Ken at Popehat Hilariously Hassles Spammer
If you need a smile today, go to the excellent site Popehat, and read this amusing post by Ken White, my pro bono lawyer (along with Ron Coleman) and a very funny guy. Ken likes to return emails to the spammers who often contact us bloggers, hoping to place their marketing pieces on our sites. He is a sort of legal David Thorne
Dorothy:
I am thrilled, relieved, and more than a little inappropriately agitated to hear it.
Would a guest post extol the virtues of Destin as a recreational locale? That might make a very pleasant change of pace. We write about grim things, Dorothy. Ours is not a place of carefree beach frolic. No, we write about injustice and censorship and brutality and violence and ponies and racism and corruption. Beware, this is a place for tears, as Scarpia says to Cavaradossi in the course of the latter’s regrettable encounter with the Italian court system. So: a post about happy people doing happy things in a happy place would be like a refreshing zephyr, with adjacent condominiums and entertainment venues.
However, my concern is that a guest post about Destin would be a little too cheerful, a little too bright. The transition from one of my posts about wrongful convictions or one of Clark’s posts about the impending overthrow of the United States government into a post about sunny Destin might be abrupt and jarring for our readers. So I was thinking: could your top-notch writer start the guest post with something ugly and sordid and low about Destin, and then ease in to the nice things?
He goes on to suggest a specific sordid and low scenario involving a dead podiatrist. Truly, the whole thing is a masterpiece, although I end up feeling a little sorry for poor Dorothy.
Just a little.
I just looked up this place…it is located on the scenic highway on the gulf coast, about halfway between Panama City and Pensacola.
Elephant Stone (8a7f08) — 4/14/2013 @ 3:48 pmI’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the population of ponies there is exceeded by only the population of pelicans and cranes.
Destin is beautiful and I like to think Dorothy means well, but Ken’s response is delicious:
… and it just gets better from there.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 4/14/2013 @ 4:19 pmI heart Destin.
JD (b63a52) — 4/14/2013 @ 5:03 pmHilarious indeed. What makes me laugh most, however, is seeing just how much fun Ken has writing these responses. One should love what they do and clearly, he does. He has elevated these response to spammer letters to an art form in and of itself.
Dana (292dcf) — 4/14/2013 @ 5:13 pmDorothy won’t get it.
glenn (647d76) — 4/14/2013 @ 5:49 pmPopehat has become a daily hit for me, even though I’m not a lawyer. “My lawyers read and comment at Popehat!”, now there’s a reply to a stupid thuggish lawyer letter.
htom (412a17) — 4/14/2013 @ 7:22 pmI like ponies. Not too crazy about Puccini.
nk (d4662f) — 4/14/2013 @ 9:28 pmIf anything, the comments over at Popehat are even better!
Ponies! Be afraid. Be very, very afraid!!!!
Bill M (e0a4e5) — 4/15/2013 @ 4:03 pmJust another in a long list of delightful, FL Gulf Coast towns that still has that small-town ambiance that some of us are still searching for.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 4/15/2013 @ 4:10 pmBetter still is Ken’s response to an exchange he had with a British solicitor today.
Don’t miss it.
SPQR (768505) — 4/15/2013 @ 4:37 pm