A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the idea of putting together a list of useless gifts. I found another entry:
I couldn’t make this stuff up, folks.
Month: August 2002
John M. Ford wrote this stunning poem about September 11. Go read it. Now.
I’m thinking of putting together a web page of Useless Gift Ideas. Here’s one that would go on it.
Isn’t that just ENTIRELY too cool?
A spammer who sends out 10,000,000 e-mail messages per week can expect approximately a 0.1% rate of return to his spam, or approximately 10,000 replies per week.
There are 10,080 minutes in a week. Thus proving, once again, that there’s a sucker born every minute. 🙂
Came across this in Teresa Neilsen Hayden’s journal, and couldn’t resist passing it along.
http://www.yourish.com/archives/2002/july29-aug3_2002.html#2002073101
Read Teresa’s comments afterwards: