I stumbled across a great pair of old (well, 36 years) letters today. The first one is an asinine complaint by a football fan who feared being injured by paper airplanes:
That letter is hilarious on its own. When paired with the Cleveland Browns response, the combination is utterly delightful:
Come on, admit it: aren’t there days you wish you could respond that bluntly to a critic without losing your job?
– the chaplain
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Moe
December 28, 2010 at 10:53 am
Yummy yummy. Makes me feel better all over.
Sarge
December 28, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Well, at least once-upon=a=time, someone, somewhere in the world displayed common sense and sanity.
the chaplain
December 29, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Moe & Sarge:
The story gave me the warm fuzzies too.
Richard T
January 7, 2011 at 10:24 am
You might like (from Wikpaedia):
‘An unlikely piece of British legal history occurred in the case Arkell v. Pressdram. The plaintiff was the subject of an article relating to illicit payments, and the magazine had ample evidence to back up the article. Arkell’s lawyers wrote a letter in which, unusually, they said: “His attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply”. The response consisted, in part, of the following: “[We] would therefore be grateful if you could inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off”. In the years following, the magazine would use this case as a euphemism for an obscene reply: for example, “We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram”; or, perhaps, “His reply was similar to that given to the plaintiff in Arkell v. Pressdram”.[15]