{"id":182,"date":"2009-03-28T04:05:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2009-03-28T04:05:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T12:05:18","slug":"friends-i-didnt-know-i-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/2009\/03\/28\/friends-i-didnt-know-i-had\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends I Didn&#8217;t Know I Had"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two weeks, I&#8217;ve heard from hundreds of new friends who have appeared out of cyberspace to inundate me with good news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sgt. Perry Gibson, fighting valiantly in Iraq, wants to share millions of Saddam&#8217;s newly-found loot with me. His rationale for keeping the money is &#8220;we found it first&#8221;. It&#8217;s good to know that the &#8220;finders keepers&#8221; rule is still in effect.<\/li>\n<li>Jim Peters asks for my urgent response to his quest to share millions from a deceased uncle who was the Director of Golf Ball Measurement in Nigeria. Said relative managed to accumulate quite a stash while measuring his balls.<\/li>\n<li>George Bogucki insists I get back to him &#8220;ASAP&#8221; on a matter of some urgency and confidentiality regarding the shipment of funds from his country to a &#8220;safe haven&#8221; in the U.S. It appears he has found several million dollars in cash misplaced during a recent coup.<\/li>\n<li>Chen Guangyuan Lili sends his &#8220;compliments of the season&#8221;. This could be the Easter season or perhaps hunting season; Chen does not specify.<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Sousse Pressons is holding a courier package for me containing another 3.2 million in U.S. funds. If I will only pay the modest excise tax and handling fee of $1,500, she&#8217;ll ship it right out.<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Smith sends a message he instructs me to &#8220;TREAT AS URGENT!!&#8221; Only my wife can get away with using that tone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To top it all off, I&#8217;ve apparently won every Internet lottery, sweepstakes, giveaway, and cash award there is! This is especially amazing, in that I&#8217;ve had virtually no luck at all winning my state&#8217;s little lotto which requires selecting only five numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Since the economy took its well-publicized nosedive, the amount of spam pouring into my inbox has doubled. This is a good indication that hard times can affect scam artists as well as honest members of society. Hey, a guy has gotta make a living!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the combination of Spam Assassin, MailWasher, and an aggressive filter means 99.9% of this junk never does make it to my inbox. Once a day, I visit a special &#8220;spam box&#8221; I&#8217;ve set up and delete the contents, consigning these hucksters to oblivion. Every so often I take a spare moment to peruse the messages before carrying out the execution. It&#8217;s sad, really, so see such creative juices go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>But spam, like taxes, will continue. And tomorrow, there will be more of both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing. In the last two weeks, I&#8217;ve heard from hundreds of new friends who have appeared out of cyberspace to inundate me with good news: Sgt. Perry Gibson, fighting&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/2009\/03\/28\/friends-i-didnt-know-i-had\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}