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Got the Junk Mail Blues
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Got the Junk Mail Blues |
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netswan Senior Member
since 2000-03-28
Posts 1369Washington |
Junk Mail Blues Just a sittin' here a singing the junk mail blues It's making me kinda crazy, how about you? It started many years ago when I moved away from home my own mail box was proudly painted with green and gold At first it was just the bills that I had somehow acquired then one day ordered a magazine Oh, no, too late, but now I am wiser They sell your name and your age and your shopping habits on a page if you buy lipstick through the mail cosmetic magazines come in with your bills Soon my "snail box" is filled to the brim piled in papers - advertisements over my head and no matter where I complain, I just can't win Just a sittin' here a singing the junk mail blues It's making me kinda crazy, how about you? As I grow older and my fame is far and wide I think I have a chance to win a junk mail ribbon to show off with pride They will wrap it up, all green and blue my name printed ever so neatly, too and they'll send it to me by mail Just a sittin' here a singing the junk mail blues It's making me kinda crazy, how about you? ~netswan |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
So cute, and even your Winner's Ribbon will come in the mail...loved it!  ~ Claire Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
As I grow older and my fame is far and wide I think I have a chance to win a junk mail ribbon to show off with pride They will wrap it up, all green and blue my name printed ever so neatly, too and they'll send it to me by mail I think the only thing to do is ambush the postman before he delivers the post and refuse to take the junk mail off of him and then demand that he returns the junk mail to the addresses they came from. It is worth a try. a great poem. The best thing about e-mail is that you can stop people sending you e-mails, which is why, I guess, they don't send bills through e-mail. ------------------------ "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time". Baltimore Grotto "To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E.E Cummings. "Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth." Pablo Picasso "We Irish are too poetical to be poets, we are a nation of brilliant failures" Oscar Wilde ----- |
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netswan Senior Member
since 2000-03-28
Posts 1369Washington |
Aw, Thank you, Claire Oh, but Bryan in America they do send bills to you through email and you can even pay bills by email now to some places Soon paypal will become international - pay by mail, bill by mail --- oh isn't email grand? Ahum, since I get about 600 email perday, just how do you stop it? I block many, and it goes to trash, but then my email rings and ---it rings to tell me I have deleted items. Isn't that sweet? |
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CMGrimm Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 685USA |
LOLOLOL...that is great netswan... I loved it.. chris Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON. |
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MagnoliaBlue Member
since 2000-05-12
Posts 367 |
In my little town, we all have p.o. boxes as there are no home deliveries. We walk in and open the box, get the snail mail and on the way back out the door there is a huge trash bin sitting there and everyone drops all the junk-mail into it. I asked the post-mistress why she doesn't just cut out the middle man and throw the junk away herself and she said it was against postal regulations...that they have to deliver ALL mail. I think we ought to be able to hang a sign for snail mail that says"no junk allowed!" Yes...we can get email bills... Every month the bill for my ISP arrives in my email and even tells me how many hours I have been on the computer. Loved your poem! MagnoliaBlue Pay a visit to: http://cyberageadventures.com You will love it! "A poem is just an expression of my life and heart."*CJB* ~*My Skipper Jim, I |
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netswan Senior Member
since 2000-03-28
Posts 1369Washington |
Glad you enjoyed! Chris - Thanks for respondiing Magnolia --great idea to have a barrel like that. I am now going to hunt to see if you have a poem flagged for the book! Thanks for responding ~netswan |
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BSC
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since 2000-02-04
Posts 2919New York, USA |
Ha Ha Ha....Love this one Netswan. Half of our garbage bill is "junk mail".... I've tried telling them that no one by the name of "resident" lives here, but they insist on delivering it anyway. Guess I'll name my next dog that and have him tell them, I would guess that if he can get mail, he could be a deduction on income tax! Bonnie [This message has been edited by BSC (edited 06-18-2000).] |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
netswan, ROFL....great poem!! Needed a laugh today!! Got to get me one of those barrels Magnolia was talking about!! I hate juck mail....your name gets put on the list...why can't we ever get it off??Lone Wolf Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end. --Michael W. Smith |
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