Another comment from the ‘Squad mailbag:

Name: mighty
URL:
Subject: partnership

hi, i am a Nigerian and want to be your correspondent, even as i want to bring out a show on environmental issues in the country. i am an environmental technologist and feel ignorance and lack of information, coped with non-enforcement is a deter to my country.
i know your office can help me fulfil this dream.

Sure thing, mighty! Should we also wire $10,000 to your bank account too?

From this morning’s mail comes this gem. Note that I do not correct or edit these in any way other than changing names, occasionally, to protect the guilty:

Name: patsy
URL:
Subject: 1974 camaro

WELL IM KINDA NEW AT ALL OF THIS TO START OFF …

MY NAME IS PATSY AND I HAVE A HUSBAND THAT HAS BEEN WORKIN ON HIS CAR SENCE HE WAS 15. IT IS A 1974 CAMARO AND ITS OUR DREAM CAR! WE HAVE GOT SOME THINGS FOR  BETSY (MOTER/ PARTS AND LITTLE NICK NACKS) BUT WE WERE UNABLE TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY FOR THE REST SO FAR. IM NOT SURE HOW YALL WORK  OR DO THINGS BUT I WAS VERY INTRUSTIED IN FINDING OUT!! I WANT THIS TO BE A SUPRISE FOR MY HUSBAND, I WOULD LIKE IT IF YOU COULD CONTACT ME AND LET ME KNOW WHAT IT IS YALL DO AND HOW YALL DO IT. IVE ALSO GOT SOME PICTURES THAT I COULD SEND YOU IF YOU WOULD LIKE, THANK YOU FOR YOU TIME! HOPE TO SEE OR TALK TO YALL SOON.

I remember when a Camaro was my dream car. It was when I was carless, penniless and in high school.

One from this past week:

am a a62 year old woman with thuder thighs. i feel ugly. i felel that woman my age age are more beutisul than me, i have a pear shaped looked and wear baggy clothes to cover up my wide hip and big soopy bossom. i am ashambed of my body.

I dunno what it is, but I sure hope I never get a soopy bossom.

Another I got over the weekend:

Name: Not a fan
URL:
Subject: Old Chicks

please get the old women off of prime time - please!

Simply put, ‘fan. If you wait long enough, they’ll be gone from natural causes. We’ll see what we can do in the meantime to ease your suffering.