EXERCISE: In My Magic Mirror, I See...

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:39:09 -0500

At 10:13 PM 12/17/2002 -0600, A. J. wrote:

However, on line, we can't see what you are wearing.  (I thank god no one can see what I am wearing.)

Aha!  You obviously don't have the Windows Magic Add-On Package, which allows you to see those scurvy skivvies your online correspondents are wearing, those tattered bathrobes, oh, my goodness, is it that hot in Australia or did she just come in from the dances?  Turn any monitor into a window on the world!  Only $19.95 a month through this special one-time offer (we'll let you know if you ever catch up with the payments, but don't plan on it).

Anyway, for a small investment in imagination and finger-dancing, go ahead and write up something about the "man behind the curtain".  Tell us something about the fake flowers fluttering beside the flatscreen monitor, the dusty piles of papers untouched since they were carefully sorted in place, and the other wonders of your workplace.  Give us an insight into the character that sits there, grinding verbs and splintering adjectives on the rocky shores of the nouns.

Go ahead and show us what you're wearing.  Don't be ashamed, we're tough, we can handle the thongs and flipflops of outrageous online fashion.

And you thought on the internet no one would know you were a dog.