We were enjoying Banya’s letters over a few beers one night and thought it would be wise to explain to Banya how, in North America, we have “crazy cat ladies” that drive their cats around, put them on leashes, give them huggles 24/7, and best of all, write letters for their cats behalf.
Banya thought this was a brilliant idea and immediately picked up the pen.
No response from catfood people :(
Our Friend Banya is upset again! This time it’s not so much a complaint but a letter of praise. As praisey as a broken-English Czech letter can get, anyway.
(After nearly two months, no response from Sleeman’s Beer Man on this one. Pity. I did, however, find out that Granville Island Brewery has a Maple Ale that is quite tasty!)
Remember My Spazzy Foreigner? When she came to my house (visiting from Czech) she brought along a friend of hers named Banya. Banya was a great amusement to us as his English was quite poor.
This on its own isn’t exactly hilarious, but when it intersects with his love for writing hand-written letters of complaints to corporations, well… Let’s take a look at the first of many.
Louis Weber is CEO of a company called Publications International, a US firm that publishes a cookbook I happen to have on my shelf that contains naught but manly BBQ recipes. The construction of the book was quite shoddy and Banya wasn’t too happy about it:
Addendum: The response to this letter? An anonymous box, no letter attached, delivered by courier. Contained a new copy of the book. Booooooo.
(anyone want a book?)
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Woah, it’s 9/11! Time to drop DA BOMB!!! Yeah, that’s right, let’s offer up a new edition of My Hippy Roommate!!!1
Last time we saw My Hippy Roommate, she was skipping along with her Foreigner and before that she was serving us up some fancy pies. After being subjected to several of my comics (including ones only published on my refridgerator door) we had this nice conversation… BEHOLD:
on November 14th, 2007 at 5:38 pm #
Off topic here, but I can’t seem to find a way to contact Weasel ;) What is the WordPress plug-in you use to show comments here on the main page underneath the posts? It didn’t seem to be in your “WordPress Plugins We Use” list…
on November 14th, 2007 at 7:45 pm #
*chuckles* I do have an email address in the footer of the page. But I put the comments in as a custom edit to the wordpress theme files… If you think you can handle HTML editing drop me a line and I’ll give you some pointers.