May 29th, 2001
Hey did you get an email that said
“Possible Virus - Check Your C: Drive“?
Did you follow the instructions?
Did you search for sulfnbk.exe?
Did you delete this file?
Congratulations. You’re an idiot.
Sulfnbk.exe was put in Windows98 to restore long filenames. It’s a hoax.
And you just deleted this file because one of your AOL “Forwarding friends” told you to.
For more information on this hoax, check out Antivirus.About.Com.
About ten of these emails have hit my inbox… and counting.
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May 28th, 2001
Y2K Mike
The web looks like it can use a laugh right about now.
Remember what you were doing during Y2K?
Making sure you weren’t in an elevator or on a train?
Waiting for the Russian missles to blow us to kingdom come?
Holding your breath when the clock struck midnight?
Not reading my Newsletter when I TOLD you nothing was going to happen????
Well, I was running a series called “Y2K Mike” at the time. It started on New Year’s Day, and quite frankly the world was pretty sick of words like “Y2K” and “Millenium”, so I canned it and never finished it.
Since we all like to get roped into tales of hardship that may/may not have happened… here is the harrowing tale of a survivalist and his wife being trapped in their Y2K shelter for nine horrible days, while his redneck buddies let them think the United States was destroyed (laughing their asses off above ground).
A hoax you say?
Please don’t insult me.
I assure you the story of Y2K Mike is quite real*, and all the cynics can go to hell.
*In light of this article, maybe I better flat-out say it’s a PARODY. Penned in January 2000, with a new shock ending rewritten last night, which you may find pretty amusing…
…or not.
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May 28th, 2001
Get noticed on my site…. submit a 274×58 banner and be placed in several key zones on www.ericbrooks.com.
Click Here, and sign on for an account. The banners have to be on your site. When you’re done, give me about a day or two to put them into rotation, then you’ll get a name and password to check your stats (clickthru’s exposures, all that fun stuff).
It only took four days, but I finally got the scripts to work.
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May 26th, 2001
Everything you know…
… is because someone told you it is so.
- Think about it (Philosophy 101)-
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May 23rd, 2001
Contrary to popular opinion, Jon Sullivan and I have pretty much been laughing our asses off over the Kaycee fiasco.
Think about the “Suzie” episode on Seinfeld.
You laughed. I heard it.
She got us good, didn’t she?
Sure we were hurt, dismayed, shocked, lost our faith in humanity, locked ourselves in a room, curled in a fetal position, wouldn’t eat our dessert…
But it was great.
When you guys are all done being mad at Debbie (assuming she exists…) I would like to welcome her into my very small (but probably larger that your…) circle of friends.
Any woman that can move so many people with her words like that is one hell of a writer and has my respect. She’s probably a better writer than Lance Arthur, Jeffrey Zeldman and Halcyon combined.
Hell, maybe even a better writer than me…
Ok, let’s not go overboard now. ;0)
Whaddya say Debbie, wanna be buddies?
The rest of you, get over yourselves, okay?
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