My god! I used to work with somebody like that. Baltimore was a hell hole town and was just a giant armpit, you can't fly anywhere out of Baltimore,blah,blah,blah. I even think the Sun did a story on him about 10-15 years ago. It sounds the same. New York was so great and Baltimore sucked. What always amazed me was if New York was so great and Baltimore was so bad why did he and his family continue to live here?

How do you spell

ad hominem???

Sound like someone is off their meds, big time. Thanks for sharing the very funny material. I'll bet the writer didn't know he or she (although to my ear, it sound like a male) had such a talent for comedy.

I wasn't indignant before, but now?
1) You know my email address
2) One doesn't bite the hand that provides the Path to Funtastic Thursdays
3) I would never waste such an effort without letting the public enjoy it too. (Unnamed paramour seems to think I'm an attention whore Really.)

That being said, the letter is pretty funny. I want to see more of her rage, because she seems like she needs to vent. Problems with boys? Come out in the bloglight little angry sparrow and let your rage fly.

I'll bet little G&A Girl is really annoyed with me and my fleur de sel tater tots (now with paprika and white pepper). Come on mon petit oisseau, bring it.

Now that is funny, EL. Someone definitely forgot to get the prescription refilled. Thnaks for sharing.

To me, the text has the tone of an angry woman, not a man, RtSO, but how can you really tell?

My favorite Baltimore slam was told to me by a better-than-thou Capital Hiller: I'm sure it's an old one, but I found it creative the first time I heard it. At least if you're going to slam our town, make it creative. I can respect creativity.

Why do the migrating birds fly over Baltimore upside down? Because there's nothing worth defecating on.

I've been to G&A. Their fries are boring.

The letter writer sounds like a sad product of the Dundalk public school system and the SuperFund sight he-she grew up on. (Hard to tell the sex, I'm guessing angry post-menopausal female.) If that's what eating at a place like G&A does to your brain, then thank you no. Maybe if you steered your bitchin' Camaro west on Holabird, you might discover a magical land where people walk upright and eat food with silverware. Just a thought.

If that letter had appeared publicly, I would think it was a brilliant fake. Just the right number of misspellings, the impotent rage. "Nu Veau"? This person thinks they are clever. My favorite is "go to G n A" ... the use of "n" for "and". Brilliant. The completely nonsensical use of "colloquial". How does someone know how to spell that word and yet have no clue as to its meaning? I'm guessing a steady diet of French fries and Newport Menthols. "Get some education" ... always a good ending for something semi-literate but spell-checked.

Even though I don't agree with the way it's said, NY (NYC specifically) IS way better than Baltimore. So are many towns down south.

Maybe I'm jaded. I've lived here all of my life and really don't see why anyone would intentionally move here. I'd be long gone if it weren't for family here.

I think G&A Girl is that frank TV guy. He's (she's) doing a pretty good impression of Owlie in that e-mail.

Joke I heard this weekend from my 2nd grade great-niece: Why did the tomato blush? Because it saw the salad dressing.

Lissa, you little instigator you... ; - )

Super Fund sight? How do I get Super Fun Sight? What does it mean? I see everything as being toxic?

Lissa, you crack me up again.

http://epa.gov/superfund/

fancy put down meaning you grew up on top of a toxic waste dump.

I prefer Super FUN Sight, where everything looks awesome!

Oh, a Super Fund *Site*. How silly of me. I assumed someone dissing someone else's spelling could spell.

Oh, OMG, spell check has allocated myriad words to be effectually added to one's vocabulary irregardless of whether or not the meanings are known.

Lissa, Spellcheck makes you spell good, but it don't make you smart. Maybe he's homophone challenged. Don't be a dyshomophoniaphobe. That's a Haight crime.

If you've not read it previously, you have to read Taylor Mali's "The the Impotence of Proofreading". It's even funnier when you see him perform it, but here's a link to the piece:

http://www.taylormali.com/index.cfm?webid=30

*NOTE: There is a little profanity laced in the text....don't know if that will pass the EL-editor, but if it does, it's funny.

The point was that if you are going to rant against someone's grammar and spelling, you might want to proofread your rant.

Not to mention the sexism inherent in deciding the original rant was written by an "angry post-menopausal woman" (as if we have post-menopausal men around). That is just out of left field, and tells us far more about the psychological issues that Wolfie has than it does about the psychological or medical issues the original ranter had.

I'm fond of snark, and the original ranter was rather asking for it, but that is no excuse for sloppiness or sexism in the snark. This is a classy blog, it is.

Speaking as someone who used to live in Baltimore and now lives in New Jersey and works in NYC, I can honestly say New Jersey IS an ACTUAL hell hole. Talk about super fund sites ;-) Actually 'super fun sight' might help me see things better than what they are in this true armpit of America

And, women who aren't post-menopausal don't get angry? Or, men of any stage in life have no anger issues? Not just snarky, Lissa, but totally dumb.

Trouble,
Thanks for the link. I needed a good laugh!

EL, meet winters1, the cousin of our other favorite angry commenter.

True, Joyce. As much as I look forward to the post-menopausal stage of life, if I had to wait for that to be angry, I'd have to do surgery on myself. With a rusty spoon.