<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Robert Martin <<a href="mailto:unclebob@objectmentor.com">unclebob@objectmentor.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">January 8, 2009 9:06:46 AM CST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>Fwd: oh no</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:objectmentor@objectmentor.com">objectmentor@objectmentor.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><div><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff"><span class="535171319-07012009">Proof that we will not experience a shortage of idiots.</span></font></div><div><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br></span></font><b><u><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br><br>ME FIRST<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></u></b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: 'Marker Felt'; "><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Marker Felt'; "><img id="EC_MA1.1229397557" height="810" width="604" src="cid:55A88D0C13144371A9DDC5520E14B803@PC1"></span></font><b><u><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="6"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 24pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br><br><br>And the SURGEON GENERAL says . .<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></u></b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: 'Marker Felt'; "><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Marker Felt'; "><img id="EC_MA2.1229397557" height="567" width="599" src="cid:AC2A6D3F70944618AE8F89EE7E9CAC75@PC1"></span></font><b><u><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br><br><br>Diversionary tactic.<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></u></b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: 'Marker Felt'; "><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Marker Felt'; "><img id="EC_MA3.1229397557" height="478" width="804" src="cid:DA3775E78A6A4C32B79B52D96FA33FF8@PC1"></span></font><b><u><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br><br><br>Words of Wisdom.<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></u></b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: 'Marker Felt'; "><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Marker Felt'; "><img id="EC_MA4.1229397557" height="396" width="272" src="cid:A53CE9F703B4408FA8BCC3D53F97E022@PC1"></span></font><b><u><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br><br><br>A fortune to remember.<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></u></b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br><br></span></font><b><font face="Tahoma" color="green" size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: green; font-family: Tahoma; "><br><br>There may have been times when I may have;<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Disturbed you,<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Troubled you,<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Pestered you,<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Irritated you,<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Bugged you<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><b><font face="Tahoma" color="green" size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: green; font-family: Tahoma; ">,<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; ">or<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><b><font face="Tahoma" color="green" size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: green; font-family: Tahoma; "><br>Got on your nerves with all the emails I send,<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>So today I just wanna tell you that...<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "><br><br><br><br><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Marker Felt'; "><br></span></font><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Marker Felt'; "><img id="EC_MA24.1229397557" height="257" width="284" src="cid:092146014FA64FC880B927A55F86385D@PC1"></span></font><b><i><font face="Tahoma" color="green" size="7"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 36pt; color: green; font-style: italic; font-family: Tahoma; "><br>I PLAN TO CONTINUE !!!!!!<span class="EC_apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></i></b><font face="Marker Felt" color="black" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; 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