Not only has Citigroup's Lucy Gao's now-famous birthday party e-mail been doing the rounds, but so has a tongue-in-cheek e-mail response to her from an intern at Dresdner Kleinwort. Here it is:

'To Lucy Gao

Hi There,

The Interns at Dresdner Kleinwort were recently forwarded an email regarding your 21st birthday celebrations. We would like to extend our congratulations to you upon reaching this milestone age. Did you get any lovely gifts ?

I have been thinking about organising a function at the Ritz myself as I will be 22 in the near future. I was wondering if you could inform me of your opinions as to the levels of service and quality of your experience at the Ritz. Was it a good night ? Also do you have any photos of the event ?

How was the Ritz champagne and cake ? I imagine it is expensive so I would have thought it would be of the highest quality ? Also how strict is the dress code ? Was anyone refused entry for not being upper class enough ?

I am also somewhat confused by the different arrival times. Is this a requirement of the Ritz that large groups must be split to arrive at different times for private functions such as your birthday ? Or is this merely some sort of ranking system of your friends and acquaintances ?

My final question pertains to the Ritz cutlery....I bet this is top shelf quality cutlery, yes ? I was wondering how easy you think it'd be to steal a few sets as I'd love to have some in my flat.....While I'd like to think I'm very upper class, I'm actually a right pikey!'.

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