WHEN YOU CARE ENOUGH...

Some of you may have friends who care enough to send you one of those great Maya Angelou cards from the Hallmark collection ("A river, a rock and a tree/Sorry you caught me with the nanny/On our anniversary"). Me, I get cards like this:

So far, so good. But then there's the inside:



Wow. Actually, after looking at this card's high production values, someone needs to say something else: "Your Photoshop Skills Frighten Me!"

For the record, I received this as a joke -- I think. That day's pretty much a blur. The scary thing? These cards were actually printed by my sincere but somewhat uptight alma mater, in an attempt to discourage binge drinking. (The pretty bridge you can barely see is a famous campus landmark, but that's another story for another day.)

But picture distributing a box of these to your average dorm of college freshmen, and imagine the howls of laughter. It's almost enough to drive a well-meaning college administrator to the bottle.