Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Missing Cat Viral Email Exchange

Missing Missy email exchange

It's a supposedly hilarious exchange between Shannon Walkley and graphics designer David Thorne over Shannon's lost cat, Missy, and was started in June 2010. It is going around like wildfire now, and unbelievably, people are just peeing themselves laughing over it.
http://867-53oh9.blogspot.com/2010/07/you-have-to-read-this-chain-email.html

David Thorne created a viral about an argument over a lost cat, titled
Missing Missy
http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

The site title where you'll find this thing is "yeah thats not what I'm looking for at all." (should be "that's")

Before the letters actually begin, David Thorne says:

"I am extremely emotional over this and was up all night in tears.
I am not a big fan of cats. I do not hate them, I just have no interest in them whatsoever. If I visit your house, I do not want to pat your cat, sit on the couch where it has been or have you make me a sandwich after patting it. I didn't want that sandwich anyway. The Maxwell house coffee was bad enough and when you smelt the milk to see if it was still ok, despite being a week past its use by date, I saw your nose touch the carton.

I actually rescued a cat once. I was walking across a bridge, over a river that was in flood, when I heard mewing and saw a frantic cat being pulled along. I picked up a fairly hefty branch and threw it over the rail to where the cat was. I did not see it after that but I am pretty sure it would have climbed on and ridden the branch over the next set of rapids and waterfall to safety."

Then comes the email exchange back and forth, but some versions of the chain have left out part of the exchange that is on the site.

Chain:
From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 11.32am
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Awww
Dear Shannon,
I don't have a cat. I once agreed to look after a friend's cat for a week but after he dropped it off at my apartment and explained the concept of kitty litter. I have attached the amended version of your poster as per your detailed instructions.
Regards, David.

Me: The original reads like this:

"From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 11.32am
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Awww

Dear Shannon,

I don't have a cat. I once agreed to look after a friend's cat for a week but after he dropped it off at my apartment and explained the concept of kitty litter, I kept the cat in a closed cardboard box in the shed and forgot about it. If I wanted to feed something and clean faeces, I wouldn't have put my mother in that home after her stroke. A week later, when my friend came to collect his cat, I pretended that I was not home and mailed the box to him. Apparently I failed to put enough stamps on the package and he had to collect it from the post office and pay eighteen dollars. He still goes on about that sometimes, people need to learn to let go.

I have attached the amended version of your poster as per your detailed instructions.

Regards, David."

It gets no grin from me, and I hope no one sends it to me! Just putting that out there. If you think it's hilarious, whatever, kindly keep it to yourself, because you never know who else has already gotten it a zillion times, and I don't care to, thanks.

More about this chain originator:

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posted by Capri at Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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