micmic66
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posted on December 12, 2003 03:24:06 PM new
Dear valued eBay member,
It has come to our attention that your eBay billing information records are out of date . This requiers you to update your billing information with no delay in order to avoid any future problems with eBay's online service.
Please click here to update your billing records.
Once you have updated your account records, your eBay session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. However failure to update may result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.
Thank you for your time!
Marry Kimmel,
eBay Billing Department team.
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stopwhining
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posted on December 12, 2003 03:46:41 PM new
mary does not know how to spell 'requires'.
-sig file -------The thrill is gone!!
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on December 12, 2003 03:50:29 PM new
Remember, any email purporting to be from eBay that has a clickable link is to be treated as hostile.
Even real email from eBay.
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"What does the 'O' stand for?"
"Nothing."
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max40
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posted on December 12, 2003 04:13:41 PM new
Mary doesn't even know how to spell Mary.
Life is not a dress rehearsal
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bunnicula
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posted on December 12, 2003 04:49:54 PM new
The email is bogus, obviously. However, the name isn't necessarily an indication of a mis-spelling. As a Children's Librarian, I have been noticing over the past 20 years that more and more people are mangling perfectly good names in some sort of desperate attempt to make them "special."
I have seen "Mary" spelled the way the sender of that email did.
I have seen Karen spelled "Karan," "Karin," "Caren," & "Caran."
I have seen Jonathan spelled "Johnathon," and "Jonathin."
I have seen Richard spelled "Richherd."
Every time we start a new story time session, there are sure to be at least 5 kids whose names have been "personalized." Totally ridiculous.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
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micmic66
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posted on December 12, 2003 04:54:59 PM new
bunnicula, do ya watch much college Football or basketball??? Not only are the spellings becoming "tweaked" but there is around 50 or so names that are nothing more than made up right there in the delivery room....
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sanmar
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posted on December 12, 2003 05:07:22 PM new
It really doesn't make a hill of beans whether Marry can spell or not. The Damx thing a phony & should be sent to [email protected].
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Roadsmith
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posted on December 12, 2003 06:37:21 PM new
I was just talking to a friend the other day about the football players' names! First names of Priest?! Lawyer?! I think the made-up names are a bit better than those two I just mentioned. Someone should help those mommies in delivery to come up with a spellable, prounceable name. Antwan? Antwon? Antowan? Gimme a break. They are saddled with a problem name the rest of their lives.
Utah is awful for the made-up names, usually combining daddy and mommy's names. The worst we ever saw was a wonderful female harpist for the Utah Symphony name ShruDeLi Ownby. When I told friends about it there, they thought I was kidding--until one day I actually met ShruDeLi's sister! She told me where the name came from, but it escapes me now.
I think names like that work okay in the local culture, whatever your local culture is, but as soon as you try to move out into the big wide world, they label you or your parents as ignorant. I know I sound harsh.
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"In order to avoid poverty, just do three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and don't have that child until you're at least 20 years old. Only 8% of people who do all three of these things wind up poor, but a staggering 79% of those who fail to do them wind up in poverty." ~William Galston
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sanmar
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posted on December 12, 2003 06:42:31 PM new
I had a cousin (deceased) whose name was Missouri Jones, she was born in Des Moines, IA. Go figure. The funny part is she married John Bailey & lived in the suburbs of KC, MO most of her life.
[ edited by sanmar on Dec 12, 2003 06:43 PM ]
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micmic66
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posted on December 12, 2003 06:59:19 PM new
Tyreek....Tamal....Daon....Jameer....Antywane.... Dawan....Tyrese
Where the hell were these names when I was a kid?
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photosensitive
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posted on December 12, 2003 07:08:48 PM new
When I was a child my aunt had a friend called Margie. One day I heard her husband call her Oleo. Later I asked my aunt why he teased her like that and she said, "Her name is Oleo Margarine." She was born just about the time Oleo was introduced and her mother heard the name and thought it sounded pretty but had no idea what it was. All her friends called her Margie but her family always called her Oleo.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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yellowstone
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posted on December 12, 2003 07:47:44 PM new
I have some friends that named their daughter Justice and the name really fits her. I couldn't see calling her anything else. It would be kinda funny if when she grows up if she becomes a judge or how about a peace officer, then she would be the Justice of the peace.
I once knew a guy that was named Cash Dollar. His dad worked at a bank.
And then there was the poor girl I knew in middle school that was named Dianne Rea. Boy oh boy her parents weren't thinking when they named her.
As far as the email goes, I got the same email and I just deleted it, knowing that it was BS.
