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Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:57:22 -0800

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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:17:57 -0800

WARNING WARNING WARNING

I received this from a friend today. I could not find it on Snopes or anywhere else, but there were plenty of other sites posting about it. Assuming that this is a real threat, I am posting this to help warn you...

Tell all your contacts on your list not to accept Daniel Roberto Fiallo Ferranti neither a video of Bush, it's a hacker, goes into your computer and your contacts and steals your password on hotmail, yahoo, etc, if your friends accept it, you will get it too. Send this message to all of them, it's important, just do copy and paste"

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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:35:20 -0700

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Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:45:33 -0700

BE WARY OF BEST BUY

Two weeks ago I bought an iPod for my girlfriend from bestbuy.com.

I used a CJ (Commission Junction) affiliate link on my site to place the order, so I got 1% commission, as well as the $12.50 special savings that they were giving, and I opted to pick up the order from the store.

All well and good, until 4 days later when the iPod goes faulty and I try to return it...

At the store where I picked it up, they insisted that they had to credit me for the original purchase and that I would have to pick up a new unit from the floor.

Well it's not on sale in the store - only online!

They insisted that bestbuy.com is a different entity, so they can't exchange the item or give the same price in the store.

And so, since my girlfriend was travelling back to the UK that evening, I had to pay full price for a replacement iPod, which I was very reluctant to do. I even spoke to a senior manager at the store and he would not give me the same price. All I wanted to do was to return a faulty iPod and to get an identical one that worked.

So, not only am I down by $12.50 plus 6% Sales Tax, my CJ sale got reversed, and my credit card company refused to accept the payment (see below) so I had to use a different card, costing me an extra 1.5%.

I have good credit, however the previous evening I had tried to book a flight on British Airways for my girlfriend to return in July, and the site would not accept my card. Even when I was on the phone to Capital One the site still refused and the agent could not get it to go through. So in the end I had to use a different card for that purchase as well - $1,320 without my 1.5% rebate - not a lot but it still hurts.

Within 10 mins of leaving Best Buy the bank called me to check on fraudalent purchases, so now the card is ok, but thanks to Best Buy I'm rather peeved... and out of pocket... well rather peeved is an understatement...

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Wed, 14 May 2008 08:07:25 -0700

NAGGING MOTHERS

Mothers look after us and care for us, but sometimes as we get older and are indeed old enough to take care of ourselves, Mothers still intervene in our lives - and often WAY TOO MUCH! This is one such story...

Hi Mom. Can I leave the kids with you tonight?

You're going out?

Yes.

With whom?

With a friend.

I don't know why you left your husband. He is such a good man.

I didn't leave him. He left me!

You let him leave you, and now you go out with anybody and nobody.

I do not go out with anybody. Can I bring over the kids?

I never left you to go out with anybody except your father.

There are lots of things that you did and I don't.

What are you hinting at?

Nothing. I just want to know if I can bring the kids over tonight.

You're going to stay the night with him?

What will your husband say if he finds out?

My EX husband. I don't think he would be bothered. From the day he left me, he probably never slept alone!

So you're going to sleep over at this loser's place?

He's not a loser.

A man who goes out with a divorced woman with children is a loser and a parasite.

I don't want to argue. Should I bring over the kids or not?

Poor children with such a mother.

Such as what?

With no stability. No wonder your husband left you.

ENOUGH !!

Don't scream at me. You probably scream at this loser too!

Now you're worried about the loser?

Ah, so you see he's a loser. I spotted him immediately.

Goodbye, mother.

Wait! Don't hang up! When are you bringing them over?

I'm not bringing them over! I'm not going out!

If you never go out, how do you expect to meet anyone?

This is just one of the new jokes posted to my Jokes For Baby Boomers lens at Squidoo. I hope you will come visit at http://www.squidoo.com/baby_boomer_jokes

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Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:06:45 -0700

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Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:07:54 -0700

This is my My Space Profile - just signed up, so not too much on there yet.
If you would like to become friends on My Space, just let me know.
It's always good to have friends.
Find me on MySpace and be my friend!

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Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:47:30 -0700

A Strange Thing Happened To Me On Sunday

I took my 7 year old daughter to the cinema to watch The Spyderwick Chronicles, last chance to see it before it disappears, never made it big over here for some reason, but it was a good movie.

Anyway, we sat in the middle of the back row, and there were only about a dozen people in the cinema in total, so it was mostly empty.

About 30 minutes before the movie ended, a man came in, walked up the aisle to the back, and started fiddling around under the seats at the end of our row. He got closer and closer to my daughter, and then asked if she could move so he could check under her seat. He said that he had lost his sunglasses and was looking for them.

Well, in digging around, he pulls something out from under the seat next to me, and says "is this your cell phone?". Yes it was! I have never had it fall out of my pocket before, and yet this stranger who was looking for his sunglasses just happened to come into our row and find it.

He never did find his sunglasses, well not there at least, but how weird that he should look right there where we were. If not for him I would have lost my cell phone.

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Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:55:06 -0700

QUASSIA - A NEW CONCEPT IN FREE WEBSITE PROMOTION
Not just another crosslinking directory, Quassia is a cross between a promotional directory and an encyclopedia of articles written by members. I think this is going to be really interesting, it's in Beta right now. Take a look... QUASSIA.COM

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Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:50:08 -0800

PLEASE SEND MONEY
So I took my 1996 Toyota Avalon in for a 130,000 mile service this morning.
Got a phone call several hours later.... this needs doing, that needs doing, the engine valves are leaking, timing chain needs replacing, blah blah blah...
Nothing major wrong, it's just things they replace every 60,000 miles.
It's going to cost $3,100 plus tax!!! That's about $3,500 - OUCH!
So whereas first thing this morning I thought I had rounded a corner and was steadily coming to grips with my financial situation - BANG back in the hole I go...
Oh well... It's back to wishing on the lottery tickets again...