Originally posted February 23, 2006
My wildly popular Yale Daily News column was already a campus sensation, but the Torino column set new standards of popularity, even for me. The follow-up isn't as good, but I tried to draw some conclusions from the whole crazy experience. Enjoy, or if you're like the Yale alumna who works in Torino and didn't get it, than don't. Text of her hilarious email follows (name and email have been withheld to protect the guilty:
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:46:31 +0100
From: ****** Anna <***********************>
Reply-To: ****** Anna <***********************>
Subject: nick baumann an embarassment for yale
To: ydn@yale.edu
dear editor, i am a Yale alumna class '83, now the web editor of the Italian (Torino based) daily newspaper La Stampa (www.lastampa.it). The offensive, arrogant and inaccurate article "Getting by in good ol' Torino" by Nick Baumann (link) is embarassing for Yale standards. I won't get into all the specifics, but for example bragging about being a lazy stupid American as an excuse for not being able to communicate in a foreign country is nothing to be proud of. And the reason the Olympic sites don't accept American Express is that VISA is the main sponsor...if he doesn't know this, he's a bad reporter...I could go on forever.
I invite you to read our special in English about the Olympics here: (link)
Sincerely
Anna ******
Doesn't get much better than that. God that makes me feel good. Especially since my article is pretty clearly making fun of VISA for their stupid marketing strategy at the Olympics - how could she think I didn't know they weren't the main sponsor? Anyone who watches television could tell you that (and also that "Life takes Visa"). But seriously - do people just not get it sometimes? Geez.
