Work Email

An email thread went around work today. Someone started off by posting this article about global warming. (The title, in case you're too lazy to follow the link is: Scientists say pollution may combat global warming)

Someone else replied:

I wonder what side the environmentalist (I had to ask my officemates what the PC term for tree _____ is these days) will take?

Came the reply:

Actually, some tree-huggers prefer said term.

There was something funny here about the environmental position, I just can't remember what it was, I did happen to like her defending the 'tree-hugger' label. There were a few comments after hers to a similar effect.

-asl

That sparked the reply:

24/M/Seattle

The conversation dwindled quickly into people pretending to be in chat rooms hitting on other people. (Get it... asl — a/s/l — age/sex/location — ok, it's chatter slang. If you don't get it I can't help you out.)

Eventually the woman whose initials are 'ASL' decided to add another comment to the thread. She gave her 2 cents then changed her sign off:

-asl (Those are my initials—I don't want to know that much about you. Someday you'll get over it.)

The little light bulb went off over someone else's head because he felt the need to inform half the company:

I just got what everyone was going on about. Hee heee....

Oh bother. These, kids, are the best and the brightest my generation has to offer.

In all actuality, I did find the whole thing rather entertaining. Lame. Immature. And highly amusing.