Amherst is about 12 miles east of me. It's the center of the Five College Area -- University of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Hampshire College, Amherst College. Everybody older than 16 has a masters degree in Sanskrit or a PhD in Womens Studies.
Education doesn't help.
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The Daily Hampshire Gazette
(Northampton Massachusetts USA)
Tuesday 13 February 2007
Police Log
* An Amherst woman reported to police Friday at 11:27 a.m. that she lost more than $14,000 after she sent cash to Nigeria as part of a scam in which she had received postal orders, cashed them at her bank and then sent a portion of the money to the foreign country. Police are warning residents about potential scams involving fake money orders.
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Not as good as This. Nothing is as good as This.
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duh. I have seen better ones. I dont want to tell you who i work for (I would be embarrassed) but I have seen some Scams in my days in numerous variations
http://www.scienceshareware.com/ebay/nigeria-scam.htm
and
http://www.for-the-birds.net/2005/05/nigerian_ebay_scam.php
and my personal favourite
http://reviews.ebay.com/Scam-Listings-Romanian-Scammers-Fake-Invoices_W0QQugidZ10000000002285856
Did you click on the THIS at the bottom and see my old New Yorker article about the most pathetically gullible mark who ever got hosed by a Nigerian e-mail scam? This poor guy fell in so deep that HE, the VICTIM, ended up going to U.S. federal prison!
If you are employed by the Swiss Mafia, be embarrassed.
If you are employed by any government agency which tries to save and rescue people from the Swiss Mafia, don't be embarrassed.
Not very far from you, I know this lady who works for the government police anti-corruption squad, and when Corruption Business is slow, she catches bald, fat Blackmailers. I think she is really cool.
The only mysterious part of the Amherst story is how this woman worked up the nerve to phone the Amherst police and explain to a total stranger how she opened an e-mail from another total stranger, and then went to the bank to withdraw her life savings and send it to Nigeria.
I can understand when this happens to men. You can hear them muttering as they send the $$$$$$ to a stranger in Nigeria:
"She thinks I'm stupid. She's always telling me I'm stupid. Well, I'll show HER! Wait till she looks in our bank account and see how I got us $12,000,000 !!! She won't think I'm so stupid THEN!"
No, I am not working for the Mafia and not for the Government. I am embarrassed because the company gets mentioned in Farenheit 911.
Whatr I like about those Scams is when you can open their eyes and make the clients realize that something is fishy and see their reaction. I just love that. They usually fall out of the sky.
this is the best PizzaQ anybody's given me: What company that you work for was mentioned in Fahrenheit 911? Hmmmmmmmmmmm
At first i thought you meant Fahrenheit 451 and that really sent me into Deep Confusion. I don't see you as Montag ... but maybe ... what book would you memorize?
How much Pizza do i win when i figure it out? If I think I got it, i will pvt e-mail u.
Hmm. Very good question. Either Dante's Inferno or Macbeth (complicated but not too long).
No Pizza, but i think I could send you some goodies from CH if you crack this one ;)
I think I'd like to memorize, and then recite at the slightest request, either Twain's "Puddnhead Wilson," Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness," or
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Mason, Herbert. Gilgamesh. A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason with an afterword by John H. Marks. A Mentor Book. N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1970.
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I'm pretty damn sure this is the translation by a Harvard student whose best friend, a wonderful athlete, suddenly died. Mason turned his loss and grief into a grad-school project, and was subsidized by his dead friend's parents, so the translation would be a memorial for their lost child.
Why does everyone have to die? Why do the young and the beautiful have to die? Is there no way -- by prayer, by the magic of the gods -- to escape Death, or be rescued from Death?
We're sort of "taught" that old books aren't "modern," they don't understand life as cleverly and sophisticatedly as we moderns do. Old people were just stupid and primitive.
"Gilgamesh" -- oh maybe from 3000 BC or earlier, from Mesopotamia (Iraq) -- is so frighteningly startlingly "modern."
Love. Friendship. Loss. Grief. Frustration. Confusion. Sacrifice.
And finally: The Meaning of Life. Build your city walls higher and thicker.
I'd love to recite "Gilgamesh" around the campfire in the woods.
did u know that among actors / Schauspieler , Macbeth has an old tradition as a bad-luck play, they don't like to do it? (Actors are wildly superstitious.)
There's a rational reason for the bad-luck reputation.
Shakespearean touring companies have to resort to "Macbeth" when the audience has stopped buying tickets to every other play in the repertoire, the audience is bored with or not interested in "As You Like It" or "Henry V Part II" or "Lear" or "The Tempest."
So there they are, broke, stranded in some dorp outside Liverpool, bankruptcy looming. So they drag out "Macbeth." Short. Violent. Nasty. Revenge. Dead bodies all over the stage. Betrayal. Insanity. Witches brewing Witches' Brew and foretelling Doom. It's the Last Chance to get enough money to afford the train ride back to London.
Check out the section of "Mephisto" when Claus Maria Brandauer talks about his new National Socialist re-interpretation of "Hamlet."
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