Wealth BlogBrickbats and Bouquets

This column receives various email responses, mostly from fans, but some which are just bizarre.

Once recently started: “Listen Fenton. I read that piece of c**p you wrote in the Post on 24 Dec.”(An inoffensive piece about David Tang’s new venture,Tang Tang Tang.)

He continued: “Rarely have I read a bigger load of s**t in my life. Are you seriously telling us educated, civilized human beings that we need to read the drivel, the unadulterated dross that you spout? I hope that you have the most awful Christmas ever.”

More fun was the recent missive from Knut Wüstenhöferr, headed: “My Fax to Mr. Cecil Chao Sze-tsung: Concerning my will to merry his attractive daughter Gigi.”  He wished to claim the much-publicised HK$500 million offered by property magnate Cecil Chao for a husband for his lesbian daughter Gigi.

“Honoured Mrs Fenton!” he began. “On Thursday I sent Mr. Chao a fax, expressing my will to marry his daughter, and also to introduce myself, so that Mr. Chao knows a little bit from me: I am German, to this time still in Switzerland. I am a scripter.”