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The original post, written by David Thorne, with more background information is here.

From: Simon Edhouse
Date: Monday 16 November 2009 2.19pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Logo Design

Hello David,

I would like to catch up as I am working on a really exciting project at the moment and need a logo designed. Basically something representing peer to peer networking. I have to have something to show prospective clients this week so would you be able to pull something together in the next few days? I will also need a couple of pie charts done for a 1 page website. If deal goes ahead there will be some good money in it for you.

Simon

From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 16 November 2009 3.52pm
To: Simon Edhouse
Subject: Re: Logo Design

Dear Simon,

Disregarding the fact that you have still not paid me for work I completed earlier this year despite several assertions that you would do so, I would be delighted to spend my free time creating logos and pie charts for you based on further vague promises of future possible payment. Please find attached pie chart as requested and let me know of any changes required.

Regards, David.

Fwd Pie Charts %E2%80%94 Inbox 20091204 101416 This must be the funniest email conversation ever

From: Simon Edhouse
Date: Monday 16 November 2009 4.11pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Logo Design

Is that supposed to be a fucking joke? I told you the previous projects did not go ahead. I invested a lot more time and energy in those projects than you did. If you put as much energy into the projects as you do being a dickhead you would be a lot more successful.

From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 16 November 2009 5.27pm
To: Simon Edhouse
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

Dear Simon,

You are correct and I apologise. Your last project was actually both commercially viable and original. Unfortunately the part that was commercially viable was not original, and the part that was original was not commercially viable.

I would no doubt find your ideas more ‘cutting edge’ and original if I had traveled forward in time from the 1950’s but as it stands, your ideas for technology based projects, that have already been put into application by other people several years before you thought of them, fail to generate the enthusiasm they possibly deserve. Having said that though, if I had traveled forward in time, my time machine would probably put your peer to peer networking technology to shame as not only would it have commercial viability, but also an awesome logo and accompanying pie charts.

Regardless, I have, as requested, attached a logo that represents not only the peer to peer networking project you are currently working on, but working with you in general.

Regards, David.

Fwd Pie Charts %E2%80%94 Inbox 20091204 101805 This must be the funniest email conversation ever

From: Simon Edhouse
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 11.07am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

You just crossed the line. You have no idea about the potential this project has. The technology allows users to network peer to peer, add contacts, share information and is potentially worth many millions of dollars and your short sightedness just cost you any chance of being involved.

From: David Thorne
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 1.36pm
To: Simon Edhouse
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

Dear Simon,

So you have invented Twitter. Congratulations. This is where that time machine would definitely have come in quite handy.

When I was about twelve, I read that time slows down when approaching the speed of light so I constructed a time machine by securing my father’s portable generator to the back of my mini-bike with rope and attaching the drive belt to the back wheel. Unfortunately, instead of traveling through time and finding myself in the future, I traveled about fifty metres along the footpath at 200mph before finding myself in a bush. When asked by the nurse filling out the hospital accident report “Cause of accident?” I stated ‘time travel attempt’ but she wrote down ’stupidity’.

If I did have a working time machine, the first thing I would do is go back four days and tell myself to read the warning on the hair removal cream packaging where it recommends not using on sensitive areas. I would then travel several months back to warn myself against agreeing to do copious amounts of design work for an old man wielding the business plan equivalent of a retarded child poking itself in the eye with a spoon, before finally traveling back to 1982 and explaining to myself the long term photographic repercussions of going to the hairdresser and asking for a haircut exactly like Simon LeBon’s the day before a large family gathering.

Regards, David.

From: Simon Edhouse
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 3.29pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

You really are a fucking idiot and have no idea what you are talking about. The project I am working on will be more successful than twitter within a year. When I sell the project for 40 million dollars I will ignore any emails from you begging to be a part of it and will send you a postcard from my yaght. Ciao.

From: David Thorne
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 3.58pm
To: Simon Edhouse
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

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From: Simon Edhouse
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 4.10pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

Anyone else would be able to see the opportunity I am presenting but not you. You have to be a fucking smart arse about it. All I was asking for was a logo and a few pie charts which would have taken you a few fucking hours.

From: David Thorne
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 4.25pm
To: Simon Edhouse
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

Dear Simon

Actually, you were asking me to design a logotype which would have taken me a few hours and fifteen years experience. For free. With pie charts. Usually when people don’t ask me to design them a logo, pie charts or website, I, in return, do not ask them to paint my apartment, drive me to the airport, represent me in court or whatever it is they do for a living. Unfortunately though, as your business model consists entirely of “Facebook is cool, I am going to make a website just like that”, this non exchange of free services has no foundation as you offer nothing of which I wont ask for.

