His career is on the skids but he's still a star in the eyes of NYU students. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
WHENEVER an apocalypse rears its ugly head, you can be sure Nic Cage will make an appearance.
Most of the disasters he's in are his own direct-to-video movies, but every now and then his face pops up on an email that brings the world to its knees.
His latest starring role is the result of a "reply all" accident at New York University.
It started when student Max Wiseltier hit the wrong button when he replied to a message sent by the bursar's office to the university's 39,979 students reminding them to fill out a tax form.
What he wanted to do was forward the email to his mum, with the message "do you want me to do this?". But he hit "reply all" instead. He quickly sent an apology email - "SORRY!!!!!! Gmail switched my reply to reply all!" - but by then it was too late.
His mistake had exposed the fatal flaw in NYU's email system: anyone could reply all.
The Replyallcalypse was born and soon people started using the email thread to ask all sorts of things, like:
- Does anyone have a pencil I could borrow?
- Would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses, or 1 horse sized duck?
- Does anyone have a copy of the movie Good Burger?
- Does anybody want to be my friend?
- Is Professor Rosenblatt still having office hours at 10.45? I'm really struggling with this paper.
Nic Cage, as NYU's 40,000 students saw him. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
And then came the photo of Nic Cage.
This led to desperate pleas for the out-of-control chain to end and for everyone to "SHUT THE F*** UP".
The best of the Reply Alls can be seen on BuzzFeed
NYU authorities deleted the chain, with David Vogelsang, of NYU's Student Resource Centre, saying he was to blame for the madness:
"I'm the culprit behind the blunder. I was assisting the Bursar with an email message and in populating one of the SRC Listserves did not realize the list I was using was one that allowed for responses and thus the 'replyallcalypse'".
"This morning I deleted everyone on the list. ITS had disabled around midnight, but there were so many that responded, emails were still in the que. Thanks to ITS, the que was cleared and the listserve deleted. We are monitoring for any residual emails."
The last time Cage appeared in an email disaster was six months ago, when an unlucky job seeker attached a photo of him looking wild-eyed and crazy instead of her CV.
Some people think Nic Cage isn't an acceptable CV. Those people are wrong. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
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