• Welcome to The Cave of Dragonflies forums, where the smallest bugs live alongside the strongest dragons.

    Guests are not able to post messages or even read certain areas of the forums. Now, that's boring, don't you think? Registration, on the other hand, is simple, completely free of charge, and does not require you to give out any personal information at all. As soon as you register, you can take part in some of the happy fun things at the forums such as posting messages, voting in polls, sending private messages to people and being told that this is where we drink tea and eat cod.

    Of course I'm not forcing you to do anything if you don't want to, but seriously, what have you got to lose? Five seconds of your life?

WEIRD MAIL

#1 bro

FEELING GREAT, FEELING GOOD, HOW ARE YOU?
Okay, so the other day I got the strangest thing in the mail. It had no return address, but it had a postmark from the city I live in, so it was probably someone I know.

It was a notepad that was merchandise from the movie Kung Fu Panda. Each page has a sort of red Oriental-style border, some lines to write stuff on, and then at the bottom it says "I'm a Kung Fu Warrior!" with a picture of the panda from the movie. This would be somewhat normal, except for one thing. In the center of the first page of notes there is a yellow post-it note placed perpendicular to the sheets of paper, with the phrase "Oh, Most Definitely" written on it. There is nothing written on any of the pages (unless it's in invisible ink).

HOW VERY ODD. This is possibly the strangest thing that has happened to me in a long time. My mom thinks it might be from someone at my school, because in first and second grade I went around telling everyone how much I loved pandas, and so maybe someone gave me a panda-related gift because they know I like that stuff. On the other hand, the letter is addressed to the long version of my first name that I rarely use, and it's not obvious that it's my full name. (read, if my name was Rick, it might have been addressed to Frederick). So, kind of odd.

Personally, I am really hoping for follow-up mail, maybe something like two playing cards, each with a bible verse, and then a cryptic clue leading me to an painting by Michealangelo? :P

Anyway, has something like this ever happened to you? Share your stories!
 
Okay, so the other day I got the strangest thing in the mail. It had no return address, but it had a postmark from the city I live in, so it was probably someone I know.

It was a notepad that was merchandise from the movie Kung Fu Panda. Each page has a sort of red Oriental-style border, some lines to write stuff on, and then at the bottom it says "I'm a Kung Fu Warrior!" with a picture of the panda from the movie. This would be somewhat normal, except for one thing. In the center of the first page of notes there is a yellow post-it note placed perpendicular to the sheets of paper, with the phrase "Oh, Most Definitely" written on it. There is nothing written on any of the pages (unless it's in invisible ink).

HOW VERY ODD. This is possibly the strangest thing that has happened to me in a long time. My mom thinks it might be from someone at my school, because in first and second grade I went around telling everyone how much I loved pandas, and so maybe someone gave me a panda-related gift because they know I like that stuff. On the other hand, the letter is addressed to the long version of my first name that I rarely use, and it's not obvious that it's my full name. (read, if my name was Rick, it might have been addressed to Frederick). So, kind of odd.

Personally, I am really hoping for follow-up mail, maybe something like two playing cards, each with a bible verse, and then a cryptic clue leading me to an painting by Michealangelo? :P

Anyway, has something like this ever happened to you? Share your stories!
National Treasure material. when that set of 2 jokers
playing cards show up can I join the treasure hunt?!?
 
The weirdest stuff I've ever gotten in mail is those 419 Nigerian scams in my email.
 
Once I got an e-mail selling me condoms. And they also quoted the bible in it.

O_o
 
ancestry.it
Ancestors
Förfädrarna försöker ge dig ett råd. Ta till dig rådet.
Ibland kan en liten knuff i rätt riktning göra all skillnad i världen. Allteftersom vi hittar nya ledtrådar och möjliga träffar vill vi att du är den som först får reda på det. Därför glädjer det oss att berätta att vi kommer veckovis att skicka uppdateringar med nya och gamla Ancestry-tips som du ännu inte använt dig av.

Hur fungerar det med tipsmeddelanden?
För att spara tid och hjälpa dig med din forskning söker vi ständigt i våra samlingar efter möjliga registerträffar enligt informationen i släktträdet. När du hittar något som verkar passa (AncestryHint™), ser du en symbol i form av ett vibrerande löv
(Hint Notification Leaf) i ditt träd. Du får dessutom ett e-postmeddelande med ungefär nedanstående innehåll. Här följer exempel på ett meddelande:

Tree Hints Example
Har du redan tips?

