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I normally refrain from posting private emails, but this was just too amusing.

Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 23:19:51 -0700 (PDT) 
From: Random dude in Mongolia
Subject: Re:Hi 
To: mwang@CS.Stanford.EDU 


Dear pool monkey lesson to me carefully. I,m visit
your web site ( but it's very difficult to named veb
page) it's very bad pictures and very very pool
explanation and you trying to show mongolia from only
bad site. I hope may be you khow god don't like poeple
who like as you

I'm pretty sure I don't know him, from my previous visits to that country (although I did pass along his name to Tom to see if he knows him, or if he could even share the Gospel =) ). I was sort of surprised, because I certainly don't think that I'm disparaging Mongolia in any way in my site, certainly no more than I would for my "beloved" China, or the USA. Yes, not all the Mongolia pictures are of beautiful clean, lush cities filled with wealthy, happy, prosperous people, but then again, Mongolia doesn't have much of that to begin with.

I'm debating whether to ignore it, or write back a witty reply. Don't want to get into a flame war, or write anything inciteful, like "China 0wnZ j00! It's time to take you guys back!", but it made me more amused than anything, and I think I should return the favor somehow -- if only to capture the unintentional wit of the term "pool monkey".

Feel free to post your ideas. =)