"Out of Office..."

When spamming publishers, developers and other industry types my e-mail account is usually rammed with "Out of Office" replies. None of them are ever funny.

Someone should do a funny "OoO" reply one day. It'd be great. Sometimes they tell me they have some blackberries and will be checking their e-mail on those, which sounds pretty impressive for fruit, but it's mostly pretty dull stuff like: "I'm Out of the Office until June 11th and will not be answering any calls".

On other occasions, it states that they'll be back in the office at the point I'm actually e-mailing them, which normally means they've left their Auto-Reply on, switched on their answer phone and may well be chatting up one of the many fit PR girls that inhabit the world or just playing Mine Sweeper.

I'm not that cool.

My "OoO" reply would read: I'm currently out of my bedroom and won't be answering my e-mails until I get back from work at Tesco and have had my dinner."

Slick Mike, slick.