Regards, David.

From: Simon Edhouse
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 4.43pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

What the fuck is your point? Are you going to do the logo and charts for me or not?

From: David Thorne
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 5.02pm
To: Simon Edhouse
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

Fwd Pie Charts %E2%80%94 Inbox 20091204 101936 This must be the funniest email conversation ever

From: Simon Edhouse
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 5.13pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

Do not ever email me again.

From: David Thorne
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 5.19pm
To: Simon Edhouse
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

Ok. Good luck with your project. If you need anything let me know.

Regards, David.

From: Simon Edhouse
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009 5.27pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

Get fucked.

The original post, written by David Thorne, with more background information is here.

Boris Serial Internet Entrepreneur
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  • Julie
    Wow, I have worked for this guy!
  • hoodis0602
    this is hilarious. Absolutely awesome.
  • Michael
    OMG, I’ll betcha the agency guy's brother is an entrepreneur in Scottsdale.
  • Sarah
    This is pure gold.
  • teacherpreacherscreecher
    yup...having worked in IT for about 20 years, I can safely say this goes on constantly. And when the IT person tries to ask for reasonable compensation, the other person usually reacts like Simon.

    And so it goes...you gotta love technology.

    But you also gotta love the fools who think it has changed all the rules about how to treat others.
  • liSA
    Life is simple, and good, this email is a good example of how important it is to have a funny bone. ay.
  • Michael
    I was in the advertising and marketing business for way too long...and this smacks of conversations my creative directors, art directors and others had with outside sources, and sometimes with each other...all flaming aliens. Nothing new here, just names and dates...
    nice work, folks! I'm 60, and still LOL'd until my Depens failed.
  • Property Management Fees
    What a smart Alec
  • ijm_scot
    Florence Nightingale must be so proud she invented the pie chart for this :-)
  • Very funny as this is very close to my world as an on-line graphic designer!
  • CallyWog
    Simply hilarious! Love the logo in #2.
  • JW
    *dies laughing*

    That's brilliant.
  • How does someone make a pie chart without a topic or numbers.

    Makes me wonder about all pie charts.
  • Tom
    This is hilarious.. Most deffinately one of the funniest things i've seen in a long long time! Brilliant. Thanks for sharing!
  • Tmoney2012
    Btw…. These dudes are real – David Thorne graphic designer and Simon Edhouse –business development for a software company. LOL. Linked in profiles…





    http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&am...





    http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&am...
  • Brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
  • that was amazing! i love that he made a chart that said only no he wont design the logo.
  • larry fink
    so much for technical pie and its flexible approach to massive hostility

    all americans need apple pie.. no profit no gain


    but yummm..
  • God this is awesome The guy kept on asking for the charts even after all that.
  • DVB
    top of! A litle inspiration on Paul Rand's argument, but super anyway!
  • petie
    That's some funny shit...

  • I’d like the last hour of my life back.


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  • Helen Gynell
    to CherryTop--really! wow, do you read that slowly? i loved it!
  • snowboarderjohn
    I love this guys comment :: from Psychology101

    This dude is an attention whore and played all of you getting this unfunny POS dugg to the top of the page.

    Fact is he's not a designer, otherwise would in fact find the AWESOME humor (& truth) in that post.
    I'm still laughing!

  • I don’t think it was the funniest one either.


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  • blocked and reported for spam :)


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  • PhatRick
    "postcard from my yaght"

    ...

    what's a 'yaght' and why would Simon send a postcard from it?

  • The pie charts are funnyhttp://anastasiarussianbrides.tk


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  • You win!


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  • I don’t think there is a reply button for the title.


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  • jbcr8tv
    Classic!!!! I love this... I constantly complain about this type of Client-Tom-foolery all the time. Good for David!

    Fight the good fight!

    Peace.
    jbcr8tv

  • Well, it was on Reddit a couple weeks ago…http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/a82la/pleas …


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  • Anonymous
    dat wuz funni tho so shat ap gaiz

  • ken to ken to ken to ken to sivmen?


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  • manal
    this is the funny

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  • I see you once again managed to resist the temptation of using the "Reply" button. Buried for lack of context.


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  • Did you just use Tinypic?


