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How banal is my life?

Aug 6, 2007 4:15AM PDT

It is soooooooo banal that even my spam is lame: I just now got my first solicitation for a "Free iPhone!!!"

And Yahoo showed me a banner ad from some outfit that will help me to get an online degree. One of the many career choices was "Manangement".

I tell ya, I get no respect.

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Manangement??
Aug 6, 2007 4:47AM PDT
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Oh my
Aug 6, 2007 5:15AM PDT

There are TONS of grammar errors on that page. No way would I click any of the links!

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I wonder if English is the writer's original tongue?
Aug 6, 2007 6:55AM PDT

I get many emails from Grin "reputable" Grin companies... I ask you, could you turn down this opportunity?

Dear employee ,
Our Worldwide Company is looking looking for new employees on several vacancies.
We suggest a chance for you to find financial Independence right now.
Only our International can suggest you to gather a good earnings in a short period of time.
You do not need to spend any sum of money and
we do not ask you to give us with your bank account requisites!
We are engaged in absolutely legal activity and working in our International
you can reach profession growth at a stable job .
We are in search of representatives from any point of the world globe .
Typical earnings of our employee is 3450-4500$ per month, but you can earn much more.

Here is the top 10 of our representatives? salaries:

Top 10 employees
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Per month:
1.45750 $
2.42185 $
3.38590 $
4.25808 euro
5.32000 $
6.15700 GBP
7.27200 $
8.24300 $
9.22750 $
10.18730 $

It is easy to be in ours Top 10!
Everything is simple enough and it depends only of you.
We are waiting the inventive approach and purposefulness from our employee .
You can work full time or part time.
You determine the timetable of you work at our International .
We pay you for result . The best regional representative becomes
the chief of regional office of our company and grts a full social packet
and benefit at a rate of 50 % from his annual salary .
A lot of of our employee have made excellent career, received full financial independence and
have come to life all their ideas in a reality less than in 2-3 years of working in our company.
The preference is given to employees with knowledge of foreign languages.

If you are interested in our offer please send us the following information:
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1) Full name
2) Address of residing
3) Phone numbers
4) Languages
5) Part time job/Full time

Please send this information to our email: **************

Please specify in the subject line:
Application for the local rep position. Number 100711

If you are not interested in our offer or you received this email by
mistake please reply with Unsubscribe in subject line and specify all
your emails addresses to ***************
We apologize In advance

Yours faithfully,
Colin Scowcroft


What's really fun is the google results when you search for the name Colin Scowcroft. Did someone really need to be told this was a sucker's bet? I guess so from the looks of these results.

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Colin Scowcroft is a
Aug 6, 2007 12:15PM PDT

common name in East Timor; thought you would know that. Or is it West Irian? Krakatoa, east of Java?

The Scowcrofts are so proud of little Colin- first in his family to complete English class.

I did find one fault in the piece: "We apologize In advance" belonged at the beginning. Happy

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we can help.
Aug 6, 2007 1:28PM PDT

give us your email address and we can sign you up for lots and lots of "free stuff", LOL.