Auld Lang Syne Blogging

From the archives: What Orpington High Street has to say to Berkeley. Perhaps the funniest message ever to arrive in my email inbox.

| hello
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| i would add exclamation marks but i cant find them
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| anyway....
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| i am drunk and in orpington high stteet.
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| theres a pubkic email booth thing herre and i thoigh id send u all a msg
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| ooooo touchscreentastic.
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| will write again when at
| a proper xompitor
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| eloo yis is pete a mate fpof chtis cant see f* THINK I BRKE THE
| KYBOARD TE E DONT WORK

This I think, te definitive answer to Thoreau's question:

It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?"

Comments

[Invigilator]

Please tell me where I can find a proper xompitor! I have so much xomping to do this year.

[wcw]

A college buddy of mine, then doing travel writing and blissfully drunk, once wrote me a postcard very much like this.

My parents, to whose house he addressed it, still laugh about his fake German.

Happy New Year's.

[Kate G.]

Brad, I want to take the opportunity to wish you a very, very, happy new year. thanks for all the bloggy goodness.

Kate G.

[andres]

Damn. Kate G. beat me to it, and by a full day too. Happy New Year, Brad. And while the blogging is nice, it's also good to get those glimpses into your teaching and research. Best,

andres

[Anderson]

Thoreau's quote, from "Walden," is this:

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.