Was it when VHS went out of style, and you had to buy all your movies again on DVD? Was it the time(s) you never got the rebate you mailed away for?
He said, 'Well, Mom, I want to read if the surprise comes in the box or whether you have to mail away for it.' That's how precocious he was".
Mr. Hogue had mailed away for the course when he was 15 and attending a military school in Tennessee, finding himself unable to tote heavy rifles for artillery drills.
Especially at the end of a long day, when the weight of his double life gets the best of him, one gets the feeling that he might like to pack himself into one of those cartons and get himself mailed away, straight to stardom.
If you're rich, you'll probably be down there e-mailing away furiously, demanding to know why your AOL Time Warner stock just hit $3.
Perhaps the strangest thing about Lala is a delusional, yet legally required, request that participants delete digital copies of music from the CDs they mail away in swaps.
Artworks by Mr. Hamilton and others were designed to be given away, mailed out or pasted up in the streets, overturning accepted notions of the fine arts while demanding new kinds of participation from audiences.
"If there was no money order," he told a judge, "I would throw the mail away.
"You're just an e-mail away from making a difference in somebody's attitude," Mr. Bush said.
And when it happens, as in the El Paso-Kinder Morgan deal, it is only a misstep or an embarrassing e-mail away from liability or another public relations disaster.
