Thursday, December 18, 2008

Dear Anonymous

To Whom It May Concern

Anonymous blog responses are only well understood by your readers when they don't contain an abundance of pronouns. Those of us who read your responses don't know where "up here" and "down there" are. Furthermore, we also do not have a frame of reference for words like "I" or "them".

You see anonymous, you are anonymous. This means quite literally that the source of your words is completely unknown to those of us reading them.

We do thank you for your responses anonymous, but please refrain from using words that suggest familiarity, when in fact, the rest of us have no goddamn idea who the hell you are.

Thank you.

Kindest regards,

Your readers

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello Jon,

You are so right. We always did think alike on issues like this, don't you think. We talked about it when you were out here visiting last, and when you and Paul took me to your favorate little casino / restaurant off the strip.

Jon said...

Alright Anonymous - now you are just screwing with me. You have a very twisted sense of humor. I love it!

Anonymous said...

lol - Jon this anonymous is your former boss- I couldn't figure out how to create an identity - I was kinda hoping to stay under the radar for a little bit longer - ah well - Barb

Anonymous said...

And I'm the anonymous screwing with you in the first comment here - but not the original anonymous. Did you know there were so many of us???!!! You and Paul were grweat hosts when IBM sent me to Vegas. Sorry I wasn't there to see snow though (but I've got enough in MN)