Calling all mock-monkeys!

[lagilman]

I'm far too tired to do this the justice it deserves. So I hereby give it to you intact, unmocked, in all its sad, sad glory, and let you do it.



from craigslist:


Startup Company looking for a Freelance writer to write Bio,s and do PR stuff for company. This could develop in to a long term position for the write person.

We do not want Corporate uptight people, we are looking for open minded, funloving, professional people, that know how to have fun, while getting the job done.

Send your info to Simone Y

Comments

[kradical.livejournal.com]

Down with Corporate Uptight People!!!!!!

[jaylake.livejournal.com]

What about fun loving people that don't know how to have fun...?

Ok, back to cat-waxing, me.

[karentoe.livejournal.com]

Is a write person anything like a typed person?

[janni.livejournal.com]

Well, at least they realize they need a writer.

[necessaryspace.livejournal.com]

Apparently, they are also looking for people who have a great love of commas. ;)

[bill-leisner.livejournal.com]

I assume "open minded" means "not hung up on 'correct' punctuation and spelling".

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

This boring corporate person (who can write and understands commas) wonders if they have any money to pay the fun-loving person.

[eeknight.livejournal.com]

Anything I end up doing in mockery would be but a pale pastiche of the original. It mocks itself; I wouldn't touch that karma with a ten foot bode tree.

[lagilman]

It's still not as amusing as the person offering a (small) bounty for an introduction to someone, anyone in children's publishing. I've warned sdn that if he raises it higher, she may be in danger....

(the terrible thing is that the person posting it seems to have no idea how offensive his/her post is, or why the board-monitors keep pulling it. Dude. beyond everything else, you're being tacky!)

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

I really like the ad entitled "Seeking Publisher" or something like that.

It was put up by an self described "new, young, up-coming and promissing novelist" (I guess the extra 's' in promising is for 'special') who says that the publisher should have "an decent background in the world
of Publishing" (a world I've always thought of in capital letters as it happens but I think a brief lesson in a vs. an might be in order)) and should "hold a vast knowledge in the world of litterature" (hold it in what? And why can't this hot you writer spell? Or speak? Or write?)

Lastly, young Hemingway states "Am willing to pay an decent percentage of what the book makes in sales, if published." (Graciousness personified, no?)

Seriously I am sooooo tempted to send an email but it would just bruise the young thing and waste valuable typing time I could spend writing LJ entries

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Clearly they need someone.

Ask for the first week up front in an escrow... .