[FRIAM] Idle question

[Gillian Densmore]

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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