Comments for the Squad
// August 30th, 2008 // Comments Off // Humor
Over on TV Squad, we get a lot of comments. I’m not talking about those made on posts so much, but via the ‘Comments’, ‘Tips’ and — God forbid — ‘Corrections’ links at the top of ever page. The forms for Tips get processed and sent to the entire team to mull over, post about or just make fun of. As for any of the other links, they all go to ME. Just me.
Most of the messages we get through these forms are people asking — clearly to the wrong people — how to get on X show, that they want X celebrity to know how much they love them, or that they need to sign X up for X show so they can get back at them for X. This is endless entertainment for me and — when I send the choice ones to them — for the team as well.
Back several years ago, the now-late Adam Finley decided we’d had enough of the emails asking us how to contact so many X people and X shows that we had to make an FAQ page for visitors that told them, once and for all, that we had nothing to do with getting in touch with these people. Of course, that page page made no difference at all and only fueled their persistence.
Here’s a sample of one recent email we got from the form that I’ll share with you. Maybe I’ll make it a regular feature here — who knows This one from last week isn’t one of the better ones, but this woman is definitely in the wrong place to look for help from ‘This Old (and I mean OLD) House’ …
To whom it concerns; I live in a old log home, dating back to Mid 1700′s, I have been working on this old house and it feels like I can’t get anywhere. I want to add on a addition to. I just am over whelmed with this house, My girlfriend and I are getting married next May 30, 2009. She gets frustrated with the house, and we are both not fighting but getting tired of trying to live normal. How can I get things back on track. I am very upset and don’t want to lose my house but to better it and be proud to live here again. Please help if you can and Please get back to me either way. Thank you for your time and take care.


