As my laziness soared to even greater heights this morning i found myself googling a description for the Out Of Office reply service for MS Outlook. Shudder the thought that i come up with the 2 liner myself. In my search I stumbled across various lists of humourous out of office replies and I felt i should share some of my favourites with you.

- I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position.

- I’m not really out of the office. I’m just ignoring you.

- Sorry to have missed you but I am at the doctors having my brain removed so that I may be promoted to management

- Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first ten words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.

- The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again. (Love this one)

- Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system. You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.

- Hi! I’m busy negotiating the salary for my new job. Don’t bother to leave me any messages.

- I’ve run away to join a different circus.

and finally the classic…

- You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn’t have received anything at all.

Now, back to my search for those elusive 2 lines!