Today at work, we received the weirdest letter ever... 
Let me explain a bit. I work at a computer magazine. I am part of the editorial staff, responsible for the hardware section of our monthly magazine and our website. Our readers don't usually send in letters -- the benefit of working for a computer magazine is that our readers do know how to use e-mail. So apart from the occasional computer user who has trouble with his internet and therefore decides to use old-fashioned pen & paper, we rarely ever get mail from our readers.
Today was an exception. There was a big, fat, white envelope in our mailbox. It wasn't specifically addressed to anyone of our staff; neither was it addressed to one of our 'departments'. So we opened it up, only to find page after page after page of barely legible handwriting. It wasn't until we did a close inspection that we realized what we were reading were our own articles. Apparently, someone has hand-copied our whole magazine from the opening column to the closing-'next month...'
If you think this is weird, it gets better: the person in question didn't bother to use spaces between the words and, even more disturbing, not on any of the 100+ written pages we were able to find a single spelling mistake. Not a single strike-though word or tippex'ed letter. So that either means that the person is a genius (albeit autistic) and therefore doesn't make a single error, or (and that is why I say 'disturbing') the person wrote a fresh new page every time he made a mistake...
Unfortunately we haven't been able to discover any clue as to the identity of our mystery reader. The package was postmarked in The Hague, which doesn't tell us much. We have been able to identify his 'work' as being a copy of our September 2006 issue, meaning he either has an old copy or he's been working for almost a year on his 'project'. In either case, we are seriously considering sending him/her a couple of fresh new copies of our magazine for his/her pleasure... so... who are you! :-P
Let me explain a bit. I work at a computer magazine. I am part of the editorial staff, responsible for the hardware section of our monthly magazine and our website. Our readers don't usually send in letters -- the benefit of working for a computer magazine is that our readers do know how to use e-mail. So apart from the occasional computer user who has trouble with his internet and therefore decides to use old-fashioned pen & paper, we rarely ever get mail from our readers.
Today was an exception. There was a big, fat, white envelope in our mailbox. It wasn't specifically addressed to anyone of our staff; neither was it addressed to one of our 'departments'. So we opened it up, only to find page after page after page of barely legible handwriting. It wasn't until we did a close inspection that we realized what we were reading were our own articles. Apparently, someone has hand-copied our whole magazine from the opening column to the closing-'next month...'
If you think this is weird, it gets better: the person in question didn't bother to use spaces between the words and, even more disturbing, not on any of the 100+ written pages we were able to find a single spelling mistake. Not a single strike-though word or tippex'ed letter. So that either means that the person is a genius (albeit autistic) and therefore doesn't make a single error, or (and that is why I say 'disturbing') the person wrote a fresh new page every time he made a mistake...
Unfortunately we haven't been able to discover any clue as to the identity of our mystery reader. The package was postmarked in The Hague, which doesn't tell us much. We have been able to identify his 'work' as being a copy of our September 2006 issue, meaning he either has an old copy or he's been working for almost a year on his 'project'. In either case, we are seriously considering sending him/her a couple of fresh new copies of our magazine for his/her pleasure... so... who are you! :-P
Hoe bizar!