From an email (thanks to valued commenter and tester M. Bouffant):
Hey everyone, WaterGirl here.
You are receiving this message if you volunteered to test the new website and supplied information about your devices, but never followed up by sending email to [address deleted]
I am starting to get our ducks in a row for whenever testing will start.
Please write back to [address deleted] — one way or another — to say that you’re in for testing or that you don’t want to be contacted about testing again.
Hope to hear from all of you one way or another, very soon!
Thanks, WaterGirl
Ohio Mom
Cheering you all on!
NotMax
So if we already e-mailed you in May and received a response confirming receipt of said e-mail we do or do not need to contact you again? What’s above is vague enough that it can be read either way.
Baud
@NotMax:
You need to email again in all caps.
Ruckus
@Baud:
I can see why your campaign keeps getting bogged down in the negative range. Not nice to play such hardcore tactics with the one that brought ya.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: I heard through satby that this post was up. Thanks to M. Bouffant and Cheryl!
If you have already sent me email about testing, you are all good. I’m just trying to reach the people who said they want to test but haven’t yet replied to my email.
M. Bouffant was apparently too polite to list the names I had sent, but here are the names of the peeps I am hoping to hear from:
Mike J
random monster
coin operated
(((CassandraLeo)))
RabbiosaFame
Larch
Mo
SC
It’s not too late, though, if you wanted to participate but hadn’t mentioned it yet!
WaterGirl
@Baud: Shush, you! Cole has the market cornered on ALL CAPS.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: Caps lock broken on Cole’s keyboard again?
satby
My neighbors must think I’m nuts. Sometimes I just read a thread and laugh and laugh. You all are awesome.
J R in WV
OK, I guess I’m in..
I sent an email too…
OK, I GUESS I’M IN. I SENT AN EMAIL TOO!!!!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@J R in WV:
Must be a West(by God) Virginia thing…
?BillinGlendaleCA
This thread needs a fake picture to spice it up.
NotMax
@Baud
Testing.
NOV SHMOZ KA POP?
NOTARY SOJAC!
J R in WV
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Nice fake pic. How did you fake the lighthouse?? ;-)
M. Bouffant
@NotMax: Smokey Stover. How old does that make me?
M. Bouffant
@WaterGirl: Ooh, sorry, yes I am polite, sometimes too much so, apparently.
And to receive the “valued common tater” designation has the ego even more swollen. Thank you!
NotMax
@M. Bouffant
The other phrase is what was a similar commonplace from a different strip. Obscure reference now but not completely forgotten.
M. Bouffant
Learned something today; I remembered both phrases being from Smokey Stover.
Your second link isn’t, & I’m curious.
NotMax
@M. Bouffant
Here’s the page with some info about Squirrel Cage from which the images came.
The second linked image above is the much, much more contemporary Zippy the Pinhead.