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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I got that list from the Scrabble website.

My best Q in recent memory was Quinine. First word of the game, too, so I got the bonus for using all my letters. I also got challenged on it, so my opponent had to eat a turn. This opponent thought I was bluffing when I said, "quinine is an ingredient in tonic water and also a treatment for malaria." Imagine the disappointment when the dictionary said exactly the same thing.

My most recent Scrabble game was not my best. Although I won by a large margin, I never quite got over the disappointment of not being able to use "slut, " with which I would have opened had I drawn the low letter.

My brother has been banned from all family Scrabble games due to a propensity for cheating.

I gave my sister the mega-board for Christmas last year. She says games take about 4 hours now.

"Zebu" on a triple word score almost never happened because I didn't remember that "U - S" was a word. My sister said that she tried very hard to keep a straight face while I was trying to figure out how to salvage the word.

[patentparanyc]

Okay, PLF you can suck it it is a link to A Socialite's Life but it one relevant to this board. Hair dye for your hair down there. Your Betty. Sorry--I think the guy who writes for this site is funny; and he updates constantly...

http://socialitelife.com/2007/01/11/...down_there.php

[ltl/fb]

I get this weird spam that says stuff like:

As a man the soldiers roared aloud and surged towards us.
go. I say no resoundingly to a myth manifest as reality. Iron John
you?
conversation you will be no more than a grease spot on the floor?
thing?
Good little time machine. Time mover, slower, halter, stopper-
decoration -if you did not allow for the propulsion at the back. This
Youre a good guy, Tremearne. My heartiest thanks.
Ask questions if you have any because this is your last chance,
beneath him. The thudding of quick strikes like some terrible machine

and then has a (blocked, but I un-blocked one to see it) image of drug prices. There doesn't even seem to be anything to click on -- is this because my spam blocker or whatever is working, or because they are just ineffective spammers?

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I get this weird spam that says stuff like:

As a man the soldiers roared aloud and surged towards us.
go. I say no resoundingly to a myth manifest as reality. Iron John
you?
conversation you will be no more than a grease spot on the floor?
thing?
Good little time machine. Time mover, slower, halter, stopper-
decoration -if you did not allow for the propulsion at the back. This
Youre a good guy, Tremearne. My heartiest thanks.
Ask questions if you have any because this is your last chance,
beneath him. The thudding of quick strikes like some terrible machine

and then has a (blocked, but I un-blocked one to see it) image of drug prices. There doesn't even seem to be anything to click on -- is this because my spam blocker or whatever is working, or because they are just ineffective spammers?

I'd say they were pretty damn effective spammers; not only did you read it, you redistributed it to a larger audience. Mazeltov!

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
I'd say they were pretty damn effective spammers; not only did you read it, you redistributed it to a larger audience. Mazeltov!

Pookie, this would be an excellent example of who you would use your invention on, the original sender.

Take heart fringe, at least it isn't a scam from Nigeria asking for you to facilitate the transfer of millions of dollars.

I love NY myspace links for the men of NY

http://ybf.blogspot.com/2007/01/myspace-jumpoffs.html

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
I'd say they were pretty damn effective spammers; not only did you read it, you redistributed it to a larger audience. Mazeltov!

Yeah, but I didn't spread the marketing part. So they are stymied. Stymied!!! I just think it's weird.

[NotFromHere]

The Defense Department is warning its American contractor employees about a new espionage threat seemingly straight from Hollywood: It discovered Canadian coins with tiny radio-frequency transmitters hidden inside.

In a U.S. government report, the department said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada.

Top suspects, according to intelligence and technology experts: China, Russia or even France — all said to actively run espionage operations inside Canada with enough sophistication to produce such technology.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said it knew nothing about the coins.

Link. Seems to me like it would be too easy to spend. Then wouldn't they be tracking the wrong people?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Yeah, but I didn't spread the marketing part. So they are stymied. Stymied!!! I just think it's weird.

I really don't get the goal of those things. Who would buy drugs from a company that is so clearly working some scam?

On the other hand I would like it if spammers would send ads for discount bacon or desserts and stuff likethat.

[Adder]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I get this weird spam that says stuff like:

As a man the soldiers roared aloud and surged towards us.
go. I say no resoundingly to a myth manifest as reality. Iron John
you?
conversation you will be no more than a grease spot on the floor?
thing?
Good little time machine. Time mover, slower, halter, stopper-
decoration -if you did not allow for the propulsion at the back. This
Youre a good guy, Tremearne. My heartiest thanks.
Ask questions if you have any because this is your last chance,
beneath him. The thudding of quick strikes like some terrible machine

and then has a (blocked, but I un-blocked one to see it) image of drug prices. There doesn't even seem to be anything to click on -- is this because my spam blocker or whatever is working, or because they are just ineffective spammers?

At the risk of responding too seriously, your average spam filter compares the ratios of "spam words" (e.g. viagra, etc.) to other words in the email. In order to get around this, spammers now throuw in a lot of other meaningless text, sometimes harvested randomly from web pages, so they they don't go over the spam ratio and make it into your inbox.

Another method (which it sounds like they used here) is to put their ad in an image, so that it also gets by the filter.

These two techniques have led to a lot more spam in my work email inbox over the last few years. Bastards.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Adder
At the risk of responding too seriously, your average spam filter compares the ratios of "spam words" (e.g. viagra, etc.) to other words in the email. In order to get around this, spammers now through in a lot of other meaningless text, sometimes harvested randomly from web pages, so they they dont' go over the spam ratio and make it into your inbox.

Another method (which it sounds like they used here) is to put their ad in an image, so that it also gets by the filter.

These two techniques have led to a lot more spam in my work email inbox over the last few years. Bastards.

THERE WAS NO WAY TO CONTACT THEM.

It did go into my spambox, not my inbox. So it wasn't really successful. It just seemed pointless because there didn't appear to be a way to buy stuff from them.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I got that list from the Scrabble website.

My best Q in recent memory was Quinine. First word of the game, too, so I got the bonus for using all my letters. I also got challenged on it, so my opponent had to eat a turn. This opponent thought I was bluffing when I said, "quinine is an ingredient in tonic water and also a treatment for malaria." Imagine the disappointment when the dictionary said exactly the same thing.

My most recent Scrabble game was not my best. Although I won by a large margin, I never quite got over the disappointment of not being able to use "slut, " with which I would have opened had I drawn the low letter.

Oh, next time we are in your neighborhood, it is SO ON.

Silly people saying those things were not words have obviously not spent the kind of quality time with the Scrabble Dictionary most members of the Diva household have.

tm

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
THERE WAS NO WAY TO CONTACT THEM.

It did go into my spambox, not my inbox. So it wasn't really successful. It just seemed pointless because there didn't appear to be a way to buy stuff from them.

Most of them are just checking to see if you have a working e-mail account. If it gets kicked back as an unused or expired account, your name gets taken off the gigantic database. Otherwise, crap'll keep coming.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
THERE WAS NO WAY TO CONTACT THEM.

It did go into my spambox, not my inbox. So it wasn't really successful. It just seemed pointless because there didn't appear to be a way to buy stuff from them.

why are you trying to contact a viagra company again?

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
why are you trying to contact a viagra company again?

I think this would have been better via PM for you.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
I think this would have been better via PM for you.

Another elephant in the room.

Awk.

Ward.