3.16.2009

Sleep emailing

OMG! LMAO! ROTFLOL! This is hilarious. Not so much the concept of sleep emailing itself, but that it warrants a Wikipedia entry. I mean, what kind of explanation is necessary? Who would look this up and be surprised to learn that, "Oh! Sleep emailing is when you email while you're asleep!" Probably a sleep emailer. WTF?! DUH.

What IS surprising, is that the first case of sleep email wasn't recorded until just three months ago, in December 2008. I find it hard to imagine that in all the years since Al Gore invented the internet, no sonnambulist has ever emailed while in his sleepwalking state. At least someone got right out and Wikipedia'd it, saw there was no entry, and hastily made a 2-sentence page for it. Thank you.

Of course, sleep emailing is similar in nature to drunk emailing, which Google has tried to curb with its Mail Goggles (I need this...but for Facebook). In both cases, you probably get a lot of this kinda thing: "Heydfs, Whatsd'dk updfSF? I gtoota go toafkldjnjffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff....go clean yoru room."

For the record, I'd like to propose we portmanteau the shit out of this disease and start calling it "sleemailing." It's fun to say, and it's easier to say if you're really, really sleepy. Or drunk.

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