Real Heros

[Diomedes]

It's hard to throw that much junk mail away without it getting noticed.  Just imagine if your mailman kept everyone's junk mail every day...that's tons and tons of paper.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-junk-mail22-2008nov22,0,42692.story

best mailman ever

That guy used to deliver to my house.  Now that I think about it, my junk mail has increased a lot recently.

[Diomedes]

write a letter in support of him to someone then

first amendment shouldn't guarantee the right to pollute and waste and annoy with unsolicited mail

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Find me the best recipient and address (email or snail), and I will gladly write an eloquent letter in his defense.

[rjs246]

Find me the best recipient and address (email or snail), and I will gladly write an eloquent letter in his defense.

The internet is useful sometimes

[General_Failure]

Send them a large box full of a month's worth of junk mail.

[Diomedes]

ha, good idea

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I still occasionally send credit card companies torn up pieces of paper or little notes like "go farg yourselves" or "eat me, dickbags" in their postage-paid envelopes.  It feels like a little victory every time.

[Seabiscuit36]

I still occasionally send credit card companies torn up pieces of paper or little notes like "go farg yourselves" or "eat me, dickbags" in their postage-paid envelopes.  It feels like a little victory every time.

i just add those to my collection

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

You're the devil.

[Diomedes]

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Hunter+Thompson+brutally+honest+Canadian+request/3606508/story.html

link explains the context of the following letter, penned in 1958 by Hunter S. Thompson to Jack Scott, maverick editor of a paper and to Hunter's mind at the time, possible employer:

Vancouver Sun

TO JACK SCOTT, VANCOUVER SUN

October 1, 1958 57 Perry Street New York City

Sir,

I got a hell of a kick reading the piece Time magazine did this week on The Sun. In addition to wishing you the best of luck, I'd also like to offer my services.

Since I haven't seen a copy of the "new" Sun yet, I'll have to make this a tentative offer. I stepped into a dung-hole the last time I took a job with a paper I didn't know anything about (see enclosed clippings) and I'm not quite ready to go charging up another blind alley.

By the time you get this letter, I'll have gotten hold of some of the recent issues of The Sun. Unless it looks totally worthless, I'll let my offer stand. And don't think that my arrogance is unintentional: it's just that I'd rather offend you now than after I started working for you.

I didn't make myself clear to the last man I worked for until after I took the job. It was as if the Marquis de Sade had suddenly found himself working for Billy Graham. The man despised me, of course, and I had nothing but contempt for him and everything he stood for. If you asked him, he'd tell you that I'm "not very likable, (that I) hate people, (that I) just want to be left alone, and (that I) feel too superior to mingle with the average person." (That's a direct quote from a memo he sent to the publisher.)

Nothing beats having good references.

Of course if you asked some of the other people I've worked for, you'd get a different set of answers.

If you're interested enough to answer this letter, I'll be glad to furnish you with a list of references — including the lad I work for now.

The enclosed clippings should give you a rough idea of who I am. It's a year old, however, and I've changed a bit since it was written. I've taken some writing courses from Columbia in my spare time, learned a hell of a lot about the newspaper business, and developed a healthy contempt for journalism as a profession.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what you're trying to get The Sun away from, then I think I'd like to work for you.

Most of my experience has been in sports writing, but I can write everything from warmongering propaganda to learned book reviews.

I can work 25 hours a day if necessary, live on any reasonable salary, and don't give a black damn for job security, office politics, or adverse public relations.

I would rather be on the dole than work for a paper I was ashamed of.

It's a long way from here to British Columbia, but I think I'd enjoy the trip.

If you think you can use me, drop me a line.

If not, good luck anyway.

Sincerely, Hunter S. Thompson

[Rome]

If there is a God then hopefully Hunter is busy writing an expose' on His seeming absentee stewardship of the universe.

[MDS]

there isnt and hes not

hunter is dead and thats the end of it. go take your fairy tales somewhere else, old man.

[Rome]

^^^ proof that hitler wasn't all bad. ^^^

[Diomedes]

hitler would have had to eliminate mds for that logic to work out

simply killing off others who share a strand or two of his family tree does us no goddamn good