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March 12, 2003

How To Give Your Spouse a Heart Attack 101
Posted by Jess in Geek Humor

Okay, so maybe I asked for it by labelling my Limerick post, "there was once a girl from Nantucket".

I get emails whenever someone posts a new comment, as does Matt for his posts. Therefore, Matt knows what the auto-email format looks like.

Matt quickly discovers he can fake this auto-email rather easily, especially as the From: address is that of the person who posted the comment.

Matt's been known to pull a prank or twenty.

Matt finishes his own version of the Limerick putting the right names in the right places and sends it off to Jess as a phony "comment".

Jess immediately goes to the website , and sees "0" comments for the Limerick category. Jess deletes her cache file, tries again. Still "0".

Jess, in a panic, calls Matt to see what's going on. Luckily, Jess knows Matt VERY well and recognizes the faint hint of a smile behind his voice and politely asks if it was a joke.

"Of *course* it was!" says Matt in a "I love it when a plan comes together" sort of way.

Luckily, Jess also has a very good sense of humor, and realizes that, as evil a trick it was, Matt definately deserves some mad props for that one!

It makes life a lot more interesting and certainly a lot more fun when you have someone around who keeps you on your toes! :-)

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Yeah... thats right! If anyone would like some pointers on just how to freak out your spouse, let me know. Over the past 9 years, I have learned most of the little idiosyncrasies Jess has and I use them against her. From moving little nick-nacks to different spots around the house, to the most recent, and not to be discussed, limerick I scared her with >:-)

Sinister (err sincerely)
Matt

Posted by: Matt at March 13, 2003 10:05 AM

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