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It’s (not) a long way from Tipperary

2008-04-23

4×50 Euro

Requested on April 3rd (with a regular letter), e-mail confirmation of receipt on 9th – and yesterday the money arrived on my account. :D

I’m talking about the Cashback campaign by Canon – which they handle in their Promotion Centre in Tipperary (Ireland), hence the title – for my new EOS 40D camera, and given several reports by others about periods of 6-8 or more weeks, I was quite surprised, in a positive way.
:thumbsup:

(Though it can’t balance the negative surprise caused by my tax bill, which also arrived yesterday, even remotely…)

Music Quiz 11

2008-04-22

Welcome to a new round of my music quiz, again with a few easy(?) picture riddles (3 or 4, depending on how fast they’re solved) depicting a song or band name – and I’m planning to have a music quiz regularly every week…

1.) Which song title (from which band) is this?

Musik-Quiz 11.1

Gelöst von David: “Crimson and Clover” von Tommy James and the Shondells. :clap:

2.) Welcher Liedtitel (von wem) wird hier dargestellt?

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Projekt 52 Week 17: My hobby

2008-04-22

The topic of week 17 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:

My hobby

Create a collage of several hobbies? Show my (Queen) CD collection? Photograph photography photographically? Hmm… or rather this: (click for large view)

17: My hobby

Week 17: My hobby

I like to play pool billiard myself (though I do it way too infrequently) – but not now, during the World Snooker Championships! So here’s a “real” screen shot of snooker on Eurosport – watching snooker being a hobby too, of course.


Super high-quality spam distribution

2008-04-21

“Because” of that, they send Russian spam distribution offers to German mail addresses:

здравствуй Предоставляем супер качественные Эл. Почтовую рассылку

Without punctuation marks (except for the abbreviation); Altavista and Google translate that to (not literally) something like “How do you do we offer super (high-) quality e-mail distribution”.

Bad thing is, there is still “enough” spam floating around, regardless of any such errors in form and content.
:motz:

Why can’t all spam coming from Russia be as pretty as Anghela, Nadezhda & co??

K´neip`e

2008-04-21

Bayrische`s Eck

Here an accent as apostrophe, there another accent as apostrophy – as long as there are more than necessary…

Though the pub (this is an announcement for its opening) is actually called “Bayrisch’s Eck”, if I remember correctly.

(4/2008)