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Posted by RaJ on April 13th, 2007
Aside: yes, this is post #3 for today. No, it’s not normal for me. I blame yesterday’s Brain Wash. Your monkeys may vary.
In her comment on this morning’s scam-mocking post, new blog feiend Luisa Perkins said something that triggered a Shrinking World Episode (SWE) for me:
Well, RaJ, you and I have a friend in common! I, too, have heard from Miss Cilla, as well as from countless friends and relatives of hers. Very exciting.
I’m kind of amazed when I see how people’s paths cross in unexpected ways. I’m even more amazed when I think: Cilla’s friends* and relatives are also sending emails? That’s crazy! I picture those lowlife losers poor unfortunates with all our that money to steal recover, tirelessly sending out emails trolling for victims begging for help. And probably they’re like, sitting in their squalid deposed and/or dead ruler refugee hovels, working on laptops, not even realizing they’re all doing the same thing! Maybe they should get together and help each other.
Then they could stop bothering us!
*sigh* Right; as if.
I had another SWE this morning, also related to a spam email received earlier this week. I wanted to share that email with you but wasn’t sure how to do so; now I know. Here’s the central part of the message with a couple words censored to maintain a certain… illusion.
Note: while the remainder of this post is safe for work (and home), parental discretion is advised.
Subject: Feel and smell more sexy to women
If you want to -
- Change your life;
- Save from your problems and hang-ups;
- Become more sexually attractive for ***** girls;
- Meet more beautiful women, without any problems;
- Grab all the attention;
- Increase your self-confidence;
- Get approached by ******* lezzies far more often;
- Make a fantastic impression every day and hour -
You have a chance to do this now!
I found another blogger who’d received the same email - plus a follow-up message - and written a post about them. When you read her post and its comments (#9 is mine) maybe you’ll see why I thought my receiving this particular spam was extra special.
All that was just the setup for this morning’s SWE. After finding Annika’s weblog via the Great and Powerful Oz Google™ I stayed a few minutes, looked around, and saw this really funny post about trying to take pictures of her son’s incoming tooth. As I read the comments on that post I saw a name I recognized: ~Sheryl, one of several blog feiends I “met” during last year’s NaBloPoMo. No. Way! I thought. I know her!
There’s like, 50 bazillion bloggers on the interweb, right? A Google search leads me to a bizarre spam email post on a weblog I’ve never before seen, and one post later on the same weblog I read a comment from someone I “know,” whose weblog is linked on my own blogroll.
That’s what I call a Shrinking World Episode.
* We’ll pretend she has friends and/or feiends.
April 13th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
I have found that it is difficult for me to find a blog that doesn’t have a comment on it somewhere from someone who is either the author of a blog I read or a commenter on a blog I read. This blogging thing is crazy.
April 13th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
(Greetings!) It is crazy. Maybe there’s really only a few dozen people doing all this posting and commenting.
April 13th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Three in one day? Can I just hire you to post on my blog because I can’t keep up with it and you have more material than you know what to do with. I obviously need to get my email address on some kind of “sucker” list so I can get more interesting spam.
April 15th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
The Interweb is getting as smaller everyday.
You know, if you think about it, isn’t blogging like some sort of virtual parallel entity within mans world. As people die off, new potential bloggers are born to replace them. The unfortunate part about that is the many years of waiting till the potential bloggers to get old enough to blog. Its just too bad that some of the spammers are the ones moving on so the newbies can get started.
OK…enough thinking for tonight. It is starting to hurt….
May 1st, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I realize that I am more than fashionably late to this party, but oh well.
Annika… Radioactive….Radioactive… Annika.
There now you have been formally introduced.
Oh and woo whoo! I’m a Redioactve Feiend - life is good!
May 1st, 2007 at 1:00 pm
“More than fashionably late” just means you’re more than fashionable; thanks.