ENTOMOLOGISTS working at London’s Natural History Museum have been having a quiet giggle over a message sent by one of their colleagues to a company called Tradewind Equipment and later forwarded round the entomology department.
With the subject line “Re: Bargain List of Heavy Equipment”, the message reads: “Gentlemen, Thank you for your list of Caterpillar spare parts. Unfortunately, the compiler of your mailing list has forgotten that searching the web for references to ‘Caterpillar’ brings up not only users of heavy equipment but also researchers on immature insects. Any caterpillar spare parts that I need are very small indeed. I shall be grateful if you would remove me from your list.”…
