fine whine

Microsoft Outlook sure has some funny quirks. I've got genuine complaints to level against that bloated p.o.s. but for the sake of not boring the heck out of everybody I'm not going to list them. That, and I only have ten megabytes of webspace. Instead, I'll point out something funny that happens and makes me laugh. And then start muttering...

I work for a company that uses Outlook to communicate with vendors in Mexico. What the Mexicans use for their email is not known (by me) but somewhere between the two countries a little extra gets added into messages.

Funny, that sounds like smuggling, doesn't it? Inadvertent humour, gotta love it.

Anyway, the names of the people at one company do funny things in the email headers. Every time an email is replied to or forwarded it gets an extra first name tacked onto it. Such that I had an email today that was CCed to Deborah Deborah Deborah Deborah Deborah Deborah Deborah Deborah R----- and Lourdes Lourdes Lourdes Lourdes Lourdes Lourdes Lourdes Lourdes Lourdes Lourdes Lourdes Lourdes H----- and Mirena Mirena Mirena Mirena P-----. There's some method to the madness, as I can determine that Deborah's been on eight iterations of the message, Lourdes on all twelve and Mirena on four. Oddly enough, Mirena had been CCed back at the beginning and removed, and re-added by the time it reached me. In fact, three other people were removed after four or five repetitions. Though that is strange, with office politics and all it is not surprising.

What is really funny about this whole thing is that ever since I was exposed to a flash animation by Weebls, any time I see or hear any repetition I latch onto it with "badger badger badger..." ad nauseam. I mutter it under my breath like a mantra.

Oh, for those of impressionable minds like mine, don't click on that link.