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archive for May 2006

spam revisited [AKA "why do they even bother?"]
20 May 2006

a “what happened next?”  story.

earlier this morning i heard an enthusiastic knocking at the door.
“who is it?”  - i shouted, rubbing my engorged nostrils eagerly, in anticipation of an exciting visitor
“it’s someone you know”  - came the cheery reply.
“really?”  - i shouted cleverly  - “i don’t recognise the voice.  where are you from?”

“it’s someone [...]

i’m in the money! i’m in the money! [three times over]
20 May 2006

woohoo! - well, after all these years of being down on my luck it seems like things have finally taken a change for the better.

last week i received an email notification that i’d won forty million odd euros on the “dutch national lottery” [in spite of not even having bought a ticket!].  then earlier [...]

o cruel morpheus!
05 May 2006

well, i must say it came as a bit of a shock to get a sudden phonecall, out of the blue from howie - the guitarist in my former band nobody’s heroes last night. but i took it all in my stride, like you do in these circumstances. though i had difficulty [...]