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Mike Orr [sluggoster at gmail.com]
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From: Alex White <alexwhiteax3@yahoo.co.nz> To: TAG <tag@lists.linuxgazette.net> Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:53 AM Subject: RESERVATION REQUESTTo:
Hello,
I am Mr Alex White from Shell Petroleum, UK. I want to book for Spa and massage therapy? for 15 guests from my Department . Our 15 guests will come to your place? for the therapy on February 21st-25th 2011(5 days) by 1pm to 4pm each day (3 guests per day, each for a 90mins session). Get back to me if there is availability.
I hope you do have a Credit Card machine for charges as regard payments. Thank you and looking forward to your urgent response.
Thanks, Alex White
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Whaddaybet the important phrase in this message is "credit card machine" and not "spa and massage therapy"?
-- Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com>
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 08:02:14AM -0800, Mike Orr wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alex White <alexwhiteax3 at yahoo.co.nz> > Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:53 AM > Subject: RESERVATION REQUEST > > > Hello, > > I am Mr Alex White from Shell Petroleum, UK.
I love it. Shell execs in the UK don't have email addresses with silly domains like, say, 'shell.com'; instead, they go for those premier luxury addresses in the cool places, like 'yahoo.co.nz'. It's the newest trend!
> I want to book for Spa > and massage therapy? for 15 guests from my Department .
Ah, those Brits. I've heard they've forgotten how to speak proper English, and here's the proof: Mr. Alex White's verb no object. Next thing you know, he'll be verbing nouns...
> Our 15 guests > will come to your place? for the therapy on February 21st-25th 2011(5 > days) by 1pm to 4pm each day (3 guests per day, each for a 90mins > session). Get back to me if there is availability.How romantic! Although, in the old days, there would have at least been flowers and maybe a dinner invitation... I guess no one has time for frilly stuff like that nowadays.
> I hope you do have a Credit Card machine for charges as regard > payments. Thank you and looking forward to your urgent response. > > Thanks, > Alex White > > ---- End forward > > Whaddaybet the important phrase in this message is "credit card > machine" and not "spa and massage therapy"?
I'm sure it is important! Even if you wear your fingers to the bone massaging all these people that are going to show up on February 21st, Mr. White is going to give you bad marks for not having a Credit Card machine. That'll teach you not to take serious business proposals, um, seriously.
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