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Bottom line, don't mess with the Dutch
That's why they say it ain't much if it ain't Dutch
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> Shipwrecked drug smugglers survive shark-infested waters by clinging to cocaine bails...
Hmmm...I see a product here. Let me start a crowd-funding campaign -- maybe I can get the Columbian cartel to invest!
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I think I've only ever heard it spoken, never seen it written.
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OriginalGriff wrote: A limerick from QI A limerick from Leigh Mercer.
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The bustard’s an exquisite fowl,
With minimal reason to growl:
He escapes what would be
Illegitimacy
By grace of a fortunate vowel.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yet the police were uninterested when I tried to report an attempted murder.
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That's unkind - maybe they were just ravens.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Or omen pigeons?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well, stone the crows!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I was wondering about that when I played God of War and there's a special move named Murder of Crows.
And so I looked up why it's called that.
Well, let's make this a bit educational as well.
Why is it a murder of crows? - Big Think[^]
And if you reach the end you might go for the much nicer and more deserved "charity of crows"
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cool link!
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Very cool link.
Thanks I enjoyed it.
I like words and I like crows as well.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Did you cawl the police?
/ravi
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Did the crows get there by caaar?
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Did you supply corvideo evidence?
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Did you have probable caws?
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Hi All,
I have been ticked off my some scally trying to use my account to buy stuff. Cancelled the purchases, the card, changed Amazon, eBay & Paypal passwords and email account. The one thing I am left thinking over is how they managed to buy stuff on Amazon and it not appear in my purchases or my cancelled orders, I think if they got in to my email they could have deleted the mails from Amazon before I saw them, if I put in the actual order number it appears(!), I have mentioned it to a human at Amazon who didn't seem bothered (well on their pay, I wouldn't be either, but)
All I can say is check your email very carefully, on a seperate device I only found it because I got a load of One Time Pass code generated on my phone!!
Glenn
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it's getting tricky,
just today got a message from paypal about scams
lot's of links in the message (how to spot fake email) that point to "epl.paypal-communication.com"
legit or not?
yeah I know, I can look up the domain name to check,
(being lazy I just trash canned it.)
but it's odd, that is one of they ways the fakes operate,
that is by having legit looking links.
so if even the companies themselves are confusing people this way,
and then telling us not to be confused this way,
can understand why less savy (or in my case possibly less lazy) can be fooled.
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generally if I see something from one of my providers that sounds legit-ish I log in (not using the email links) to check things appear normal.
on that I agree it's odd those Amazon orders didn't appear in your list.
I'd take that up with Amazon.
- and who knows, they may spot you a $10 voucher or similar if you sound unhappy (but not abusive) enough.
last time I complained about something few months back (forgot what) they did that for me.
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paypal-communication.com looks like a scam domain, NOT paypal.
The registrant is hidden by registering through MarkMonitor Inc. (The same company that registered the domain that was being pinged every 10 minutes.)
paypal.com is registered to paypal.
I can not imagine a legitimate company doing anything other then registering their domain directly - too much risk of being blackmailed for use of your own domain.
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I agree, looks wrong (well really everything looks right except those links)
it really is a legitimate looking message
(even the spelling / grammer is spot on, and it's correctly personalised)
was briefly tempted to click one of the links to see what happens
but no, been doing this too long to even do that just for fun
(no banking/shopping passwords are saved in my browser anyway, but...)
as mentioned:
if "paypal" et.al send me a message that sounds important I'll log on to paypal.com directly (not even via bookmark), NEVER via an email link, NEVER
...even when I can see that link address in the email status bar
... - dunno if for instance they can pad those with say <bs> chars etc, don't wanna find out.
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Microsoft is notorious for doing this. Just this hour I had to go to Microsoft.com to get something work related, and it redirects me to "login.microsoftonline.com". Now I have to stop what I'm doing and verify that "microsoftonline.com" is actually "microsoft".
Hey MICROSOFT! Are you stupid? Why do you do that?
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Oh, and in addition to microsoftonline.com, the page loads stuff from "office.com" and "mem.gfx.ms" and "s-microsoft.com".
Apparently these teams were not aware that Microsoft already has a domain "microsoft.com" for them to use.
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