Sometimes there are e-mails it's best you don't respond to.
Yesterday, I posted on a handbell mailing list that I was looking for music composition contests -- not just handbell, but for any instrument. Today, I received the following e-mail in response, which I am almost sure is not a joke:
"You may not be aware that Bells of the Sound has an annual composition contest. In the past they have set out themes, and is where Hascall's Andromeda came from. Just go to Bellsofthesound.com to find out information."
On a similar note, this was a nice blurb about me in the Ames Daily Tribune:
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
