Some of the World's Worst Query Letters

Discussion in 'The Workshop' started by garamet, Sep 25, 2014.

  1. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    A regular feature of WritersWeekly.

    Warning: Place all beverages out of reach of keyboard before reading. Wouldn't want you to damage anything. :spit:
    garamet, Sep 25, 2014
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  2. ed629

    ed629 Morally Inept Banned

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    I thought you were going to post links to Dayton's "Something I will never understand..." topics.
    ed629, Sep 25, 2014
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  3. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    My favorite:

    :rofl:
    garamet, Sep 25, 2014
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  4. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    S/he's a professor of english. It's just that english is not his/her native language.
    Lanzman, Sep 25, 2014
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  5. mburtonk

    mburtonk mburtonkulous

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    The formatting of that page hurts my eyes.
    mburtonk, Sep 25, 2014
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  6. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    ^Yeah, I don't think they've ever updated the site since it started.
    garamet, Sep 25, 2014
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  7. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Talk about web 0.03! I had to dig up a copy of Mosaic to read that.
    gul, Sep 25, 2014
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  8. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    I'm thinking a degree in English means pretty much jack shit. When I was an E-6 in The Army we had a Japanese dude who had such a degree.
    I had to (sans degree) write NCOER's (Non Commissioned Officer Report which is basically an efficiency report and means a lot for future promotions) for all his subordinate NCO's.
    These people didn't even work for me. So why did I have to write them? Because this clown with a "degree" couldn't communicate worth a shit and his reports were gibberish at best.
    I had to take the data he gathered and mold coherent reports so that these young NCO's would get the report they deserved in a timely manner.
    And of course he made E-7 before I did which is par for the course in The Army.
    oldfella1962, Sep 25, 2014
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  9. NAHTMMM

    NAHTMMM Perpetually sondering

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    i suggest u mine 4 fish
    NAHTMMM, Sep 25, 2014
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