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  • This was actually the clue that gave it away for me that MAYBE this david guy was lying about the whole thing. Then someone in another post here showed me a link to Simon’s blog and it was all clear. We have all been trolled


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  • Thanks for giving the link to his blog. I can’t say who’s lying, but it certainly seems like Simon’s side of the story is more plausible.


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  • bob o
    classic: "What the fuck is your point? Are you going to do the logo and charts for me or not?"

  • What do you feed it to give it such a fine fur?


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  • great post!! =)

  • i think more designers need to just tell it like it is … there is a LOT of insanity like this going on in the profession, and unless we start to be more blunt, honest and real about how we get treated and about the crazy-ass ideas that get thrown at us on a daily basis for the ‘make pretty’ industry, well … its not gonna change without this reality to refer to … i highly commend the David Thorne for just tellin’ it like it is … in fact, i think we all need to celebrate this sort of fight for quality in life … as much as DT comes off a some sort of punk, let’s face it … Simon-dude done the guy wrong over and over and over again in the past … AND … AND … his idea is probably as uninnovative as it gets … this is the daily tragedy of business in today’s world … this sort of ridiculous echo of the manufacturing mindset in our age of information and innovation … you can’t JUST look to the left and do what they’re doin’ and expect to make a difference or even a dollar anymore … you gotta be fncking brilliant … be brilliant of just step off please, thank you


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  • liSA
    Great post loususi! You are a DAVID!
  • hilarious perfection

    this is what its all about

  • Are you simon?


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  • Hmm maybe if that so called "original link" worked… someone would digg it :P


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  • corpower

    A$$hole vs Smart A$$


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  • what fuck is with those tags?


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  • example of Client From HELL


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  • The statement was not correctly answerable with his answers."Probability of me digging this story"The answers should be "Will" or "Will Not" as they make sense to answering the question.


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  • casey rose

    Precisely, Didja ever get the feeling they just don’t understand what it takes in graphic artist years to reach the point where these fine ideas gel into the wonderful logos/illustrations? Or that they don’t care? This exchange should be posted where every marketing person gets their checks, and then they’re only released when an independent party gets the correct response from them.


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  • JaKXz
    I read that a couple times over. laughed every time =P
  • Freddo

    I wish I had ten friends like Simon……. because I have twenty.


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  • He did a copy and paste just like Simon wanting to make Twitter again…Where’s that time machine?!?


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  • when i was about twelve.. haha he goes on schooling him


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  • PG-13 movies can have a ton of fucks, it just depends on context;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424129/trivia


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  • Reminds me of a modern Groucho Marx scene; Simon had no idea what had just happened.


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  • sassygalpal
    I AM AN OUSIDER BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNNNEEEEE
  • I've seen this somewhere before...

  • @muffinmonkyou said "Pg-13 never allows fucks." That’s why you got dugg down. Don’t take it personally.


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  • Anonymous
    PG 13 is allowed 1 "fuck."

  • Wow, seriously? So many buries for a word most pg-13 movies don’t even use? Hal0 was right, but face it, not that many movie use fuck in a pg-13 movie.


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  • How about a pie chart showing: 1) Number of people who liked this joke? 2) Number of people who liked this joke but secretly wish they had the guts to stand up to their bosses but instead find passive-aggressive ways of resisting?


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  • Agreed. Simon’s got the biggest balls, but they use up so much blood that his brain’s not working. He ripped off David, and now he has the nerve to ask for work that David can only assume will end up being pro bono again.


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  • liSA
    i agree totaly with you TVarmy, the thing is there are so many Simons how there. and finaly David's who won't take the shit anymore.

  • this isnt that funny. it reminds me of a facebook conversation id have myself. and im not really that funny.


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  • Anonymous
    Dude, you're an idiot. I'm literally laoughing out loud and I'm BY MYSELF. THIS IS AWESOME!!!

  • The same sort that designed the first generation of social networking utilities?


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  • It appears you didn’t read the website’s disclaimer.


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  • http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=16&cpage=1#comm …On Simon’s blog explaining what happened.


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  • This dude is an attention whore and played all of you getting this unfunny POS dugg to the top of the page.


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  • Anonymous
    Unfunny? What the hell is your idea of funny? I'm guessing from your name you prefer Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw. This is INSANELY funny!!!! I'm tearing up from lauging so hard!
  • zelda
    I think Psychology101 might just be Simon :)

    This was frickin hilarious!

  • Hmmmm….So many colorful pie charts….


