| AUCKLAND - Hugh Rixon, writer of classic retrospective e-mails, announced his retirement this week, shocking the worldwide office-worker community.
Rixon is famous for his "You Know You're a Product of..." series, which he adapted with skill and precision to every demographic possible. He had a cult following of approximately 7.6 million readers, each of whom would spend about 40 minutes a month digesting his mails and blindly forwarding them to their entire mailbox. "The mails began one day when I was working in London," Rixon told reporters. "I was in this stupid boring job in an investment bank manning phones that never rang when I began thinking about everything I had done as a kid, breakdancing, playing swing-ball. I jotted it all down and the rest is history." When asked if he had ever been stuck for ideas, Rixon replied in the negative. "Although sometimes I have to rethink the validity of some of them like the "You Know You're a Product of Stalinist Genocide" one because it only consisted of two points: 1. You were shipped to Siberia and 2. You were gunned down in front of your family in the middle of the night. But you know I can usually knock one out about anything." Reaction from office workers around the globe has been largely melancholic. "How are future generations going to daydream and reflect on the past in our otherwise boring and meaningless existence's?" asked one office worker, not wishing to be identified, "I guess we'll just have to struggle through those damned Darwin Award things, until the next "yours was yum" styled mishap comes along."  |
| Retro email writer retires |
Friday, 01 February 2002 12:00
