Rolling out the new features

So I figure I'll check out the most emailed story and most emailed photo on Yahoo and draw comparisons.

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Most emailed AND most popular story 11.17.06
Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Expected This Weekend
SPACE.com Tue Nov 14, 3:15 PM ET

The annual Leonid meteor shower could produce a strong outburst this weekend for residents of the North America and Western Europe.

Most emailed picture 11.17.06
Brazilian student Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, holds her cat Mimi together with what Cassia claims are Mimi's own offsprings born with dog traits last Friday, three months after mating with a neighbour's dog, in the southern Brazilian city of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul state, November 15, 2006...the puppies are part of Mimi's litter of six, of which the three that were born with cat features died soon after birth, leaving the surviving three dog-like offsprings.

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Observation - The metor shower is a sign of the end of the world. Lakes will run red with blood, it will snow in the desert and the great birth of the Cat Dog will begin their reign of tyranny over the humans.
I for one welcome our new Cat Dog leaders! Meow Ruff to you my friend!

side note - this is just like that Demi Moore movie, minus the Cat Dogs

actual nickname claimed to be unprintable

Courtesy of the wiki...Georgey's nicknames. I like the staff section the best.

If I ever refer to a country's leader as Pootie Poot, slap me.

"Altoid boy! Boy Genius! Get in here ASAP. Pootie Poot just called and said that Brownie and The Blade are missing! Get The Cobra and the Big and Little Stretch on the horn, we need to get this to the papers immediately."
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Self

• Dubya, 43

Family

• Poppy, 41, Old Man - George H. W. Bush [2]
• Bushie - Laura Bush (this is a mutual nickname) [3]

Foreign leaders

• Pootie-Poot - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia [4]
• Landslide - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [5]
• Dino (short for Dinosaur) - Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada [6]
• Bandar Bush - Bandar bin Sultan, ambassador to the United States from Saudi Arabia [7]
• Steve - Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada [8]

Staff

• Altoid Boy - Special Assistant Israel Hernandez (for his role as provider of breath mints to the President on the campaign trail)[9]
• Boy Genius (positive), Turd Blossom (negative) - Senior Advisor Karl Rove [10]
• The World's Greatest Hero (positive and negative) - Secretary of State Colin Powell [11]
• Guru - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
• Big O (current), Pablo (former) - Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill [12]
• Ari-Bob - White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer [13]
• High Prophet, Hurricane Karen - Karen Hughes, Special Advisor; Director of Communications under Texas Governor George W. Bush [14]
• The Blade - Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels[15]
• Big Country - Director of FEMA Joe Allbaugh[16]
• Brownie - Director of FEMA Michael D. Brown[17]
• Tree Man - Unnamed forest service official [18]
• Chuckles - Capt. Charles Higgins, Director of Public Health, National Park Service

Politicians

• Pablo - Paul Wellstone, Democratic Senator, Minnesota [19]
• Big George - George Miller, Democratic Congressman, California [20]
• Freddy Boy - Fred Upton, Republican Congressman, Michigan [21]
• Congressman Kickass - John Sweeney, Republican Congressman, New York [22]
• Speak - Dennis Hastert, Republican Congressman from Illinois and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives [23]
• Big O - Olympia Snowe, Republican Senator, Maine [24]
• Nellie (former), Benney (former), Benator (current) - Ben Nelson, Democratic Senator, Nebraska [25] (Daily Show, 02/28/05)
• Ellis - Chuck Schumer, Democratic Senator, New York[26]
• Bama, Rock - Barack Obama, Democratic Senator, Illinois [27]

Journalists

• The Cobra - Maureen Dowd [28]
• Stretch/Little Stretch - David Gregory, NBC [29][30][31]
• Stretch - Dick Keil, Bloomberg News [32]
• Super Stretch - Bill Sammon, Washington Times [33]
• Factor (current), Big O (former) - Bill O'Reilly
• (actual nickname claimed to be unprintable) - Dana Milbank of the Washington Post

Others

• Kenny Boy - Kenneth Lay [34]
• Weadie, Weadnik - author Doug Wead [35]

Someone loves the G, finally

Unfortunately, the love was removed 2 hous later.

Breakin' 2006 - bad translations

You are not equal to other dancers.
You are the baddest.

Fool, 75% of all insane dope breakers can throw it down on MTA subway stairs and don't forget to bring your posse (pictured is sunglass with newpaper homey aka Electro Rock 1 AKA Boogaloo Crawfish).

RE: Use of the "Reply to All" feature

Some of you may not be aware of this but there is a feature in your email program, in ALL email programs. That feature is named "REPLY TO ALL". This feature is available in all email programs as well as all web based email programs (yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc…). This is usually NOT the default action when replying to an email. There is always the option to just REPLY TO RECIPIENT.

So you might ask yourself, when should I take the extra time and push that pretty Reply to All button? You would only want to use this feature to communicate with everyone in the group. Let’s try out some examples…

Good uses of Reply to All
“I have a car, who wants a ride to ”
“Let’s all meet at this time”
“UNSUBSCRIBE”

Bad Uses of Reply to All
“Sounds awesome”
Yes I’m sure the event does sound awesome, I can make that assessment on my own.

“What time does that start?”
You obviously have the internet. You can look up the website just as easy as any one of us. Get off your ass. If you do happen to get that information that MIGHT be ok to let everyone know when it starts. Asking the entire group is a dick move.

“I like wine”
Um. This one is pretty obvious. And yes I have received it before.

“Kewl”
Shut up

“stop hitting reply to all”
One of my favorites. You hate the Reply to All but instead of just sending your condemnation to the offender(s) you send it to all of us. You have become what you hate.

“hahahaha” "heh" "lol" etc...
That is great that you thought the email was funny. And instead of telling the person who send it that you thought it was funny, you send it to all of us. And thank you sooo much for typing all 3 letters to convey that sentiment, jackass.

Feel free to add your favorites, I'm sure this list will grow