this post by tallskinnykiwi is not only one of the best posts i have read in a long time, it is also a fantastic response to a growing problem. i don’t know how many e-mails i have had asking for money for africa – i always delete them…. anyway go and read it for yourself and here’s a choice quote or two…
james, the new media world is different. You will find that the bloggers you will now be approaching with your requests are a different tribe than the church people you previously harrassed….
By continuing to violate our blogs and our email boxes, you make it difficult for those ministries in Africa that really do need help, but are not as savvy in the way of the internet as you…..
Lose the King James language. You sound like a right idiot. Honestly, do you really talk like that? Is that how you ask for vegetables at your local store…
About those church pipe-organs we sent you – oooooops . . . OUR BAD!. I don’t know why we sent them. Our ancestors, in their naive modern rationale, felt that their 1800’s Western music was God’s Top of the Pops and they wanted to thump you on the head with their aural metanarrative. Sorry about that! Send them back if you like – we could actually use them now. I am sure many Church DJ’s would love to mix in some pip’in hot chords with their electronic loops.
Damn, that was some funny stuff.
My favorites are the faxes from Nigeria. Ick.