Wealth Blog | When readers write: (sic) thinking inside the inbox

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Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, chairman of developer Cheuk Nang Holdings. Photo: SCMP

Published: 12:00am, 18 Feb 2013Updated: 4:13am, 18 Feb 2013

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

One recently started: "Listen Fenton. I read that piece of crap 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*** in my life. Are you seriously telling us educated, civilised human beings that we need to read the drivel, the unadultered dross, that you spout? I hope that you have the most awful Christmas ever." This was signed Martin Heyes, tour guide, walkhongkong.com.

Depriving Mr Heyes of the oxygen of attention seemed advisable, so I ignored him. He wasn't happy. He wrote again. "What's the matter? Why haven't you answered my e-mail?"

More fun was the recent missive from Knut Wüstenhöferr, headed: (sic) "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 Thuesday I sent Mr Chao a fax, expressing my will to merry 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 Scriptor."

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