6/9/2009


Three things I learned later than everyone else on the planet: 1) the Geico lizard is a gecko-- get it? Geico . . . gecko-- I didn't; 2) 9/11 has the same digits as 911, which is the number most people in America call when there is an emergency-- coincidence? who knows, but it never dawned on me; 3) the "re:" that shows up in e-mail headers stands for "regarding," I'm not sure what I thought it stood for, maybe "reply," but mainly I ignored it-- and I just learned this fact last Friday.

6 comments:

eric said...

Well, you should be the first to know that in "The Big Lebowski" when The Dude is writing a check for $.69 to buy half and half at the beginning of the movie, and Bush Sr. is on the tv screen saying, "This aggression will not stand" that his check is dated 9-11.

Walter Sobchek said...

And you should further know that said check is post-dated as a few days later, Lebowski's landlord invites him to the 'what-have-you' while also politely reminding him that it was 'already the tenth' and The Dude had not yet paid his rent.

Dave said...

but he does take "notes" for his free-form dance performance . . .

Whitney said...

The RE: in the subject line is for "Reply" and appears when you hit the Reply button.

Same as FW: is for "Forward" when you hit the Forward button. (Not "For Whatit'sworth" or anything like that.)

RE: in the body of a message, document, text message, etc, means "regarding."

"Dave, I wanted to talk to you RE: the reply/regarding thing."

The Latin "in re" in the body of a message also means regarding.

Whitney said...

Dave, have you seen the film "Anvil! The Story of Anvil"? It seems right up your alley.

rob said...

not to complicate things, but the re: in an email header both *means* regarding and *indicates* a reply. the new message is regarding an earlier message.

ah, fuck it. nobody cares.

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