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[mrissa]

I posted this as a comment in someone's friendslocked entry complaining about her job, but hey, everyone likes to make fun of other people's cow-orkers and WCW at the same time, right?

This Is Just To Say
I have misunderstood
the e-mail
you sent to
my inbox

and which
you were probably
hoping
would make sense.

Forgive me.
It was so random
so incoherent
and so badly punctuated.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me of:

Because reading English does not work that way.
>Why ?
>>Do not answer emails from the top.

which I am thinking I may have to include in my next seminar about what my team does here.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There are sometimes things painted on the street that upset me in that way. I have theorized that Xing Ped is a tasty dish from East or Southeast Asia.

[brooksmoses]

Alternately, it just fits into the usual pattern of Westerners getting Eastern names backwards a lot; see Ozy and Millie's take on where the name comes from, here and here.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I identify with Millie all too often, I'm afraid.

Xing Ped

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= I've had similar thoughts about Xing Ped. I'm concerned that Ped To Yield gives exactly the wrong message, and I don't quite know what to make of Hump Speed.

That said, the WCW parody was great.

Re: Xing Ped

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hump Speed is new to me. I would imagine it varies according to...let's just stop now, actually.