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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 08:46pm on 21/11/2008
I got an e-mail today with the subject: "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"

Gmail cleverly recognises this day reference, and asks

Would you like to...
Add to calendar
and and
Sat Nov 22, 2008


♥ Google!
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posted by [identity profile] nallac.livejournal.com at 09:33pm on 21/11/2008
You do realise this means that I'm going to be trying to come up with even odder subjects that get gmail confused.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:45pm on 21/11/2008
Midnight train to Georgia?
Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday?
 
posted by [identity profile] addedentry.livejournal.com at 10:42pm on 21/11/2008
Google Calendar caused confusion when Happy Mondays played Oxford. "Recurring event?"
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posted by [personal profile] erik at 09:46pm on 21/11/2008
But were the ads for Shakespeare-related things?
 
posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 09:56pm on 21/11/2008
Or Dresden Dolls CDs? (They use the line too)
 
posted by [identity profile] techiebabe.livejournal.com at 10:54pm on 21/11/2008
And, while we had to learn the "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy by heart at school, so I'm kind of fond of it now, I do think Dresden Dolls are much cooler. I hope Bridget's mail related to them.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:13pm on 21/11/2008
If my iPod were charged I would go listen to them right now. Actually, MySpace!
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:08pm on 21/11/2008
*checks* No ads! Just the calendar suggestion. So, I can suppress ads so long as all my emails are about calendar items?
My first association with the phrase was a Dresden Dolls song. Should perhaps read more Shakespeare.
 
posted by [identity profile] techiebabe.livejournal.com at 10:59pm on 21/11/2008
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing."

But I preferred this one (another one we had to learn by heart for GCSE English):

"Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it. He that's coming
Must be provided for; and you shall put
This night's great business into my dispatch,
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom."

Or rather "Leave all the murdering to me, and don't worry about a thing honey."
 
posted by [identity profile] robthefish.livejournal.com at 10:04pm on 21/11/2008
...that got me searching for "Sleaze Castle" and "Surreal School Stories" comics by Terry Wiley. Found a sort of interesting archive:
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/2008/01/30/surreal-school-stories-1/

As always, there was a reason, but that isn't really very important.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:09pm on 21/11/2008
Ooh, I remember them! They were great, but I always missed a couple so the stories were even less linear.
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posted by [personal profile] redbird at 02:40am on 22/11/2008
Not so much artificial stupidity as artificial surrealism.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:21am on 22/11/2008
Watching how someone's brain works is often just as interesting, if not more so, than seeing what their conclusions are. There, I'm thinking of Gmail as a person, aren't I.
 
posted by [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com at 09:16am on 22/11/2008
I have been pissed off for ages that GMail couldnt do this - and now you tell me it can! How?
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:22am on 22/11/2008
I've sent you calendar-triggering email. Open the message, you may see the calendar suggestion on the right?

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