Why do most MCSE certified people feel the need to wave this around so much?

In my experience, it's because their skillset is so poor, and they have such a minimal understanding of how computers work that they're actually impressed that they have this certification, nevermind that it's basically bought.

The exact same phenomenon existed years ago when Novell was king of the hill. All the CNAs liked to make sure you knew that they didn't know a thing. That wasn't true of the CNEs, or it was at least less true, but the same doesn't seem to be accurate of the MCSA/MCSE folks.

Find the plain text send option.

At least most of them now default to replying underneath quoted text, except for what looks like one big one, which I'm assuming is Outlook. Now if we could just force people to edit their quotations.