both published and were both sent through e-mail. Nobody contacted us, nothing.
I remember the letters sounding like something only crazy people would write and you would’nt believe the glee we felt when we saw them in the paper but I have a feeling that nobody in town realized that they had been punk’d by the Olsen twins, it must’ve sounded like the everyday letters.
On a side note, I do like Carson and am thinking of moving back in the fall.
Yeah, the lady I replaced, who was here for 13 years (I started just over a year ago) was useless in that respect. She just approved everything and claimed she’d called and confirmed it. She also spent work time doing the crossword puzzle.
I’ve taken on twice as many duties as she had in my stay here, plus I actually call and confirm Letters, and I get it all done enough that I actually wind up surfing the Dope out of boredom. But yeah, she was useless. I had such a mess to clean up when I took over.
Aside, if you’re smart enough to come up with an awesome prank, you really do need to move back to Carson. The Sacramento gangbangers are overrunning us and we need more intelligent people. 
~Tasha
Tasha, sorry to hear you got a grouchy crank. I wrote one Op Ed piece for our local paper. My experience with the woman handling the letters page was excellent. I just don’t understand how alledgedly intelligent persons fail to realize that working with the minion that has to deal with the public in a polite manner is going have better results than ranting and raving - in a large part because of reaction against the jerks.
Tasha, I am so happy to hear that the other side of this state has nearly as many (not quite as many, mind you …) batshit crazy people as this side.
I do wish you’d move over here to help out the Elko Daily Free Press, though.
You see, I can’t seem to get any of my letters published.
Some kind of conspiracy, I suspect.
Must be a small town newspaper thingy.
But, hey, with a fellow Doper making the decisions? That’s someone I could really abuse …
:smack:
Uhhhh, I meant respect!
Lucy
Slight hijack here. Five years ago a friend of mine, a former editor for the New York Times, sent me an email which I hope to have made into a plaque some day. It follows.
Item from The New-London Gazette “Containing the freshest Advices, both Foreign and Domestick.” Friday, May 14, 1773, in which OBSERVER [the editor] invites readers to submit essays “which are worthy of public notice”:
“Any person fond of literature and desirous of seeing himself in print may now have an opportunity: if he cannot write with elegance and accuracy, the pieces will be revised by those who can.”
Have you thought about writing a letter to the editor about this?
Me too! What was her rant against you about exactly?
I thought this thread had gone the way of the Dodo.
I explained this earlier. She fervently believed that we were covering something up when in reality, people just didn’t give a shit.
stuyguy - Brilliance! I’m going to print that out and stick it on my monitor.
LucyInDisguise - There may very well be something going down with the Elko paper. We avoid contact with them, for a reason. And honestly, you couldn’t pay me to live in Elko. I was forced to live there with my uncle for a month during the summer and it blew. For someone who likes outdoorsy stuff, Elko is tops. For someone who prefers to stay inside and read, or to sit under a tree and write, not so much.
At least it’s not Wells, though…
~Tasha
Let us know if you get any letters from this woman.
But please make sure you don’t misspell the headline.
Oh…my…God.
Soooo glad I don’t live in Arkansas…soooo glad…
:smack:
~Tasha
Bwahahaha! I don’t know whether to laugh at the lady for being stupid about how DST works or be sad that she doesn’t understand time and science enough to comprehend that DST has nothing to do with what she’s thinking it does.
Sublight - I printed that out and passed it around the office. My boss really wishes the lady would write in to us.
~Tasha
You should start an “Ask the Letters to The Editor Guy” thread. I bet there are dozens of interesting questions that will come up.
I have thread-killer juju. I’m surprised this thread went on this long, haha.
The only thread I ever started that went for more than a few conversations was, well, this one, and the “Things that just sound perverted” thread. I am just that uninteresting.
I do think that some interesting stuff would come up, though.
~Tasha
I just have to say that Herald of All Sin would be an excellent name for a Las Vegas alternative weekly paper. It would also be a decent Dopername.
I wrote a letter to a magazine one time and they published it even though I used a fake name.
Ha ha!
So, are you Jack Hoff, Dick Hurtz, or Mike Hunt?
If I lived in Vegas I’d totally start that paper. However, I live about 8 hours away, soooo. 
~Tasha