emuse amusements from email

Various people have at times sent me humourous email messages. Over the years I have received piles of satirical writing, funny stories, urban legends, jokes and wacky stuff. Collected here are the best and silliest of these.

  • Monk gloats over yoga championship
  • The Average Juggler
  • Boastful college applicant
  • Hotel soap proliferation
  • Advice to the young by Schmich, not Vonnegut
  • How to write
  • Top 10 search engine songs
  • Hong Kong film subtitles
  • Are you a Republican?
  • The pathologist proclaims death
  • Silicon Valley lingo
  • Make tenure fast
  • General failure
  • Non Meat Aliens
  • Office Inspirational Posters
  • quotations

  • Amazing true quotations
  • Unremarkable newspaper headlines
  • Real resume entries
  • Worst analogies contest
  • Quotes from the witness stand
  • forms to fill-out

  • Military aircraft warranty card
  • Purchased official warranty card
  • L.A. driver's license application
  • l33t Lord's prayer
  • Astronaut, Fireman or Sysadmin
  • Microsoft buys US federal government
  • Children's proverbs
  • Married to a consultant
  • What I have learned
  • A blitzkrieg of bad pun jokes
  • Reasons for becoming a scientist
  • Teching Math -- Logging
  • Having a Real Bad Day
  • Technical Museum Simulations
  • Explosive Trombone Playing
  • Gay Lifestyle Damned
  • darwin awards

  • Darwin Awards
  • More Darwin Awards
  • Darwin Awards 1997
  • Darwin Awards -- the JATO car
  • computer silliness

  • Error message haiku
  • Adventures in tech support -- the cupholder
  • Sun microsystems sues Java
  • Hello World -- the evolution of a computer programmer
  • The other goodtimes virus
  • The Beatles computer song compilation
  • Dr. Seuss, technical writer
  • The free money virus
  • Microsoft Bomb
  • Microsoft Commandments

  • I would imagine that most of these articles have enjoyed wide email distribution. Unfortunately the identities of many of the authors of these works have been lost in the ether, and so cannot be here attributed. I have provided attributions and citations to the best of my knowledge.


    Last revised: 05 February 04
    page by Oliver Crow