I'm pretty out there with my e-mail
address. I hand it out everywhere. Genuinely, it's really the best way to get
hold of me. I'm intensely forgettable when it comes to texting and with
facebook I just get distracted by the option of poking someone. LOL.
E-mail, you know what you're doing, it's down the line, no problem.
I think the main reason I'm so happy to hand out my e-mail is because it's literally my initals and my surname. No slashes, no semi colons, no 87's none of that malarky. But it wasn't always like this. Sadly not.
Before I begin my story, I would just like to extend a huge thank you to the other contributors to this post. I put out a request on faceache for first e-mail addresses under the condition that all names would be kept anonymous and I'll only ever mock them over the internet. What a response! People I haven't spoken to in years, frankly who I thought had culled me long ago for my inane blog posts sent me messages detailing their humiliation. If I was accepting an Oscar for this, let's face it I'd say your names and publicly humiliate you so thank god I'm not, but in all seriousness, thanks. And thanks especially for being equally moronic teenagers as I clearly was.
So I'm going to put it out there first and tell you all about me. If anyone has read my blog before or indeed, met me, you'll know (hopefully) that I am literally the least "groovy" person possibly ever. I wear dinosaur t-shirts, I make compulsively shit puns and frankly have a borderline unhealthy obsession with Fleetwood Mac. I also detest the word 'babe'. I've been known to physically recoil when it has been said in my general direction.
There is therefore, genuinely no possible explanation as to why my first e-mail address was:groovebabe123@hotmail.com
Yep. True story. What amuses me especially about this is the lack of "y". I was no Groovy Babe. No. I was a Groove babe. A babe that grooves. Whatever the fuck that be. I actually quite vividly recall creating this e-mail account up. I had wanted, obviously, groovybabe123, that was the dream, but alas, some other half witted moron had already claimed it. So, I settled naturally. I also remember having the slightest suspicion, a vague lurking sense, that this was possibly a stupid e-mail address and that I might regret it. But being caught up in the excitement of having my first ever e-mail address, and of being a "groove babe" no doubt, I put it to the back of my mind.
I lasted about a day before my feeling of deep and intense regret was cemented for good and this memory was tattooed onto the "you twat" part of my brain, and for that, I have to thank my Dad. Somehow, he managed to get wind of my new, glorious e-mail. I will never, ever, forget that moment when my mum handed the phone over to him to speak and he, with the enthusiasm which only a truly loving parent can ever muster, greeted me loudly with
"IS THAT GROOVE BABE ONE TWO THREE???"
That was the moment. Right then, when I thought to myself: Error.
I deactivated my account about two days later.
12 years later, and I can finally share my humiliation. And frankly, what THRILLS me is to find out that I am not alone! These are some of the other gems which similarly confused and misguided 12 and 13 year olds were also using. 2001 was a golden age for this. So here goes...
madmadmonkey@hotmail.com - pretty standard.
quoth_the_raven@hotmail.com - PFFFFFFFFFFFT
monkey_in_a_neglige@hotmail.co.uk - Worrying. Frankly.
optimismisforthethick@hotmail.com - Teenage angst in an e-mail address. Impressive
.
shaggershane69 - apparently Shagger Shane got into Nottingham university, something to put on your UCAS form certainly - my teachers always told me it was important to stand out on your UCAS form. Evidently we could all have learnt something from Shagger Shane and his impressive use of an alliteration.
squashedhedgehog@yahoo.com - Not roadkill87?
djduckling@hotmail.com - Ministry of sound watch out. Genuinely, do.
Baywatchbabe87@hotmail.com - Somewhere out there has to be a Hoff version of this.
way2cool@hotmail.com - Speaks for itself doesn't it?
I would like to end on my two personal favourites out of what is frankly, a pretty impressive collection. The first, I can offer no comment apart from SURELY YOU WOULD JUST PRESUME THIS IS A SPAM. Really, if I was to get an e-mail from pinksausagecloud@hotmail.com, I'd probably shut down my computer and put it under the bed out of fear for the sort of virus an address like that looks like it comes with.
E-mail, you know what you're doing, it's down the line, no problem.
