Sunday, May 4, 2008
Hyperbole much?
What would the internet be without it?
I got an email from someone who wanted to correct me on something I commented about on another blog—a song lyric. It was an old comment that linked to my old blog address. On my old blog layout, I had an “email me” link that when you clicked on it, was programmed to automatically make the email subject line say, “I love your blog!” Like this. Neat trick, right?
Here’s part of his email:
By the way– bonus ego points for assuming, in your subject line, that people love your blog. It takes either serious egotism or crushing self-esteem issues to pre-emptively congratulate yourself so others won’t have to.
Hmm. Obviously a fan of hyperbole. He continues:
Your blog, by the way, isn’t bad. It aint great, but it has a great layout and is visually pleasing.
Boring as hell, but good visual appeal.
Don’t bother responding. I just wanted you to know that you were being driven crazy by a song lyric that you were hearing incorrectly to begin with.
Have a nice day.
What’s funny is I forgot that I put the “I love your blog” subject line in there right after I did it. So whenever I get an email from someone via my old blog location, I see an email that says “I love your blog!” and get excited. Hey, someone’s writing to tell me they love my blog! Then I open the email and they always remark about the subject line being programmed in. And I remember, oh yeah, I put that there.
It’s like a little practical joke I played on myself. They love my blog! …Oh wait, no. Actually they don’t.
Good has come of this, though. I realized my current blog layout was breaking in IE, so I fixed it. I also realized I didn’t have an “Email me” link on this layout, so I added it. (Top right under the radio.blog.) Do you think the subject line I stuck in there on this layout will generate any hate mail? Maybe I should change it.
Suggestions? Maybe one of these:
i’m for “keepin’ it real yo!”
what a jerk. i swear some people get online and turn into total a-holes. not sure if it’s the anonymity or what.
Those are the people I call “the red pencil”. They wander through life without passion ready to pounce on someone to validate themselves.
Myself, I like: Mmmmm, donuts.
And besides, I love your blog!
Well you certainly made his day. I bet he felt a lot better about himself after that. That poor thing. I for one love your blog.
Especially your pictures.
Those are all great. It would be really cool if you could have them on a random shuffle.
P.S. I love your blog!
I personally like the donuts one. But I would have to ditto bythelbs –you should do a random shuffle. That would be way cool.
I could have them display randomly. Just not sure it’s worth the effort, when I rarely get people emailing me from my blog. (Guess it doesn’t help that I didn’t have an email link till now.)
o.k. I have been catching up on blogs this afternoon and after a few hours of absolute quiet between Thor and I and the hum of the computers, there was audible giggles at your subject lines. My fav is “mmmm donuts”. I SO want to do this on my e-mail link now!
Hmmm…I dunno–if you’re not willing to go to the effort for that extra coolness factor, I might have to downgrade my “I love your blog!” to “I really like your blog! A lot!”
But hey, your blog, your call.
I love your blog.
“Your blog, by the way, isn’t bad. It aint great, but it has a great layout and is visually pleasing.”
Why didn’t he just say “You’re pretty good looking, for an ugly person”? Geez, didn’t his mama ever tell him if he hasn’t got anything nice to say don’t say anything at all? Did he at least give you the correct lyrics?
The first two are a laugh riot, the others are boring as hell ;) Though I AM a choosy mom and I DO choose Jiff. How would one go about doing that for their own email? Assuming they’re too lazy to search the interweb for code?
Actually, all the Internet lyric sites I just checked have the lyric as I thought it was, not his way.
<a href=”mailto:youremail@youremail.com?subject=I love your blog!”>Email Me</a>
And the word “subject” must be lowercase. “Subject” won’t work.
I bet that guy has very high blood pressure.