Here's a curious email I just received:
Hallo! My name is Wojciech Krajewski. I come from Poland. I'm collecting museum entry tickets. I would be very happy if I have got in my collection ticket from Yours. I hope that my favour won't be a problem for You and that you won't leave it without answer. I give my regards to you and thank you very much.
I'd really like to help this guy out. But what should I send him?
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Maybe you could comment to him here; then he could print it for his keepsake.
maybe you could mock one up in photoshop and e-mail it to him?
i could make some for you if you wanted.
I work for a letterpress printing shop (old presses which usually today are only used for 'crash numbering' tickets; but we print fancy wedding invitations on them)
Museum of Hoaxes tickets would be great.
(Or just tell him that you use jackalopes for tickets?) 😉
What you might do though is have some professionally printed up: http://www.admitoneproducts.com/Roll+Tickets/Custom+Online+Roll+Tickets
That'd be nifty, you could include one in copies of future books you publish, and sell them online (with a t-shirt or something).
"I think he meant I Waffle (pronoun, not number), not one waffle."
Hmm, maybe he meant "I, Waffle" (see Asimov). Of course, Alan Parsons would get in on that:
Or, maybe he meant a future Mac peripheral.. the iWAFFLE. A firewire waffle iron?
I thought the Museum of Hoaxes only used retinal scanners now.
If you collect tickets to museums, wouldn't the point be to collect tickets to museums that you've actually been to? It's no fun collecting these if you haven't seen it! Like people who collect golf balls, they only collect them for courses that they've actually played. Then again, I guess he has "been" to the Museum of Hoaxes, so perhaps my point is moot.
You're giving the old saying "You've got to get out more" a whole new poignance.