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  • nothing more entertaining than programming my friend =)


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  • uh, this wasn’t written by a right winger. the messianic stuff is tongue-in-cheek, i’m quite sure. but maybe it hit a little nerve? i remember after the election, college students were running around screaming with unbridled glee, as if they’d just won the lottery. i remember during the election, many many people screaming at the sight of obama, reminiscent of the beetle’s coming off the airplane. i’m not going to say it was a cult of personality, let alone a messianic one, but i think some of these people are a little embarrassed, now. they overreact whenever somebody makes a joke about the cult of obama.


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  • Dugg for time machine


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  • Second funniest. At most.


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  • if you noticed in this string of emails there was about a hundred re’s by the end of it.


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  • Buried for using phrase ______ "ever" in a title. Leave that judgement to me.


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  • Yo
    Want to do us a favor and not steal content from other websites? Thanks.

  • What sort of 14 year olds are sitting in their parents’ houses designing the next generation of social networking utilities?


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  • A few hours and 15 years experience.


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  • It sounds more like the wet dream of a designer pwning a dumb client. Do people really believe this is real?


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  • Frazmodo
    What the heck is wrong with you? You've just stolen someone's work. You haven't given a short description and taken a excerpt, you've just stolen this guys work, all of it.

    You are an arse.
  • Jdog57
    Lol. This is has got to be the funniest E-mail forward I get at school. This rocks.

  • dugg for logo design


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  • niiiice


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  • Yeah, he created a fake Twitter account with 400 followers and linked it to a fake blog with years worth of content.I don’t think so.


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  • Oh shit, I DID say it out loud!


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  • It’s just the one pagew too from what i can tell….


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  • This happens all the time with photography. Things like "spend thousands of dollars in equipment and spend 8+ hours of your day shooting my wedding. In exchange we give you no money but if we need a photographer later for something, we can pay you for that maybe."


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  • http://twitter.com/simonedhouseHe claims the e-mails are fake.


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  • I do


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  • Awesome :) XD but nothing beats the classic spider e-mailhttp://emailsfromcrazypeople.com/wp-content/upload …


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  • Very funny!

  • Not true. I don’t know what cecilpl is talking about with "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" but in that documentary they said that you in theory can say fuck more than once in a PG13 movie, but most movies where they would say fuck more than once are movies that are rated R for other reasons anyway.


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  • Well then I should really stop talking about her tits. Don’t want her to get the wrong idea if she happens to come across this.


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  • Anonymous
    "Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."
    Samuel Johnson

  • Sounds more like Simon was trying to walk across the smoldering ashes of what used to be a bridge. That rarely works out well…


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  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDqxuGlxbWc&fea …the best I could find on short notice


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  • hahahah... this is the funniest email conversation i have ever read :)

  • Funny how you’re still commenting obsessively on this story despite the fact that no one cares what you have to say and that every comment you have made is being buried into oblivion.


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  • Pick your moments better for dropping the TWSS line…*sigh* Amateurs!and @aplarson: if it’s too long go back to reading Dr Seuss.


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  • I’m more concerned about the age of the poster than whether it’s real or fake. Where are the 14 year olds with such intimate knowledge of business design and how can I con them into working on my "OMG better than Twitter" P2P website for free??/s


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  • But warn yourself first, 4 days before, not to use the hair removal product on your sensitive areas. The man has priorities, I’ll give him that!


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  • Exactly, in a PG13 movie, you can say it once. You know what I say? Fuck that.


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  • haha this is awesome. the last pie chart is the best


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  • Funny, I’m sure I reddit somewhere as well.


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  • That’s what she said.


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  • Buried for "ever"


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  • yes / NO


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  • good to know we now write without editing sentences now


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  • http://twitter.com/27bslash6 The other dude


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  • According to "This Movie Is Not Yet Rated" (expose on MPAA ratings), PG-13s are allowed one fuck. They must be very judicious about where to use it.


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  • i want the last 10 minutes back, wish i had a time machine right now


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  • Anonymous
    It took you 10 minutes to read that?

  • I have a feeling this may be staged. He mentions the yacht in the website intro.


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  • Doktorfuture
    Where do I invest?

  • Simon?!


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  • what was the last .net site to really take off?


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  • Spherical
  • Adam
    Oh man...I know a dude just like that, always behind by a couple of years, then doesn't understand when people aren't excited by his "new" ideas. Totally hilarious.

    http://www.livingwithanerd.com

  • "Ok. Good luck with your project. If you need anything let me know.Regards, David."


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  • hoikarnage
    Yeah thanks for quoting that, because we all totally did not just read it ourselves.
  • Get fucked.

