This Verse May Come As A Surprise to You…

Jesse Walker | 7.6.2005 9:15 AM

"Who knew there were so many poets in Nigeria?"

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Ed Walsh 20 years ago

Someone should organize an aid concert for the Nigerian email "scammers." It could only benefit society as a whole as they thin out the population a la Cliff Clavin's buffalo theory.
mediageek 20 years ago

On a tangentially related note, NPR aired a story a couple days ago talking about how the mayor running one of the larger cities wanted to revamp the place as a tourist destination.
Stevo Darkly 20 years ago

Good day, please excuse me sir
I am the cousin of a former Nigerian minister
I have a hundred thousand dollars and fifty-three cents
That I must remove from my country, with your assistance
If you let me access an account to which it can be sent
I will gladly share with you about twenty percent

(I can't reach the link, so I hope this poem wasn't rendered stupid by whatever's there.)
Stevo Darkly 20 years ago

Oops. I found a way to access a cache of the site, and my thought has indeed been rendered stupid and superflous by what's actually there. Never mind.
smacky 20 years ago

[irony]

Gosh, Stevo, why do you have to go and waste precious internet space like that? Because redundant is good? Because good is redundant?

I hope this poem wasn't rendered stupid by whatever's there.

It was rendered stupid by you, ok??? 🙂

[/irony]
mediageek 20 years ago

ouch.

Note to self, don't cross smacky. :-p
smacky 20 years ago

mediageek,

Of course I was kidding! I love Stevo, he's one of my favorite posters. Sometimes I just can't resist the urge for a good insult (but only when it's not directed at me).
smacky 20 years ago

*sigh* Gary Gunnels would know what I'm talking about. I miss that obnoxious goon.
Stevo Darkly 20 years ago

I would send a cyberhug to smacky to confirm that her barb was not taken amiss, but the bandwidth here is too precious to expend on such trivialities. 🙂
Stevo Darkly 20 years ago

I don't think I saw any limericks.

There once was a man from Nigeria
Whose spam filled my eyes up with tearia
"Help me," he exhorted,
"Get my fortune exported!"
I DELETEd, 'cause it made me leery-a.

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