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The best email intro I've ever received

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73 pointsGeorgeBevis16 comments

Well, heres mine, a friend introduced me to someone looking for a developer. Pissed myself laughing at it for days.

Hmm. This is the kind of faux-classy thing that Reddit would love. What it is doing on hacker news, and why is it being upvoted?

Because it's nice to get a glimpse into the minds of other people's approaches to dealing with people ...

it's a people-hack ...

Because we all wish our inbox contained more of this and less of, well, what it normally contains.

"limned"

Depict or describe in painting or words

Suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright color or light

I'm contemplating her signature.

Contemplating stealing it? Or just contemplating it somewhere quiet all by yourself?

Would I be right in saying that an introduction of this nature could go either way ? ... I mean, it's a delicate balance, or maybe just my skewed perception of things

I would have thought it was a great way of letting both parties know they have a similar sense of humour, and sets the tone for future emails (i.e. they don't need to be overly formal).

Quite nice really - and I would also presume the sender knows both parties well enough to know how this email would be received.

> I would have thought it was a great way of letting both parties know they have a similar sense of humour

That's assuming that the authors knows that they both actually do appreciate this type of humour. I'd think that if they had that level of familiarity then it would be expected that any email would get reasonable consideration or a phone call would be another possibility.

that was the case one would assume that the author could also have just called on the phone.

That would have went into my spam folder without a second look.

Yeah, I had to read it a few times to realise it wasn't auto-generated content or some other type of spam. But I think the recipients probably knew the sender.

As opposed to those introductions where neither part knows the middle party?

My favorite part is definitely the signature.

I found this rather difficult to read, not funny and trying-way-too-hard.

I would have hit "delete" without making it over the subject line or first paragraph.

Any .jpg or A/S/L of this Captain Bouncytits, plz?

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