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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy
"Letters From a Nut" by Ted L Nancy.
I basically had to stop reading it on the airplane because my stomach was hurting so bad from laughing. I was finding new ways to embarrass my wife as I laughed my way out loud through the book. I even had tears coming down.
Ted L Nancy is a fictitious author who has published a few things.
The book is a compendium of actual letters Ted has written to businesses, hotels, restaurants, Fortune 500 companies, etc....the letters are ridiculous, sometimes incoherent, and complete nonsense.....the humor is in the actual responses he gets from these companies.
It is one of the funniest books I have read in a long time.
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After reading letters from a nut I sent wanted to see if people would take letters like that seriously.
I wrote a letter to the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, that said my friend and I had just returned from a weekend of gambling and relaxing at their fine establishment. However on our return flight home we decided that we needed to make one more bet, just to round out the trip. So we bet $1000 between ourselves as to which one of us could pick the color closest to black out of a box of Crayola 64 crayons.
I then added a lengthy paragraph about how I had been credited with being very smart at colors from an early age, and using this color knowledge I picked out brown. And declared myself the winner. My friend picked navy blue and declared himself the winner. I then said that I was sending this letter to the Casino Manager to decide our wager and we both agreed to take their decision as binding.
I got back a letter from the MGM Casino manager that went into great detail about how she had decided our bet. It included a story about how she would often attempt to get dressed in the dark in the early morning hours so as to not wake her husband. She had three pairs of identical shoes in black, brown and navy. On these dark mornings when she was hoping to get black shoes but picked wrong she always ended up wearing blue shoes. She concluded the letter by saying that she had no idea if my letter was serious or not but it was the most interesting she had ever received.