Tsunami Overdrive

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Thanks to Noel for sending me the following. Noel is too busy moving house at the moment to maintain his own blog, plus the fact that he's on the other side of the World means that we're both awake at the same time. I've changed the name of the company and the sender's first name. Aside from that, this email is as received by Mr Noel at work. It is from a US-based company and was not intended as a joke ...
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2005 XYY Client Survey
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Dear XYY Client,
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Happy New Year! We start off each new year by inviting all of you to give us direct feedback on how your market research needs are developing ...
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... This year we will be making a contribution to the American Red Cross for the victims of the tsunami for each completed survey.Thank you in advance for your time and feedback.
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Best regards,
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Biffo Wang
Senior Vice President, Strategy
XYY
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Yes! Yes! 'Return our customer survey and save a little brown person!'. What next? 'Complete the following sentence in no more than 10 words and win a tsunami early warning system for the 3rd World country of your choice!', 'Enter our prize draw and win some lucky African a year's supply of AIDS vaccine!'?
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I'm so touched by emotion I think I might cry. Lots.
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Synchronicity fans will also note that someone has forwarded me an email written by a person called Wang only a few days after I wrote a blog extolling the virtues of that very same name.
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