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sanmar
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posted on December 13, 2003 10:48:24 AM new
I received the identical message last night. Immediately sent it to [email protected]. Later, rec'd email from eBay safe harbor stating this was not sent by eBay.
[ edited by sanmar on Dec 13, 2003 12:33 PM ]
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tomwiii
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posted on December 13, 2003 02:48:53 PM new
There was Richard Blauer in me Gym class...
My college roommate's girlfrinnd was Velvet Jacque...& of course, her father was Harry Jacque. Everytime I saw her I got a picture in my mind of The Fugs ("Round and round..."
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/vidrat/
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cramer
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posted on December 13, 2003 03:13:18 PM new
In a small town up north...not lying...Harry Butts, and very good friends of mine named Reeher pronounced Rear. My friend named his daughter Rosie.....
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micmic66
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posted on December 13, 2003 03:56:34 PM new
Check This Out!
http://www.thenamemachine.com/result.cfm?Name=Tyreek&Gender=male
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Roadsmith
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posted on December 13, 2003 04:35:53 PM new
Micmic: That is a Verrrry Cool site! Thanks.
One of my favorite business names was a shop in Las Vegas called Harry Brown Furs. An orthopedic surgeon named Dr. Bender. Landscaping firm called Maas and Grassli. I have a whole file of these, kept over the last 30 years. We live in a strange and wonderful world.
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"In order to avoid poverty, just do three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and don't have that child until you're at least 20 years old. Only 8% of people who do all three of these things wind up poor, but a staggering 79% of those who fail to do them wind up in poverty." ~William Galston
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stonecold613
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posted on December 13, 2003 09:39:02 PM new
Be sure to fill in all of the info asked for in the link. But make sure to fill it in with all bogus info.
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Vickrose
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posted on December 15, 2003 07:21:38 PM new
I also recieved this bogus email and I sent right away to spoof Ebay and was told it was a fraud. They sure are after me alot. They already gotton my sister about a month ago.It took her several days to correct all her mistakes and the fraud they caused her.
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pcarlson
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posted on December 15, 2003 07:29:54 PM new
I've rcvd several of these fraud emails in various forms. They say to update your records, threaten suspension and one was disguised as a contest to win a car. I dont even bother to send them to ebay anymore, I just delete them.
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sanmar
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posted on December 15, 2003 07:34:51 PM new
AQbout strange names; A wealthy Texas Oilman whose last name was Hogg named his daughter "Ima" & that is no bull!
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JapErTOn
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posted on December 15, 2003 07:37:13 PM new
I used to get my shots from Dr J. A. B. Weston.
I had to get funky shots to go visit my parents in Saudi. This was in the UK.
I think I still have my shot record somewhere...
J
sorry...deeply off topic!
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All the monkeys aren't in the zoo,
Every day you meet quite a few,
So you see it's all up to you.
You can be better than you are,
You could be swingin' on a star
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JapErTOn
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posted on December 15, 2003 07:39:51 PM new
QUOTE
Tyreek....Tamal....Daon....Jameer....Antywane.... Dawan....Tyrese
Where the hell were these names when I was a kid?
ENDQUOTE
Mimic, it is clear you were not a military brat!
J
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pcarlson
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posted on December 15, 2003 08:10:07 PM new
Some people chose their own names, like the guy who lives in my county who changed his name to Vlad Dracul. I'm a police
dispatcher and everytime I have to say his name on the radio it's hard to keep my voice steady.
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micmic66
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posted on December 16, 2003 05:05:10 AM new
JapErTOn, Sir no sir!
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photosensitive
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posted on December 16, 2003 05:35:06 AM new
Did any of you get the eBay spoof that tells you to fill out a security form or "If not, your account may behave unnormally and errors may occur without notification."?
I am surprised no one makes a utility to spot grammatical and spelling errors in spoof emails! They might be able to catch a few more innocents in their nets.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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cta
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posted on December 16, 2003 12:09:27 PM new
I've been behaving "unnormally" for years.
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horsey88
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posted on December 16, 2003 12:38:38 PM new
I knew a lady named Virginia.
Everyone called her Virgin for short.
But they didn't call her that for long.
[ edited by horsey88 on Dec 16, 2003 02:16 PM ]
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cta
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posted on December 16, 2003 02:08:51 PM new
Speaking of Virginna or actually Virginia..and very embarrassing to a 13 year old girl... I once did a report on Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia - however, my unintentional slip entitled the report "Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virgina". That was a very long time ago and you can see that I have never forgotten it. I think it scarred me for life. However, maybe his notes on that subject matter would have been a lot more interesting than his notes on Virginia.
[ edited by cta on Dec 16, 2003 02:10 PM ]
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