I think the main reason I'm so happy to hand out my e-mail is because it's literally my initals and my surname. No slashes, no semi colons, no 87's none of that malarky. But it wasn't always like this. Sadly not.
Before I begin my story, I would just like to extend a huge thank you to the other contributors to this post. I put out a request on faceache for first e-mail addresses under the condition that all names would be kept anonymous and I'll only ever mock them over the internet. What a response! People I haven't spoken to in years, frankly who I thought had culled me long ago for my inane blog posts sent me messages detailing their humiliation. If I was accepting an Oscar for this, let's face it I'd say your names and publicly humiliate you so thank god I'm not, but in all seriousness, thanks. And thanks especially for being equally moronic teenagers as I clearly was.
So I'm going to put it out there first and tell you all about me. If anyone has read my blog before or indeed, met me, you'll know (hopefully) that I am literally the least "groovy" person possibly ever. I wear dinosaur t-shirts, I make compulsively shit puns and frankly have a borderline unhealthy obsession with Fleetwood Mac. I also detest the word 'babe'. I've been known to physically recoil when it has been said in my general direction.
There is therefore, genuinely no possible explanation as to why my first e-mail address was:groovebabe123@hotmail.com
Yep. True story. What amuses me especially about this is the lack of "y". I was no Groovy Babe. No. I was a Groove babe. A babe that grooves. Whatever the fuck that be. I actually quite vividly recall creating this e-mail account up. I had wanted, obviously, groovybabe123, that was the dream, but alas, some other half witted moron had already claimed it. So, I settled naturally. I also remember having the slightest suspicion, a vague lurking sense, that this was possibly a stupid e-mail address and that I might regret it. But being caught up in the excitement of having my first ever e-mail address, and of being a "groove babe" no doubt, I put it to the back of my mind.
I lasted about a day before my feeling of deep and intense regret was cemented for good and this memory was tattooed onto the "you twat" part of my brain, and for that, I have to thank my Dad. Somehow, he managed to get wind of my new, glorious e-mail. I will never, ever, forget that moment when my mum handed the phone over to him to speak and he, with the enthusiasm which only a truly loving parent can ever muster, greeted me loudly with
"IS THAT GROOVE BABE ONE TWO THREE???"
That was the moment. Right then, when I thought to myself: Error.
I deactivated my account about two days later.
12 years later, and I can finally share my humiliation. And frankly, what THRILLS me is to find out that I am not alone! These are some of the other gems which similarly confused and misguided 12 and 13 year olds were also using. 2001 was a golden age for this. So here goes...
madmadmonkey@hotmail.com - pretty standard.
quoth_the_raven@hotmail.com - PFFFFFFFFFFFT
monkey_in_a_neglige@hotmail.co.uk - Worrying. Frankly.
optimismisforthethick@hotmail.com - Teenage angst in an e-mail address. Impressive
.
shaggershane69 - apparently Shagger Shane got into Nottingham university, something to put on your UCAS form certainly - my teachers always told me it was important to stand out on your UCAS form. Evidently we could all have learnt something from Shagger Shane and his impressive use of an alliteration.
squashedhedgehog@yahoo.com - Not roadkill87?
djduckling@hotmail.com - Ministry of sound watch out. Genuinely, do.
Baywatchbabe87@hotmail.com - Somewhere out there has to be a Hoff version of this.
way2cool@hotmail.com - Speaks for itself doesn't it?
I would like to end on my two personal favourites out of what is frankly, a pretty impressive collection. The first, I can offer no comment apart from SURELY YOU WOULD JUST PRESUME THIS IS A SPAM. Really, if I was to get an e-mail from pinksausagecloud@hotmail.com, I'd probably shut down my computer and put it under the bed out of fear for the sort of virus an address like that looks like it comes with.
And finally, I would
actually like to dedicate this blog, to a long suffering friend who has put up
with my almost continuous hysterical laughter ever since in a moment of sheer
confidentiality they confessed their address. I didn't keep my promise to only
mock over the internet, I just couldn't hold it in.
sexyvegetable123@hotmail.com...this is for you.
Signing off,
groovebabe123@hotmail.com