  • *you’re an ass


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  • Simon, is that you?


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  • Funniest ever? I certainly thought so the last time it hit front page:http://digg.com/design/It_s_like_twitter_Except_we …Buried not for dupe, but for shameless ripoff.


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  • Dickhead
    Hei dickhead, stop copying other peoples work.. asshole
  • my-ka
    It's really funny! I liked it!
  • Marlies from Holland
    Double digg...Hilarious! This guy is real funny :D
  • kaimike
    priceless
  • Hehe, true about our industry
  • You just copypasted it from another site, that sucks. Still a quite funny story :)
  • Anonymous
    YOU LEGEND LMFAOOOOOOO
  • So nonsensical, so hilarious!!! =) On second thoughts, Edhouse's mails do bear an uncanny resemblance to one of clients' :-0)
  • Insanely Hilarious...
    Though it seems fake,but Enjoyed it much...
  • Maria
    I had that feeling too... is it fake??
  • gr8... loved every part ...
    wat an imagination
  • bob
    Fake of course.
  • It's hilarious. I like those piecharts.
  • umair
    buhahahaha.....hillarious :D
  • anon
    hahaha bslash... b/ on 4chan.org. fail.
  • Perhaps one more Pineapple Chart and mebbe a Lego, then you gonna get paid fer sure, fer sure...
  • LAkawak
    Yes..plagiarism of fake e-mail exchanges are LEGAL on the internet! So don't worry that you are profiting off other peple's (unfaunny) work without giving them credit!
  • LMAO wow! Hilarious!
  • Brock
    Ahahaha. Brilliant!
  • greg
    Possibility Simon is a fucking dick.

    100%
  • wendy_fred6
    I turned 37 just 60 minutes ago and you got me peeing in my bed reading this. Thanks. <3
  • sweetlove2
    can i get some email address on this please
  • HolidayFriday
    That was SO funny.
  • sweetlove2
    stupse
  • what happened to my previous comment?
  • Aah, I see (at the top of the post) you already knew were the story came from :-)
  • Gabi
    Hahahaha, this just made my whole day! Too funny
  • This hilarious email conversation actually originates from http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html, were you will find a bunch more even more hilarious conversations like for instance this one: http://www.27bslash6.com/matthewsparty.html

    They're written by satirist author David Thorne; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thorne_(writer)
  • I literally have never laughed as much as this for a long, long time...

    Its like every reply I have always wanted to write but haven't had the guts...

    Fantastic.
  • Steven Maimes
    Great. I needed a good laugh.
  • event if fake : great - and contains a lot of reality...
    I especially like the small black pic in it - it sure is a VERY useful symbol for making one's point clear :)
    Q to the author: Is the pic free of licence ?
  • Meridian_said_it_right
    It may be fake but I too have had similar converstations with carrot and stick clients.
  • techcommdood
    I can't tell you how many times I've heard the Wimpy Line ("I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"). Whether real or fake: Bravo!!!
  • baconordeath
    If you haven't already read it, "E" by Matt Beaumont is a perfect summation of email relationships in creative agency culture. It may be ten years old, but nothing has changed.
  • Who cares if it's fake or not? Doesn't make it any less funny! You just completely made my Friday, thank you sir!
  • intellectual props
    Been there, done that. I wallpapered my bathroom with my old dotcom stock certificates!
  • Too funny! Yeah, I don't care if it's faked or not...the humor stays the same!
    Loved the "if using a time machine" pie chart. lol
    morondailynews.com
  • Meridian Id
    This is exactly what clients do! LOL... Loved it!
  • This email exchange is covered in awesome sauce.
  • It may be a fake, but it's still hilarious. :)
  • Guy AKA Modus Man
    This is almost real life. We are a design agency and boy, does this ring true. !!! Made up or not - it's excellent.
  • Poster
    Welcome to last week, and YES it's a fake .. and made up .. never happened..
  • Boris the Plagiarizer
    Why do this?
  • Thanks a bunch for letting me start off my day with this exchange of incredible competent and incredible incompetent e-mailing. Love it!
  • Genius. Check his website for more of this: http://www.27bslash6.com/matthewsparty.html
  • Mark
    Give credit where credit is due: http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html
  • came to me as a chain letter originally and without credit. I copy pasted it from there but included links back to the original as soon as I found out about David Thorne. His other stuff is hilarious too so I would certainly check that out. You can also follow the author on Twitter: @27bslash6
  • Hahaha loved it
  • This seems pretty standard?
  • r
    so true:)
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