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The Ultimate Chain Letter

The Ultimate Chain Letter Hello, my name is Alfonso Merkin. I am suffering from rare and deadly diseases, poor scores on final exams, lack of sexual activity, fear of being kidnapped and executed by anal electrocution, and guilt for not sending out 50 billion forwards sent to me by people who actually believe that--if you send them--that poor 6-year-old girl in Arkansas with lung cancer brought on by second-hand smoke from the cigarettes of the big bad men who kidnapped her and took pornographic pictures of her for use on their child pornography website, will get 5 cents every time you send me the letter. Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you and everyone else you send $10,000 of his own money? How stupid are you? Ooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get laid by every Victoria's Secret model in the catalogue! What a bunch of BS. So basically, this message is a big F*!% YOU to all the people out there who have not...

An Exemplary College Application Essay

An Exemplary College Application Essay ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3A. ESSAY: IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET TO KNOW YOU, THE APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty Minute Brownies in tw...