Kanske finns redan AncestryHints™ i ditt träd. Klicka här för att besöka tipssidan.

Visit your hints page

Du har redan ordnat det så att du veckovis får automatiska tipsmeddelanden som detta. Om du vill ändra preferenserna för släktträdmeddelanden ber vi att du klickar här.

SEKRETESSFÖRKLARING

Ancestry.se säljer inte, hyr inte ut eller på annat sätt sprider den personliga information som du förser oss med, till tredje part i form av annonsörer.

Frågor? Kommentarer? Vänligen svara inte på det här e-brevet eftersom vi inte kan svara på meddelanden som skickas till den här adressen. Besök istället vårt onlinehjälpcenter för att få svar på vanliga frågor Eller skicka ett meddelande. Du kan även kontakta oss på:

The Generations Network, Inc.
Att.: Customer Service.

360 West 4800 North
Provo, UT 84604
USA

Redigera dina kontoalternativ eller avbryt abonnemanget för denna kommunikation.

Du abonnerar på Ancestry Special Offers (specialerbjudanden) som: minnow14@gmail.com.

I got this in an e-mail the other day. Looks like it's from Ancestry.com.

Can anyone translate this? It looks like Swedish to me, but I could be wrong.
 
Well, I didn't get this, but it was a letter once recieved by a man whose mother had recently passed away, sent by a utilities company:

Dear Mrs Pack (deceased),

Please could you explain the reason for failure to pay your most recent bill.
 
The most weird email I got had the subject line "Re: ďťźďťŚďťĄďş¨ďť ďť ďşś" and it was weird because it said this:
P.S. Could you send me your pronunciation of these words by 10:00 tonight:

assume new askew crew blue superb Susan huge Hugh mute pew
from someone who already knew me (and what I sounded like) and stuff. I was really confused!
Uhh, sort-of related- once, my bassoon teacher got a strange text message that said something like "You bitch! I let you stay at my house and THIS is how you repay me?!" it was a wrong number o_O what a message to accidentally send to the wrong person!
 
I got this in an e-mail the other day. Looks like it's from Ancestry.com.

Can anyone translate this? It looks like Swedish to me, but I could be wrong.

It's just an ad. And yeah, it's Swedish.

'Ibland kan en liten knuff i rätt riktning göra all skillnad i världen.'

Means 'Sometimes a small nudge can put you in the right direction'.

Too lazy to translate more. (Using this: http://lexin2.nada.kth.se/swe-eng.html )
 
I have gotten mail addressed to Ash Ketchum before. Coupon for free tokens at a local arcade, a letter about college scholarships or something that was probably a scam, and a free Gillette razor. Maybe other stuff.
 
MYSTERY SOLVED.

This one girl in my class sent it to me. I'm still not quite sure why. :|
 
I have gotten mail addressed to Ash Ketchum before. Coupon for free tokens at a local arcade, a letter about college scholarships or something that was probably a scam, and a free Gillette razor. Maybe other stuff.

:D

My e-mail address is evil. It apparently used to belong to some guy named Robert who owned an eBay account. I got e-mails from eBay a lot.

Apparently, I also got something about a family reunion.

I get e-mails from all sorts of weird places.

One of my classmates' sister apparently got e-mails from a drug company. O_o
 
I just checked my spam folder. Here's the weirdest stuff:


Unread Amrut Increase the size and girth of your manhood Fri, 8/1/08 1KB
Unread Akan Enjoy the juicy boobs
 
i get lots of spam from hackers sending fake email to me saying that my bank account stuff had problems, i had overdue debt fees to owe to the bank, etc. and there was also an email asking me if i wanted to buy stock. HECK I'M 12!!!!!!!!!
 
I always get spam, and also e-mails saying "I found you a new Job." I'm only eleven.
Can't remember anything weirder than that.
The spoon in a box one was amusing.
EDIT: Oh yeah. I once got one that was apparently from a Canadian person. It had lots of numbers in it, and all I can remember was the word "ph4armacy." There were also things that didn't sound like they came from the pharmacy at all, such as things that sounded like animals.
 
Back
Top Bottom