HUMOR Digest - 25 Oct 1997 to 26 Oct 1997

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 03:51:51 -0400
From: Jim Moore Jr
Subject: Take a Letter

Back in the 50's-60's, "dictation" was a real art form among the secretarial set. In fact, a lot of them even began speaking that way themselves unintentionally.

One nite a woman was berating her husband for coming home late: "And furthermore, comma..."

A businessman asked his secretary to send an e-mail message to his wife, who was staying in Brasila, trying to drum up business for their computerized language translators. She had placed a print-out of the message he'd dictated on his desk.

Later that afternoon, he said to her, "You did just fine with the e-mail, but you forgot the last line -- 'I love you'."

"Oh !" she replied. "I hadn't realized you were still dictating."

Called out of town, an executive for a parts company dictated an e-mail to Allis-Chalmers (an equipment company) in Milwaukee saying that he'd be unable to keep their appointment on Friday.

Upon his return, he found a print-out of the message on his desk:
          "Dear Alice,
            I'm off to Texas and afraid I can't keep our date..."

He immediately telephoned the purchasing agent and said, "I should like to explain my e-mail."

The agent said, "Explain it ??? It's been on the bulletin board for a week."

The new secretary was a truly stunning blonde, and her boss was the envy of all the Senior Managers. He was disillusioned with her though when she said his e-mail to a publisher was returned. He had dictated an e-mail to them and told her to use their letterhead for the address.

The messages returned were to:
     Macmilan@NewYork,
     Macmilan@London and
     Macmilan@Toyko.

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