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Anecdote – Online Dating? Part 3

He’s back! Back in August I first posted on this employment ad respondent and then just a month later he emailed me again. I hadn’t heard a peep out of him for 2 months when out of the blue I received another email. This time he wasn’t inquiring about a position, but it seems I have made it onto his distribution list for garbage emails.

I have received several emails (more than I care to count) about the latest sick child that AOL will donate 32ยข for every email forwarded to Microsoft will pay you $245 for every email you forward.

You know, this is the glamorous side of sourcing that you just don’t read about.

Doin’ Time On The North Side

Minnesota is not only a beautiful state to live in, we apparently have a popular federal prisons up here too. Jeffrey Skilling of Enron “fame” is going to do his time up here. According to the Pioneer Press, we have had some other infamous prisoners in the state:

  • Former television evangelist Jim Bakker (convicted of bilking followers)
  • Richard Miller, the first FBI agent convicted of spying
  • Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, terrorist linked to Osama bin Laden
  • Presidential fringe candidate Lyndon LaRouche (fraud, tax evasion)
  • Comedian Tim Allen (cocaine trafficking in his early 20s)

I don’t think that list is going to make it to the Chamber of Commerce literature.