Don't just chat here!

Send us leters.

It makes us feel loved, while simultaneously allowing us to have a "Letters page".

KG

I have, I have!

I even re-used a post here for the second Hot Topic (which never got used [face_cry])


giant_frying_pan

Why does nobody remember Scott Ross?

If I send you mail will you send me pretty flowers and a hat?

will this make us pen pals?

oh joy

I usually only write to people in prisons.

Suckers.

Hey, what's going on!

I'm trying to send you mail at the address shown (digi_letters@falsebit.digiworld.tv) and I keep getting the 'address not recognised by server' message.

What's the rumpus? Am I using the wrong address?

Is that a joke or are you just a bit dim?

Here's a clue: the falsebit. is a false bit. No, hang on. That's not a clue, it's the answer. I must look such a fool.

I must be a bit dim.

Why the gibbering PRETTY FLOWER would anyone ask for more letters to be sent and then put the wrong email address at the bottom of the letters page? Not very convenient when you want to cut and paste the address to the email address bar is it, hmmm?

Or is it a joke? In that case could someone tell me if it's a funny one?

I think it's a joke. If it isn't it's quite possibly the funniest non joke I've seen in the last 2.25 weeks.

Made all the funnier by this topic.

Well done that man.

a joke indeed.... if you "don't get it" then we "can't explain it".....

And there was I thinking it was to stop spam bots from grabbing the real address.

That would be my guess. As has been common practice for, ooh, years and years now.

However, there are alternatives which the Digiweb folks might look into (depending how much techie gubbins they can cope with.)

Are they like those new coco pops that look like piles?

They go snap, crackle and pop like piles.

Ah that would explain why I'VE NEVER SEEN IT ANYWHERE ELSE EVER.

I really must try to get out less and become more of a tedious internet nerd.

I keep meaning to write a letter. But I want to make sure it's really, really funny first.

Dont bother man, i sent two really cack letters and both got posted with extremely funny replys and even a reveal-oh.(presumably from Herr Nash).

Let the digi guys take care of the comedy.

Effort-me-not

Around 71% of the letters I send are either good, or salvagable by a good reply. Most of the time I just present some material for the boys to mess about with.


giant_frying_pan

I never used to put any effort into writing letters to magazines but getting "into" the Digiworld ones is quite good fun. Especially the weekend just gone, where it turns out, through hilarious internal misunderstanding, I was genuinely round that blokes house for real that Saturday night and proceeded to nick his entire house.

Digi did warn, in fairness.

i'm just putting in deliberately shit letters to see if they get in. My previous shit-me-letter was: If I print a sensible letter will you reply with a sensible answer? and it got printed. I just sent in 'I was going to send a letter in but I forgot what it was about. Shame.' It should be shown by tomorrow. *Rubs hands*

We like the short ones. They fill up awkward page space.

If anyone's interested, the max size for a letter is about 80 words, fewer if you want a reply. We've had quite a few good ones that were just way too big to use.

Yeah over the years I've learned the hard way that letters must be snappy little affairs.


giant_frying_pan

I got a letter 'published' on the last ever teletext letters page, announcing I was going to kill myself.

Obviously that didn't quite work out.

It's mostly a Usenet thing, when I've seen it.

How can I work under such conditions. It's ridiculous! :P

Ahahaha, bet you feel silly now, Mr. 80 words. I disregarded the rules, and (some of) my letter went up anyway! Incidentally, I do feel my letter this morning seemed harsher than I remember. I'm not saying you hacked it up, or anything, just maybe wanting to take back some of the criticalness of it. I wonder if Digi just seemed as bitter as it did to me because I had just read three weeks worth in one go, and the running theme made it stand out to me even more. What did others think?

It's that time again!

(Time to sing all the adverbs ending in "gly"? - Wakko.)

(Time to make fun of ("Mavis Fig-Newton" - Ed)? - Dot.)

No - time for THE WHEEL OF CORRESPONDENCE.

Wheel of Correspondence, turn turn turn. Tell us the lesson we must learn.

Number - 4!

"Bully the readers into sending more letters to digi_letters@falsebit.digiworld.tv. Suggest possible subjects they might address if they're too drunk to think of any themselves, such as: is going pay-only the stupidest idea ever? Are there any other guest columnists they might like to see, so when you approach them and say, 'Fancy writing a guest column? We can pay you 2p,' the potential guest columnist can say, 'A-ha, but I happen to know I'm incredibly popular among the Digiworld readership. Therefore I demand 8p.' Does anyone read the Back Pages? Does anyone in the world ever like News at all? Why don't you draw a reveal of Godzilla squeezing into a phone-box for charity? Where's my blue pen? Oh, here it is."

Well. Surprising how much writing they can fit on these tiny cards.

(Kinda gets you right there, like indigestion - Wakko.)

(I'm lost for words, so maybe these expressive gestures will do instead - Dot.)

Goodnight everybody!

YIPE!

(EXEUNT PURSUED BY A BEAR) ("NO BEAR").

JN.

After reading that message I'm not sure who's more confused - Nash or me.

Is that you, bear
By the stair?
Who cares?

Well I do, obv.

Signed
Billy

i always presumed "falsebit" referred to the "false cash" thing
looks like i'm wrong

no change there then

Right, just for that, I'm going to use up the only worthwhile thing I had to say in this post. Which is this: um.... oh.

On a lighter note, Nash, I read the news AND the back page. So there. In fact I read all of Digital Gaming World Co. Ltd ®©™, due to having sacrificed my favorite flicking coin in paying for it.

In conclusion then: I'm great, and you're all not.

>>>my favorite flicking coin in paying for it

I have a £5 novelty coin that makes a funny noise when you flick it.


giant_frying_pan

I've got something that makes a funny noise when you flick it.

It's a cat I keep in a shoebox.

so where do...

no, sorry.

Where do you keep your shoes?


giant_frying_pan

In my hatbox!