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Misspelling and snowballing calamity

As I own the domain pivic.com, I sometimes get e-mail sent to me, that should really be adressed to pivec.com, some sort of Toyota dealership in the US of A.

I'll post the entire thread here, names and companies have been changed to protect the guilty parties. It's all posted in chronological order, oldest->newest, up->down. The last e-mail is the real kicker.

to handerson@pivic.com date Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:32 PM subject TOYOTA FOR 7/1?

Hi Hillary- Is Md Toyota traffic available for 7/1? Thx, Terry Kleger Traffic WBOC-TV/EBOC-TV Salisbury, Md

...and I didn't have time to reply until this dropped along:

to handerson@pivic.com date Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:46 PM subject FW: TOYOTA FOR 7/1?

Hilary- Any word re Toyota for tomorrow. We're close to our log-print for tomorrow. Thx, X

So, I felt an urgent need to reply.

to X date Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:38 PM subject Re: FW: TOYOTA FOR 7/1?

Hey guys,

Niklas here for Hilary.

I'm wondering how things are going re. Toyota tomorrow. Here's a lead picture that you can run; it's called "Varg Vikernes i joggingdress":

Varg Vikernes i joggingdress

Sincerely,

Niklas

What!? No e-mail storm back at me? The following was the only thing I received:

date Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:45 PM subject RE: FW: TOYOTA FOR 7/1?

NIKLAS- Hilary's traffic for tomorrow has not come through on email or fax. Can you send it? We're past deadline for our log print.

X Traffic X-TV/Y-TV Salisbury

I had to reply in firmer terms, still. Damn you, corporate world!

date Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:47 PM subject Re: FW: TOYOTA FOR 7/1?

TERRY-

Here's her traffic, it's called "Johnny Marr som Tsar":

Johnny Marr som tsar

Niklas WTFLOL-TOYOTA/ZTV Stockholm

After this I received an e-mail first stating this, chronologically speaking:

From: X Sent: 2010-06-30 3:57 PM To: Y Subject: FW: FW: TOYOTA FOR 7/1?

From: Y To: Z Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 3:58:44 PM Subject: FW: FW: TOYOTA FOR 7/1?

We have an email problem; can you come here to help us?

...which was followed by this, in the same e-mail:

LMAO! Thanks for the laugh!!! I suppose you'd have to know the guy (X) to truly understand, but when I went down there to try to understand what he was telling me, and after clearly seeing the misspelling of the domain name, and your response, I just about lost it laughing!

Anyway, you made my day!

Z Director of Information Technology

Now, that's a thing of true magic.