Hate mail.Overcome by the desire to say "I have nothing but contempt for you" to that special someone? Well, if you can't bring yourself to do it, you can have someone do it for you, thanks to PoisonPen.com. The new online service of Poison Pen Letters A poison pen letter is a letter or note containing unpleasant, abusive or malicious statements or accusations about the recipient or a third party. It is usually sent anonymously. Poison pen letters are usually composed and sent to upset the recipient. , which has been offering its anti-Hallmark cards since 1987, allows the bitter and dejected de·ject·ed adj. Being in low spirits; depressed. See Synonyms at depressed. de·ject  ed·ly adv. to send an anonymous message expressing their sentiments by
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Poison Pen cards express a sweet sentiment on the outside, but the reader opening one of these malign missives gets a changeup change·up n. Baseball A pitch intended to look like a fastball, which actually approaches the plate at a slow speed, thereby causing the batter to swing prematurely. [Alteration of change-of-pace.] . For example, one card (just in time for Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. ) reads, "You're the one," on the outside. Inside the message is completed: "The wrong one." "When I was about 11 years old, everybody in the class got a Valentine's Day card but me," said Alan Harris, president and founder of Venice-based Poison Pen. "That's where this all came from." He said the company also offers cards to salvage salvage, in maritime law, the compensation that the owner must pay for having his vessel or cargo saved from peril, such as shipwreck, fire, or capture by an enemy. Salvage is awarded only when the party making the rescue was under no legal obligation to do so. relationships, but sometimes that takes tough talk. "You can't do it in a sappy way. You have to do it in a way that makes a person take note," he said. "And in this world it's really very difficult to make a person take note." |
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