SAN FRANCISCO - In what has to be one of the oddest e-mail exchanges between a journalist and an elected official, San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly borrowed a line from a funny Jack Nicholson movie to tell San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. (Chuck) Nevius to get lost.

The fun started around noon last Friday when Nevius sent this strange e-mail to Daly.

"From: Nevius, CW

Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:58:12 -0700

To: Chris Daly

Subject: cwn

Hi Chris,

Just a heads up. I am going to ding you for the zoo hearing yesterday.

It didn't look good to limit the public comment, nor to cut off the first speaker. I understand that you were trying to get to your afternoon session about black flight from the city, but even some of those who spoke said they'd had enough hearings, they wanted some action. While that is an important topic, so is the zoo and disappointed to see you didn't give it a full hearing, even though it has been discussed before.

Will also mention your call to get Mark Sanchez out of the race. With Sierra Club and Mark Leno endorsements, it seems to me his support is not as feeble as you suggested.

I am sending you this as an effort at responsible journalism.

Ethically, you should always give a subject a chance to state his side. I wish you'd done the same before writing that I was a liar.

Chuck."

Here's what the controversial Daly, who has been known to fabricate some political whoppers of his own (especially ones targeted for Mayor Gavin Newsom), e-mailed back to Nevius:

"From: Chris Daly

Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 12:26 PM

To: Nevius, CW

Subject: Re: cwn

Responsible journalism? Go sell crazy somewhere else."

Daly then embedded a YouTube clip showing the scene from Nicholson's movie, "As good as it gets," where the actor speaks the line: ‘Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here' just to round out his point to the columnist.

Read the entire exchange and more on the supervisor's blog at: http://www.chrisdaly.org/