The compleat letter writer
Sometime last week, I’d thrown up a link to this brilliant letter Groucho Marx wrote when Warner Brothers hit him with a notice of copyright violation.
A more contemporary master is Australian humorist David Thorne [website] — I’ve been a fan since the time he responded to a bank notice about settling an overdrawn account by submitting the drawing of a spider. More recently, some unsuspecting bloke moved into an adjacent building and decided to have a housewarming party — and by the time David was done with him… never mind, read.
And now he’s topped his own standards, in this exchange with a landlord who didn’t know just what she was getting into when she sent him a reminder that he was not allowed to keep pets in his apartment. Statutory Warning: Don’t read at work, especially if you are the kind with a very loud laugh.
This is hilarious…
Absolutely hilarious! And the statutory warning must be taken very seriously.
The philosophy of Groucho still holds true today
Yeah. And seemingly, his skill at taking the mickey out of overzealous folks
Whoa…the jew sterotype/hatred in the Groucho Marx letter was a little too much for me to take. Imagine someone writing such letter in this day and age – the whole jewish lobby would’ve jumped down his throat.
When it hit the gold fish email I couldnt control myself – Sorry didnt heed your warning. But I did forward it to the folks near me so that they dont think I had gone mad
the last one was good, but i didn’t LOL.