Brickbats 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.)
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.”
He explained he was a writer of political poems, non fiction and criminal stories. He had already faxed “Mr. Chao's firm: The Cheuk Nang Holdings,” but didn’t know if it had been received. He would “fastest like to step in email contact with Mr.Chao.” Could I help?
Since October 2012, he had lost 20kg and wanted to shed a further 25kg, “so that at the end of loosing my weight I arrive at 70kg.""Please tell Mr.Chao this, because for sure he will want a best figured son-in-law!” I will endeavour to oblige.
