Thou Hath Spam

This was in my Spam folder earlier;  I wish these con artists would at least include a photo of scantily clad "themselves" as they used to do.

Gmail gives this warning:

This message seems dangerous

Similar messages were used to steal people's personal information. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information.'

Thanks, Gmail.  I knew that, but I appreciate you reminding not just me, but any other doofus out there.

Here are the addresses and hopefully the web crawlers will pick them up and the spammers will get spammed.

pekmrf1975@dreamhostps.com

reply-to:    krasotkakla@in-mybox.com


Hello!

Thou'll probably be surprised by the message.

"Thou'll"??? I guess that would be a Biblical contraction? 

I just begin acquainted with the Internet. It seems I open the wicket that was not known.

And what a sticky wicket I suspect you have!  I'd say you also need to acquaint yourself with some better English.

For me, this new and it seems me that I already enough adult for this!

I see where this is headed. You're hopin' I'm a perv and that you are counting on me wanting to hook up with some total stranger on the 'net, am I right?  

I start to feel that I am not catching up with pace of the world that is around .I decided to keep up! And try use modern technologies for communications!

"Modern technologies for communications"?  What have you BEEN using, carrier pigeons?  Semaphores?  Smoke signals?  I'd say a phone is still considered a modern technology?  I think what you mean is using modern tech to con someone, am I right? Of course I am.

I will get to the point! I live in Russia! My city is called "Penza". What country do you live in?

I live in Nunya, Dambidnezz.

I 'm forty eight years old! I'm not here for joking.I 'm interested in personal acquaintance and begin of an serious relationship!I really hope thou'll answer me.

Well, 48 isn't too young for me, but I like a woman with a good sense of humor, so I'd hope you'd be in for some joking. I'm not into a serious relationship right now, so....There's that Biblical contraction again, not sure whether to be annoyed or amused.  

My emotional state does not allow me to start writing a lot at once.Cause I still feel little tight.

"Emotional state".  Hmmm....is that another code word for "mental illness"? Because trust me, I've dated a few crazy women and have had more than enough of THAT to last the rest of this lifetime and a couple more.

Although, if you're still feeling a little "tight", then you might just be a drunk.  It's a hard pass on that, too.

I guarantee that you'll see my more confident and informative letter only in case you answer to this one!Wait your thy reaction!

"Confident and informative"?  Is THAT a code phrase for information about how you don't like the sex with Russian men and you'll send me some nekkid pictures of yourself if I'll only reply...and give you my bank routing number?

Thou willst hath to waiteth the longest of times, I'm afraid. You can read my reaction here -- if you find it after getting a taste of your spam crap.

Well, That's ONE Way

To restart the motor in-flight.  I wonder what happened to make his engine stop, if he managed to get it restarted and if he made it down safely.

What I'd really like to know is just how he managed to climb over that wing strut, what with the enormous testicles he must possess.

Pilot restarting a stalled propeller (1960s) pic.twitter.com/qTnhL6y6f5

— Cool History (@history2cool) October 30, 2019

Tip of the Iceberg

The Shadow Knows

NASA Blew It

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Just think, NASA had a chance to shoot Hillary into outer space and blew it.

The "outer" the better, of course.

Horrifying Odds/Shocking Statistics

I was reading an article online with the local classic rock station on and the radio jock starting talking about odds of things happening.  I wasn't paying much attention, but he mentioned the odds of winning the lottery, then went on with other long odds of things happening to you.  It wasn't until the last bit of information he mentioned that my ears perked up.

I did not remember all the numbers, but I went to see the odds of playing the lottery. From Wonderopolis:

In a lottery in which you pick 6 numbers from a possible pool of 49 numbers, your chances of winning the jackpot (correctly choosing all 6 numbers drawn) are 1 in 13,983,816. That's 1 shot in almost 14 million.

If you were to buy one lottery ticket each week in such a scenario, you could expect to win once every 269,000 years.

That's pretty good odds compared to the Mega Millions jackpot. According to Wikipedia the odds of hitting a jackpot on that game are 302,575,350 to 1.

Of course, if you want a little better odds than that, then you can play Powerball, which according to Wiki has odds of "only" 1 in 292,201,338 of winning the big prize.

I don't remember all the categories - just the last couple - the radio jock brought up, but northjersey.com claims that you have a much better chance of being killed by a vending machine 112 million to one - than winning either the Powerball or Mega Millions.  They also say it's a much better bet that an asteroid will hit the Earth, 1-75,000.  Also, the article says the odds of finding a four-leaf clover are 1-10,000 and being hit by lightning 1 in 15,300.

I wonder what the odds are of being hit by lightning AND an asteroid while looking for a four-leaf clover?

Never mind.

Anyway, the radio jock went on with some odds I found distressing and unlike the other millions to one odds, I remembered these.  He said the odds of a man cheating on his wife were 1 in 5.  That upset me for some reason, even though I knew that was pretty accurate.  I'm just proud that when I was married, I was one of the four faithful guys.

The other stat that bothered me was in the same category, namely that 1 in 7.5 women cheated on their husbands.  I'm certain that my ex was one of those 6.5 faithful women.

Which brings me to something about that last stat;  just exactly how does one cheat with .5 of a person, half a woman? Would that be the top half?  Just guessing, but I'd say it would have to be the bottom half to really fall under the definition of cheating, but that's just my twisted mind.  Whats even more twisted is the thought of the woman being half a woman vertically...split right down the middle 

I guess that could be the case, more than the top/bottom scenarios.  After all, the odds of a woman having conjoined twins is 1-200,000....and if they had been separated, and a man cheated with one of the twins, that technically would be the point 5 of a woman, right?

I guess if a guy cheated with BOTH of the still-joined twins, that would skew the statistics, right?  Would you count that as one or TWO of that 7.5 figure?

What's really horrifying is me thinking about stuff like this.  Trust me, the odds of me doing THAT is pretty much a sure thing.