At least, I got a couple of emails from a legitimate British company doing some sort of photo shoot today. Two different people; I assume that they were giving the wrong email address, or something. In flagrant disregard of apparent Internet protocol I did not immediately roll with it for the entertainment value, mostly because I am not actually an asshole* and these people are trying to run a business. I merely told them nicely that they had the wrong address, they said sorry, and it was all good.
Although — and this is what makes it interesting — I saw a photo of the dude that they thought that they had, and danged if the guy didn’t look a bit like me, and a bit like my dad. The hair in particular; I recognized the hairstyle right away. I guess a branch of my paternal line moved to England instead of America, back in the day? Wouldn’t surprise me: as Robert Anton Wilson noted, the English love the Irish, as long as we’re not actually in Ireland.
OK. There was nothing more earth-shattering than that.
Moe Lane
*No, really! At least not to people who didn’t take a slap at me first. Don’t start nothing, won’t be nothing, and all that.
“In flagrant disregard of apparent Internet protocol I did not immediately roll with it for the entertainment value…”
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As your internet attorney I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you’ll need the cocaine. A tape recorder for special music. I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit. You won’t need much, just a tiny taste. Acapulco shirts. Get the hell out of Maryland for at least 48 hours. And we’re going to have to arm ourselves, to the teeth!
Of course. Bat Country.
Had a similar thing happen to me, right as I was getting ready to move out of an apartment. An apartment manager for a building in the nearby city emailed me saying my application for rental had been approved. Which was weird, since I hadn’t applied there and I was moving out of state anyway. I worried I was the target of some scammers, but quickly figured out that she had just sent the email to me in error because of a two letter swap in my first name. Turns out that there was a distant relation in town with nearly the same name.