The best of the web Day in day ten years ago, on Monday, december 8, 2008, began one of the funniest viral email conversations on the worldwide web.
The Australian internetkomiek David Thorne got a friendly note in the bus from Matthew, one of the other residents of an apartment building in New York. Who went into the weekend a instuiffeestje organize in his new flat. If his friends for too much I would make in the apartment block, it was enough for Matthew to call on the attached mobile number. Also his e-mail address was on the note, and that Matthew himself later lamented…
Thorne interprets the note as soon as an invitation, and replied by mail that he would like the party will be. He invites prompt an extra friend. Matthew – the two do not know each other – replied that it was to be a small events, and repeat the info that the note is just to the neighbors to warn of possible noise. The note is no invitation. But that seems like preaching in the desert.
Hundreds of additional invitations
Thorne is now in good shape and begins to be absurd from the corner: a other friend of him was so angry that he was not invited, causing the comedian to make him need to take, even though it has that rather agresssieve edges. He also wants some of the hundreds of invitations for the party, printing and distributing. He asks of Matthew or $ 120 for the printing costs to cover. The theme of the party is as ‘eighties’, that has Thorne unilaterally decided.
What follows are a few e-mails back and forth, which Matthew almost in despair, it seems. The bad words let him no longer there. The reason why Thorne is so go with the furniture of the poor Matthew. Thorne saw him lugging wicker furniture. The comedian hatred now once wicker furniture.
Or the party actually took place, we do not know. It doesn’t matter much, the fact is that these e-mails after all these years still very laughable.
In the same year tried Thorne also a debt with a drawing of a spider with not eight, but seven legs. Also that email thread went viral. In 2011, collected [his stunts in the book ‘The Internet Is A Playground’. The book was weeks in the top ten of the New York Times Best Seller List, the most important boekenhitlijst of the United States.
