Yet another post about work emails
My coworkers always ask me, "Where do you get those delightful subject lines for all of your emails?" And I explain that there are many roads that lead to this shining destination:
- Phrases shrieked during the middle of the night in my sleep, dutifully recorded by my shriek-activated tape recorder,
- excerpts from the novel that I'm allegedly writing -- in fact, if you stitch together the subject lines of every email I've ever sent, you'd have the whole thing plus an audio commentary,
- other people's subject lines that still seem to work out of context,
- parrot-squawked phrases,
- maxims from my Kitties Hanging From Things And Thinking Funny Things In Thought Balloons 2007 desk calendar,
- and ugly comments I'm afraid to make in the actual email itself.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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RIM JOB!
petey boy u silly bitch. hey man guess what im moving from one coast to another...to nyc. whenever u come back to ny u always got a couch to crash at...later
Please don't tell me you really have a kitties desk calendar. You're joking, right.
The subject lines of your emails provide the entertainment that is crucial for making it through the day. I am not sure what we did before you arrived!
Cole, that's cool. I'll have to take you up on that offer sometime.
Erik, nah, I was just joking, I don't really have a kitties desk calendar. Nor do I have a shriek-activated tape recorder. :)
You should write a follow-up post with examples of some of your creative subject lines.
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