The Away Message Archive

by Adam Kotsko

This is a collection of some of my personal favorite away messages for AOL Instant Messenger.

  • Jesus died for your sins. Vote Republican.
  • God's will is no excuse.
  • Jesus died so that you could clean up and move to the suburbs.
  • Jesus died so that you could feel guilty about sex.
  • Life is too short to spend it listening to Creed.
  • Forget Jesus: packed with peanuts, Snickers really satisfies.
  • I'm having fun and being myself.
  • I'm sick and tired of being objectified by women who only want to use me emotionally.
  • Every day an in every way, I am getting better and better.
  • I am bored by anodyne inanities.
  • I'm not dead, I'm just very badly burned
  • Dave Matthews is a Nazi. (Original concept stolen from Michael Schaefer)
  • Whenever people remember my name and I don't remember theirs, I don't feel bad. I just think to myself, "Well, of course he remembered my name. There's only one of me, but there are so many of them."
  • I used to be smart, but now I'm just stupid.
  • I'm quietly judging you.
  • Hey, ladies, if your man ever goes buck wild, I'm available.
  • I'm immanatizing the eschaton right now.
  • Never apologize; never explain.
  • Vengeance is thine, saith the Lord.
  • Voices tell me I'm the shit.
  • I am wearied of the superficial omniscience of encyclopedic scholars.
  • I heard Michael Stype is gay.
  • I'm saving myself for my second marriage.
  • I'm coping with my crippling drug addiction right now.
  • I took the best crap today: write to me and I'll tell you all about it.
  • Thank you, Mario, but our princess is in another castle.
  • Go ahead: wreck your life. That might be good.
  • I'm searching for the historical Jesus right now.
  • I am pushed to the limit by inane vituperation.
  • When planning your life, don't forget to consider total failure as an option.
  • %n is perhaps the most prolific serial killer in history.