Comments on: Go Ask Aunt Becky

By: Gunfighter

Gunfighter — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:53:22 +0000

I’m a fighter by nature, so it probably won’t shock you to hear that when I get crackpot political email about the President being a Marxist/socialist/terrorist/closet-Muslim/America hater/racist blah, blah, blah… I tend to take a rhetorical knife to them and dismember their stupid “facts”.

I find it most effective as a way to stop getting more of the same emails from these people, as I always “reply to all” so everyone that they forwarded the stupid email to, knows that I think that the sender is an idiot.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:08:37 +0000

Ignorance can sometimes truly be bliss…until *they* blow up all the phones…cell…home…work…leaving a million messages.

*they* = family. Sigh.

By: Dot

Dot — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:37:05 +0000

I have a good friend who sent me similar emails. I got the PowerPoint thing too. I finally asked her to stop sending me all the pro-Bush and anti-Arab (“Kill them all and let God sort them out”) stuff. She said she had created a distribution list and didn’t realize she was sending me all that, and she stopped. Didn’t seem to be offended — she knew I was not a conservative.

By: JennyMac

JennyMac — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:03:29 +0000

I have an older person who also loves to send me the Anti Obama tirades including how he is a terrorist. Since this is not a grandmotherly type neighbor but my FATHER, I assured him that if so, I would read that in the news or perhaps on a political pundit website and not in fact from a email with 17,000 forwards from his friend at Microsoft.

By: Your Aunt Becky

Your Aunt Becky — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:19:34 +0000

Dave swears by Mountain Dew but I can’t stand the stuff anymore. It reminds me of my stoner days too much.

By: p jane

p jane — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:38:12 +0000

Dude…my BOSS sends those (and that very PowerPoint just last week) to all five of us in her department. Now, one co-worker wholly, vocally agrees, three delete them unread while fuming silently and I just shake my head. To her the world is RIGHT or WRONG and she can’t wrap her head around the fact that voting Republican doesn’t mean you have to rant like a small-minded bigot against everything you don’t support. (To be fair, MIL is much the same, only without technology. She stopped buying CoverGirl cosmetics when Ellen Degeneres became a spokesperson for the company…yeah.)

Thanks for taking time to entertain me every day, even if I am late in reading sometimes And purple IS a flavour–you have GOT to try MountainDew diet UltraViolet…pretty and delicious.

By: Your Aunt Becky

Your Aunt Becky — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:41:09 +0000

(I am DEAD serious about the fluffy kitties calendar. I about puked)

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:03:13 +0000

It always amazes me when my mother-in-law makes some comment about my wife that is so completely wrong about her, and I want to ask, have you met your daughter? Ha ha, do they know he has a penis, that just cracked me up!

By: Your Aunt Becky

Your Aunt Becky — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:03:07 +0000

YOU SERIOUSLY GOT THAT EMAIL? Because I was like, “HOLY SHIT, could you BE any less Christmas-y? Now I want to kill myself, thank you.”

If you are my sister-in-law, I am very, very happy. I need a sister-in-law.

By: Your Aunt Becky

Your Aunt Becky — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:01:52 +0000

Snopes.com is probably the best site out there except maybe my blog (duh) and The Onion.