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atomic_robo presents us with a new tale of Sir Reginald. It's...ummm...


Well, it's The Final Days of Sir Reginald. And it's amazing.


As though you didn't already have reason enought to be reading Robo's LJ...

benjamin
Who expects sirreginald to be rather cross about this

SEPTEMBER 18th, MY MONKEYS!!!

     Yep, it’s September 18, 2006, which means that it’s time for The 9^th Annual Wish benjamin’s Mother A Happy Birthday…Day.

     My mother lives in Orlando, Florida, and I live in Urbana, Illinois. According to Google maps, we’re 1,065 miles apart. As such, we don’t see each other very often, perhaps once or twice a year. Add to that the fact that she becomes cross when her children give her presents and you’ll see why my options are pretty much limited to a phone call. Well, they used to be.
     You see, in my senior year of college, I started using The Interwebs to get people to wish my mother a happy birthday. That first year, about twelve people sent her an e-mail. The number has increased every year, and I hope that this year is no exception.
     I love my mama more than a whole stack of take-away curry and Chinese food and authentic Mexican food from El Charro. So show her some love on her…umm…39^th birthday, and tell her that her batshit son sent you.

     …

     Okay, tell her that her batshit son named benjamin sent you. Sorry, Matthew, Jason, and Nathan #2, but you know I speak the truth.

SHE IS:
Annet Stein
n8annet at hotmail dott com

                                                    Love to all of you,

 
                                                            benjamin sTone

PS – As a bonus, please see the original e-mail below, salvaged from a text-file dump of my old Pine account at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
PPS – Tell your friends. Even strangers are welcome to tell my mama how cool she is.
PPPS -- Yes, I was signing my name that way back in 1997, too. It was an interwebs error thing.

                                                                            
THE ORIGINAL E-MAIL FROM NINE YEARS AGO:

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:41:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: <b-stone@students.uiuc.edu>
X-Sender: b-stone@ux9.cso.uiuc.edu 
To: XXXXXXXXX
Subject: Happy Birthday to my mom.
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970917203716.3946A-100000@ux9.cso.uiuc.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Status: RO
X-Status:  

I KNOW EVERYONE HATES MASS-MAILINGS, but...

WISH HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOM, ANNET STEIN !!!!  You'll get a similar
message in a week, to do the same for my brother Matthew, but we'll deal with
that later.  My Mom's b-day is the 18 of Sept, don't worry if you're a day or
two late, just send e-mail birthday wishes to:

annetn8@XXXXXXXX.com

THANKS!!!!

benjamin sTone