(Headnote : NP=North Pole, SP=South Pole)
NP : SP, can you check my mail today please?
SP : Will do, I'll check when I go down to play jigsaw puzzles on the comp. Btw, Alt- can you help me link the puzzle to my blog?
Me : Sure, next time I go down to pay bills!
NP : X, Y or Z should've emailed me by now. Its been 10 days since I've been away, the association must have some work lined up for me.
SP : Hrmph, you need a break. They will survive.
Some hours later...overheard...
SP : So there is an email from Y asking you to fwd an email to Mr. A. What is A's id?
NP : blah blah blah (dot) blah blah @ yahoo.com. But hang on, let me check my diary(black?).
SP (tapping her fingers and waiting impatiently while she attempts another jigsaw puzzle) : Alt- How do I turn these pieces?
Alt (with more impatience, she is her mother's daughter after all) : You can't. These pieces will fit as is. (and walks away)
NP : Here, this is the email address.
SP types it in and hits send and goes back to the puzzle.
A few seconds later...
SP : That has bounced!
NP : Bounced? What does that mean?
SP (Exasperated) : It means the email id is wrong. Are you sure this is right?
NP (scratching bald head) : Yes, this is what I have. See, maybe its gmail, not yahoo.
SP (After trying multiple combos of email ids and web-mail providers, gives up) : Nah, none of them work. So what to do now?
NP (looking quite lost) : Sigh. There is one way.
Both look at each other and in chorus- "Lets take a printout of this email and post it to A. What say?"
Sigh.
Collaboration through technology
Monday, June 29, 2009Posted by Altoid at 9:10 AM
Labels: The pole tales
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7 mint(s) of wisdom:
LOLLLLL!! :))
It will probably reach after he does :))
rofl!
the poles do meet after all :D
ps: south pole has a blog?? you shud promote it!
Seren : What IS this fascination with printing emails? :D
K's mom :P, she does- she barely writes and its mostly managed by us. G insists she should write more often, but we've come to realise she is keyboard-phobic. Here's her blog, yenjoy! http://pillar-to-post.blogspot.com
Disclaimer:
This blog is at best a collection of twisted facts.I am truly not 'like this only'.I can manage my blogspot without your technical support ,lady.or do you want me to write a credit line thanking you in every blog.And to think it was I who taught you to write!
Hi Pillypoppery,
Even after so many years , you still do think your threats will work on us.You don't give up , do u?
:P
LOL :D Snail Mail indeed !!
And see Alto - quite apparently I'm not the only one insisting that South Pole should write more often.
@ Pillpopper : In response to your Disclaimer I have just one thing to say "my sentiments exactly" ! :D
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