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Founder lore and the Glynn letter

quote

MESSAGE: guys, get a load. my def. of a bad day. […] here’s just the first page, get a load: […] Dear Sir: I am writing in response to your request for additional information. In block #3 of the accident reporting form, I put “trying to do the job alone”, as the cause of my accident. You said in your letter that I should explain more fully and I trust that the following details will be sufficient.

Context

The State Farm adjuster's e-mail frame ("guys, get a load") collides head-on with bricklayer Dwayne (Doony) Glynn's letter, written at a blood-alcohol of .3+ in flawless insurance-formal — "I trust that the following details will be sufficient" — right before narrating two collisions with a barrel of bricks. Register as comedy engine: the drunker document is the hyper-correct one, and the professional's is the slangy mess. (The comma outside the closing quotation mark is print's own, confirmed against the physical copy.)

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