Listen, I recently registered the domain pooppoop.net. Go ahead and click the hyperlink … you’ll just come right back here. There is a good reason for this and the reason is not that I can’t stop thinking about poop. It isn’t. Okay? Okay. Now that I’ve convinced you that I’m not fixated on feces let me provide some counter evidence.
In one of my Institute classes the teacher was collecting names and email addresses on a little piece of paper and I thought that it would be funny to put my real name and a fake email address. Specifically “brotherknowles”, the teacher of the class, followed by “pooppoop.net”. This caused me much merriment. Later while eating with my friend Cassie I told her that Chinese food is the worst. So bad, in fact, that you can email it using the address “chinesefood” at the aforementioned domain. This idea struck me as so hilarious that I went on to spend twenty-seven dollars in order to make my fantasy a reality (another reason why being an adult is absolutely awesome).
Here we see: no regrets.
Anyway, part of the process of setting up email addresses included me specifying that any email not specified at poopoop.net should be forwarded to my real email address. This is great because it gives me the opportunity to create awesome and seemingly fake email addresses on the fly. For example, “ineedto”, “heathermarie”, “ohmanitwasntjustafartitwasactually”, “grapewho”, and cetera.
The flip side is that some people have already keyed in to the hilariousness of the domain and have subsequently been using it for making up fake email addresses. I received setup information for RuneScape about a week ago and today I got two emails requesting that I reset the PlayStation Network password for a dude named Paul Simpson. What are these people doing registering email addresses that they do not in fact own? Now how is he ever going to change his password? Through the phone? That might be awkward since I’ve already changed it to “whymustipooppoopmypantswhenigetexcitedohnohereitcomesagain”.
(Please note: that password is also a legitimate email address when properly prepended to pooppoop.net. Life, my friends, is good.)
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