a thousand times and ten thousand times over!
I still think it’s weird to see deer on campus. I suppose I’ll get used to it.
Actually a lot of weirdness going on today. I’ll link to some of the more … interesting … political stories down below, but first, the text of a spam email I got today:
Subject: [SPAM] How one can become a terrorist?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:05:22 -0500
hello our potential customer
We would like to introduce our new-born site, where you can shop around most wanted and needed items in your life.
Our weapon section has wide range of hard-to-find machine guns, silencers, armour-piercing ammos and others.
First of all, let\’s check our 3 top-selling items:
1. Russian surface-to-air missle SA-14 \”Gremlin\” (upgraded analog of SS-16 \”Strela\”) from our supplies in Kazakhstan.
Due to high demand, it takes about 4 weeks to backorder that item.
Weight is 10,2 kg., lenght – 1427 mm. You can make a huge party and you can have tons of fun launching your \”Gremlin\” with your buddies.
2. Israeli bestselling submashine-gun \”Tavor\” 5.56\” (upgraded analog of 7.65\” \”Uzi\”), comes with 2 full clips of standart ammo + bonus one clip of armour-piercing ammo.
3. Russian booby trap made in 5 versions:
- a bottle of Jim Beam (200 grammes of C4 inside),
- a can of Budlight beer (150 grammes of C4 inside),
- a Barbie-doll (100 grammes of C4 inside),
- a cell phone (50 grammes of C4 inside),
- a lighter Zippo (25 grammes of C4 insid
You can take one with you to the school or college and have alot of fun with your buddies. Buy more than 10 pieces of booby traps, and we upgrade C4 to C4+ for free. (C4+ can not be detected in airports or any other areas).
Also we have our Dutch-based shop where you can buy some drugs to make your life more wonderful and funny. We have wide selection of Ganzha, Crack, both synthetic and natural Heroin.
And our prices are affordables for everyone.
If you want to buy anything from us, just visit our site, contact administrator and get full price-list. We accept all major credit cards, wire transfers and money orders.
Please ask for details if you want to use Western Union or Moneygram money transfers.
You thought the bottle of Jim Bean with C4 was going to be the best part of the email, but actually no, it’s this:
P.S. Due to our government laws all items from our shop can be sold only to 18+ aged people. We can ask you for age verification before shipping.
Honestly, I don’t know what to say.
Then on to political weirdness… I’ve been a bit lax in following some of what’s been going on lately, what with the grad school and all, so maybe these stories are old news, but they took me rather unawares:
Republican Senate candidate in Oklahoma takes on ‘rampant lesbianism’: In the tape released by the campaign of Brad Carson, the Democratic candidate, Coburn says a campaign worker from Coalgate told him that “lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they’ll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that’s happened to us?
Ummm, ok. And in Pennsylvania, Nader off the ballot after a judge found “thousands of fraudulent signatures including ‘Mickey Mouse’ and ‘Fred Flintstone’.
“… describing Mr Nader’s petitions as “rife with forgeries”, Judge James Gardner Colins said that fewer than 19,000 of the more than 51,000 signatures Mr Nader’s supporters submitted were valid.
“‘I am compelled to emphasise that this signature-gathering process was the most deceitful and fraudulent exercise ever perpetrated upon this court,’ Judge Colins said in a 15-page ruling that followed a two-week review in multiple courtrooms across the state. ‘The conduct of the candidates, through their representatives (not their attorneys), shocks the conscience of the court,’ he said.”
And of course, there’s the sexual harrassment suit filed against Bill O’Reilly, detailing his extremely, extremely creepy phone calls: here. Actually, the content is not inherently that creepy, but imagining Bill O’Reilly saying it… it might change your impression of the man forever after, so be warned.
And that concludes my weirdness roundup for today. And now, back to “studying”.
October 14th, 2004 at 12:30 am
wow, that is exceedingly weird. in a major way.
i had a really weird dream this evening when i fell asleep reading “the course of modern jewish history” which was totally unrelated to jewish history, but involved my apartment expanding constantly and exponentially like the universe, and eventually containing a small powerplant, several aisles of a grocery store, a bike path, and a drop-off veterinarian’s office (as in, you opened up a large dog statue and put your sick dog inside, whereupon it was sucked into the office..).
and i had to cook food for everyone who was riding bikes through my bedroom, and i didn’t know how many of them were vegetarians, and my can opener split cans in half lengthwise instead of just opening the top, and the food in the cans also expanded constantly and exponentially after opening.
it was really weird, to say the least.
but it seems that truth can be stranger than fiction….