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(with advance apologies to a certain forumite - trust me you are not the only one sending these to me)


how can I stop people sending them to me??


Not that I would buy anything in Threshers anyway (over sugared wines, contributions to Tory party yadda yadda - all the reasons you would expect from.. well, me)


But surely the whole thing stinks a bit? Didn't they claim in previous years that it was a mistake? It's all just poxyviral marketing, one step up from those apocyphal emails about findding a fleet of cars in a a warehouse if you ask me


Not to mention they might actually be malicious


http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/102970.html


I've had 8 of the fekkin things today - make it stop!!

Brendan Wrote:

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> Yes, I had forgotten about the, kill them with

> sticks, option.*

>

> *Warning: Killing people with sticks may be

> damaging to their health and/or your social life.



Quite right, I don't know what I was thinking. Don't kill Strawbs with sticks. I'm saying nothing on the subject of sticks and other people - that's entirely between you and your maker (or perhaps also the fuzz)


edited to apologise for the sugar rush to the brain provoking unwarranted blood lust - and errant punctuation - I've had a lot of Haribo

Brendan Wrote:

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> Ps. Don?t kill Strawbs with sticks. I like

> Strawbs.



aaaw thanks beautiful! I was hoping someone might save me from the crazy stick wavers! You always seem to jump in when I need ya. *blows a kiss*

Emails from Thresher and Gap? I don't understand really.

The invitation from Giggirl to clog up her in-box seems a trifle 'broad'. I think it might be a contribution to a new script for a filum entitled Carry On Fe-Mail


Sticks, though, them I understand. Swing and hit. Just swing and hit.

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