Joseph Dobbie - that email in full

Joseph Dobbie is the latest eager emailer to be the subject of global humiliation in the media because of a mail that fell into the wrong hands. If you don't know about the story, check the BBC, Times, Guardian or Mirror. It's an example of how, and who, not to chat up when you're only a few emails away from the media. Here's the email he sent in full, which I received today.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Meikle
Sent: 14 July 2006 12:35
To: David Cook; 'Nigel Clarkson'; 'Ged
Glover'; Dan Cresta; 'Jamie Lindsay'; 'Dominic Makin'; Nick Bailey;
'Adlam, John'; 'Chris Forrester'; 'Andrew Morley'
Subject: FW: how to ask a girl out (in a round about way)


This poor f*cker's life's ruined.

His phone number's on this.

Hahahaha

Let's see if he can make metro on Monday...

-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine Schrier
Sent: 14 July 2006 12:20
To: 'Dominic Winchester'; Sean Meikle; Jonathan Fowles; Hugh Griffiths;
Charlotte Wightman; Richard Desforges
Subject: FW: how to ask a girl out (in a round about way)


Oh my god!

----- Forwarded by Jane Winsall/MEC/London/Media on 11/07/2006 12:09
-----





i met this man on saturday.


-----Original Message-----
From
Sent: 11 July 2006 01:41
To: Kate Winsall
Subject: Lady of the cake





Hello Kate,


It?s joe - we met at Andrew?s party.


I hope you don?t mind me getting your e-mail address from the e-mail
that Andy sent to us all; it is a bit sneaky of me.


It was wonderful to meet you on Saturday, and I wonder if you would
consider meeting me for coffee sometime; maybe at the Tate Modern?


OK. This is where my common sense is telling me to stop? keep it simple
and

positive joe.


And the probability of me listening to that voice? Experience has taught
me that it is not worth putting up a fight; I will end up giving in to
the part of me that never wants to find itself shaking its head and
muttering ?if only?'


This is the part where I throw caution to the wind; the part where I
listen

to my heart and remember that I should live my life as an exultation and
revel in the opportunity to try; the part where I refuse to apologize
for who I am; the part where I trust that the lady I met on Saturday
night is, as I suspect, able to see sincerity where others would see
clich .


I am fortunate enough to have been able to collect a number of special
memories. They are memories of moments that made any struggle leading up
to them worthwhile. They are memories of moments when I am struck by
something so beautiful, time stands still and all of the ugliness in the
world ceases to exist.


Your smile is the freshest of my special memories.


Regardless of whether we see each other again, I will use it as I do my
other special memories. I will call on it when I am disheartened or low.
I will hold it in my heart when I need inspiration. I will keep it with 
me for moments when I need to find a smile of my own.


I am unsure of all my motives for sharing this with you and, if I am
honest, not ready to examine them too closely. However, I know that it
makes me feel good to believe that maybe, if you are ever upset, knowing 
that I will be keeping your smile alive might help you through.


If you are half as intelligent and aware as I believe you to be, I am
sure that you will find what I have written, in the very least, sweet.


If I am twice as lucky as I would dare to hope, you will find this note
charming and agree to contact me and arrange a date.


Either way, I trust that your reply will be candid - you told me how
much you value honesty.


One last thing, I promise that it is enormously rare for me to stray as
far

from sobriety as I managed on Saturday night.


Be safe.
Joe

Comments

[Chris Green]

It is cheesy, but it could have been sooooo much worse.

[Peter J]

And they say romance is dead. Hats off to him I say. Nutter granted, but at least he's an honest nutter.

[Lynn Malikoff-Johnston]

The trouble with all those people, all those unfeeling mortals who find it necesssary to scoff at what Joe has written is that they are incapable of feeling such depth themselves. Jealousy perhaps, or maybe even fear at confronting their own emotions-it seems to be endemic in this day and age. What the hell was wrong with the email in the first place? Are we that hardened by the current era? Good on you Joe, it's simply great to see that there are people still left in the world eloquent and feeling enough to bother writing something like this. Your critics are merely living half-lives, drone-like and subservient to the media whether that be the newspapers or TV. All power to you Joe-at least you are alive in side, unlike so many people I have come across. How nice to be alive instead of emotionally comatose. Keep up the good work. There are many who admire you out here!

[Mike Buckley]

I read about this in the Guardian and was intrigued to find out what the fuss was about so i googled it and found this site. What the hell is the fuss about? Okay, so the guy is a bit of a romantic and has sent a girl a very fruity wordy romantic email. So bloody what? It's the girl I feel sorry for. She's obvioulsy so hardened by modern 21st century coldness and oblivious to being wooed by a decent bloke that she had to send it on to freinds to see what they thought. I say good luck to you Joe. Maybe not the kind email you should send after JUST meeting a girl....more like after a coupole fo dates when you know she's interested in you, but apart from that he's just being honest.
I find it really sad how people today think that this is some kind of grounds for derision and humiliation. They are truely the sad ones....not Joe.

[Adrian]

I quite agree with the above comments. What's the big deal? I am quite proud of being a hopeless romantic myself. It might not work but why should I give in and change if that would lead me to be any less successful.

Boycott the media I say. Damn Big Brother.