For those of you just joining us, a while back I got annoyed with dumb people thinking that because I had reviewed someone’s movie, that must mean I had contact information for that person. In particular, Raven-Symone’s fans seemed certain I had her e-mail address and was simply holding out on them. So I registered a fake address, symone.raven@gmail.com, and posted it here, along with a clear disclaimer indicating it was NOT her actual address. I did this with the sure knowledge that people would write to it anyway. Which of course they did.

Over time, the address got passed around the Internet without my disclaimer, which means a lot of the people writing to “Raven” now are doing so in good faith, having no reason to know it’s not her real address. Those people we mock not for writing to Raven, but for doing so in such a hilarious and illiterate fashion.

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If you like to read about illness and vomiting, you’ll definitely want to check out “Coming Up,” which is this week’s “Snide Remarks” Classic. (We’re spotlighting one every Wednesday this year in celebration of the column’s 10th anniversary.) The column is #145 and was published Jan. 26, 2001. Keep that date in mind — just a couple months after the notorious 2000 presidential election — because one of the jokes refers to it.

The 10th anniversary graphic to the right is a new addition. I put it together a couple weeks ago. (You can click it to see a larger version.) Originally, my plan was to make the same grinning face for the 2007 photo and put them side by side. But every shot I took looked awful. My eyes would squint up, or my chins would multiply, or my mouth would look crooked. That bug-eyed, large-mouthed expression is best left to very thin faces, which I had in 1996, when the original photo was taken, but which I do not have now. So my vanity got the best of me and I went a different route, which was to look bad on purpose. The resulting similarity to the comedy and tragedy masks, pointed out by a commenter last week, is but a blessed coincidence.