Re: For the record

From: mayhem <meurtre_at_earthlink.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:52:36 -0700

John:

This belief (that the passport story is a practical joke) has bothered
me since I first heard that a handful of people held it. Let us be
charitable and say that--rather than having no pattern-recognition
ability--the people who hold this belief simply haven't paid enough
attention to your jokes to understand what your patterns are. Okay.

It is still monumentally insulting to you to suggest that you would be
so elaborately flip and cavalier about an event of this magnitude, with
3,000 dead--particularly given that you have family and close friends
living and working nearby. It's outrageous.

There's also the fact that the initial e-mail about this odd occurrence
went out to people whom you would never have cc'd on any kind of practical
joke. There was just no way.

--Joy


> It appears that some folks out there still do not believe my passport
> story, instead holding on to the notion that it is 'just another
> prank'. I fully admit to being a prankster. I have pulled off (or
> rather, tried to pull off) pranks in the past, and will probably
> continue doing so in the future.
>
> This is NOT one of those times.
>
> You know, my brother-in-law Yoni nearly died in that terrible event,
> since he was in the street directly below the WTC at the time the
> plane went in the building. As the story was told to me, Yoni heard a
> terrible noise and looked up. As flames came out of the building,
> debris started to come down, and he had to make a run for it. He got
> away, but many other innocent people were not so lucky. What a
> horrible thing!
>
> So, I am sure you all agree that to make a prank out of this would be
> in EXTREMELY poor taste.
>
>
> John
>
>
>



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