[FRIAM] Idle question

[Gillian Densmore]

And nick you know why pirates can speak so well? that's because they be a
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 8:36 AM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Welll nick you did you hear about the pickey skelton shopper? You could
> say he has a bone to pick with you.
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:30 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://lmgtfy.com/?q=james+veitch
>>
>> On 10/16/19 10:26 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>> > Dear Fellow Friamers,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Has anybody ever tried to turn the tables on a Nigerian Prince
>> Scammer?  So,
>> > I agree that you are going send me a million dollars, and I agree that I
>> > have to, say, send you $1000 dollars, to facilitate the transfer, but I
>> ask
>> > you, the scammer, first to send ME a check for $100 dollars to
>> establish the
>> > validity of your bank account, before I send you my thousand?
>> Defectors all
>> > the way down?  In the end, I am offering to send you penny in order to
>> > receive a dime.  The whole thing collapses when there are no smaller
>> > denominations.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Did any of you hear that marvelous This American Life episode in which
>> the
>> > bored homeowner decided to respond to the Carpet Cleaning cold caller,
>> by
>> > asking, in a tentative, nervous sort of way, if the carpet cleaner could
>> > clean blood.  Yes. "I mean, human blood?" Uh, yes.  And when assured
>> that it
>> > could, "Could he clean blood off WALLS?".  And when assured on that
>> point,
>> > too, could the carpet cleaner come NOW!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The police officer who appeared at his door, after seeing that there
>> was in
>> > fact no blood, arrested the home owner.  When he asked why, the officer
>> > said, "I don't know; we'll figure something out in the car."
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Yes.  I know.  I need to get a life.
>>
>> --
>> ☣ uǝlƃ
>>
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