Archive for April 18th, 2009

Insanity in my inbox

April 18th, 2009

I get quite a lot of private emails about me and my site.

I told you about Irena and her desperate attempts to get to know me better.

I get quite a few like that.  Some of them want to have my babies, which is fine too, except that they refuse to sign any waver for child support, and I also have to keep it quiet from Herself.

I have received quite a few looking for some kind of product endorsement.  These are weird ones, as they usually offer to send me something strange to endorse.  I have had offers of strange sunglasses and also of some kind of card collecting racket.  I bin them.  No one want me to endorse a new pipe tobacco or whiskey, I notice?

I also get a lot of requests for link exchanges. 

Some of the link exchange requests come from company sites or from on line gambling sites.  They usually get a response from me.  I send them a nice email with a virulent virus attached.

I also get requests from other bloggers, and this is where life gets tricky.

My problem is that if I linked to every blogger who wrote to me, I would end up with more links than blog, which would mean that my site would become a directory, and I wouldn’t be able to ramble on it.

Very rarely though, I get a mail about a blog that is different.  I got one of those this morning.

He did everything right.  He praised my writing to the point of embarrassment; he linked to his blog and most important – he deposited €100 in my PayPal account.

I had a look at Irish Begrudger, and I can confidently say that he is certifiable.  I would go so far as to say he is Grade A Insane.

I think I recognise the style.

Didn’t we share adjacent padded cells once?