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A form of letter or other writing where the least amount of personalization has been made via circling multiple choices or fill-in-the-blanks. The blanks are often names or dates as these are elements that are impossible to make uniform. For example a letter might start "Dear [ ], we were happy to receive your opinions on [ ]" so that the blanks can be filled in and customized with the correct name and information later.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Top Gear|The Big Book of Top Gear]]'' includes a parody form letter for ''Daily Mail'' readers to use every time they want to complain about the show, with checkboxes for things like "I was [disgusted/enraged/sickened/aroused] to see [Jeremy/James/That girl]..." and so on.▼
▲* ''[[Top Gear|The Big Book of Top Gear]]'' includes a parody form letter for Daily Mail readers to use every time they want to complain about the show, with checkboxes for things like "I was [disgusted/enraged/sickened/aroused] to see [Jeremy/James/That girl]..." and so on.
* In ''[[Discworld]]'', Corporal Carrot doesn't seem to grasp the concept of form letters as he leads the new Night Watch recruits in taking the oath:
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* In ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'', Greg uses a form with blanks to write his thank you notes. It's not very personal.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Barney has a form letter he leaves to girls who he sleeps with and then walks out on. At one point, he cannot remember the girls name and simply fills in "Resident".
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'''Resident''': Barney... Who the hell is Barney? }}
** Also, in one episode Marshall rereads an old ''Mad Libs'' book where every word he's filled in is some form of "fart". He still finds it pretty funny.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The "[http://www.bastichlabz.org/~tigger/TechHumor/bonehead.txt Standardized Bonehead Reply Form]{{Dead link}}" to clueless people on the Net uses this format.
* A [http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt form letter detailing common objections] to suggested methods of fighting [[Spammer|spam]] has widely circulated on [[Slashdot]]'s comments section and other forums.
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* [[Steve Martin]]'s [http://laughingsquid.com/steve-martin-personalized-form-letter-for-fans/ stock fan letter reply].
** [[Robert A. Heinlein]] also had a [http://io9.com/5048215/robert-heinleins-bizarre-fan-mail-response-letter checkbox letter] that he used for responses to fan mail.
* Saxton Hale from ''[[
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* Back in [[The Seventies]] when the Generic "brand" first became popular, there was a parody "Generic Greeting Card". It looked like the standard generic style on the outside, reading GREETING CARD, and on the inside there was a list of checkoffs with boxes [Happy Birthday / Happy Anniversary / Congratulations / Hello / etc.]
* There are lots of these in ''[[Private Eye]]'', in the form of apologies from papers. For example, in a year when news about youth anorexia and obesity had been circulating, the apology would end with the note, "For God's sake, [stop/keep] eating."
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