Public Radio Slave

Word Minutia

Files this under "People With Too Many Minutes In Their Day". As in someone who knows that they have exactly 610 minutes left in their day to annoy others. A caller:

"I was just listening to an interview on NPR and when they were done the interviewer thanked the guest for being there and the guest said "I'm happy to have been here." Now since they were still there shouldn't they have said "I am happy to be here" and why would you air something that wasn't exactly correct?"

Me: (Silence while I try to wrap my dum dum brain around this question)....(more silence while I think about telling the caller that my breakfast eggs just told my stomach "I'm happy to have been here")....I don't know, I think you could probably say both. 

Caller: Well aren't you the college people over there? Shouldn't you know?

Me: The college people are actually all over here right now, we are having a keg party in one of the production rooms. None of us know how to spell though, or construct sentences. Thanks for calling, you've still got 608 minutes left today.   

Have You Did What I Told YOU Mr. MATT?

Everyone is used to the Nigerian money transfer email scams, but this latest one gave me a good chuckle ha ha.

Hello,

Have you did what i told you to do ?.
You should stop wasting time, just do it right away.
Ask him to send you the total sum of $1.6 million u s dollars in a bank draft, which I kept for your compensation.  reach him with this email ...(enininnam2@yahoo.fr) his name is  mr  ENINI. like i said before God has done it, i have finnal got that fund. Give him all the informations he may need, like your full names, country were you want him to send the money to,your direct phone numbers and any other informations he might need o.k

Yours Faithfully
Mr MATT.