Today the Nigerian scam got a little original. First sentences: “Pardon me for contacting you through this medium and in this manner without any prior introduction. This is due to circumstances beyond my control. I had to bribe the prison attendants to secretly allow me open an email address from the computer in their office.” Why the attendants have a computer in their office is left unexplained.
Wasn’t there a song about Horn and Hardart’s Automat? Well, a successor has made an appearance in Washington, which I would hardly call a hotbed of retail experimentation, but maybe I’m wrong.
I find this hard to believe; pumas and panthers running wild in the UK? In fact, when I read the story in the Times of London, I thought they were having me on. But the same story shows up in the BBC, so now I don’t know what to think. Fossilized dinosaur footprints, now that I can get a handle on, but big cats on Dartmoor?